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GCP – Google Cloud Firewall introduces Network Firewall Policies, IAM-governed Tags and more
The network security that firewalls provide is one of the basic building blocks for a secure cloud infrastructure. We are excited to announce that three new Google Cloud Firewall features are now generally available: Global Network Firewall Policies, Regional Network Firewall Policies, and IAM-governed Tags. With these enhancements, Cloud Firewall can help you more easily […]

GCP – Exporting and analyzing billing data using BigQuery
TL;DR – The best way to analyze your billing data is to set up the billing data export to BigQuery. We’ve created an interactive tutorial to help you through the process! In this last post, we went over a few different options to analyze your Google Cloud billing data. The most powerful and comprehensive way […]

AWS – AWS Comprehend now supports synchronous processing for targeted sentiment
Amazon Comprehend customers can now extract the sentiments associated with entities from text documents in real-time using the newly released synchronous API. Targeted Sentiment synchronous API enables customers to derive granular sentiments associated with specific entities of interest such as brands or products without waiting for batch processing. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Evidently adds support for Client Side Evaluations for AWS Lambda (powered by AWS AppConfig)
Amazon CloudWatch Evidently adds support for Client Side Evaluations (CSE) for AWS Lambda, powered by AWS AppConfig. Evidently is an application performance monitoring (APM) capability that makes it easier for customers to introduce experiments and launches in their application code. Powered by AppConfig Extensions, Evidently CSE allows application developers to generate feature-evaluations in single-digit milliseconds […]

AWS – AWS Health Dashboard displays localized dates and times for Service Health events
Customers now have the option to view Service Health events on the AWS Health Dashboard in their local time and date. The AWS Health Dashboard is the single place for customers to get relevant and timely information to help manage events in progress, prepare for planned activities, and provide information on accounts and services. This feature […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 announces support for DNS resource record set permissions
Today, AWS introduced DNS resource record set permissions, enabling customers to define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) create, edit, and delete policies for individual or groups of DNS record sets within a Route 53 public or private hosted zone. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation event notifications is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of event notifications in Amazon EventBridge to the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. You can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. You can trigger actions in real-time when CloudFormation stacks or the resources within stacks are created, updated, or deleted without writing single-use custom codes or […]

AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Kazakhstan and Serbia
AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kazakhstan and Serbia. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing preview of AWS DataSync Discovery
Today, we are happy to announce the public preview of AWS DataSync Discovery. You can use DataSync Discovery to gain visibility into your on-premises storage performance and utilization, and receive automated recommendations to help simplify and accelerate your data migration to AWS. This new feature of AWS DataSync enables you to better understand your on-premises […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports definition of asset measurement units at the asset level
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports definition of asset measurement units at the asset level, enabling customers to use a single asset model for machines reporting measurements in different units. Read More for the details.