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GCP – Partnering with Health-ISAC to strengthen the European healthcare system
Last July, Google Cloud launched our ambassador partnership with the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center (Health-ISAC) and committed to working with industry leaders to better protect our healthcare ecosystem. Securing healthcare technology and data is a global challenge, and to meet it security professionals need to have better channels for sharing information and effective […]
GCP – Unlocking banking transformation with Finxact and Google Cloud
As the banking industry rapidly evolves, many incumbent financial service institutions find themselves in a bind. They must develop and launch new products and services to keep up with customer demands (and nimble new fintechs), but the core systems they use — many developed decades ago — are unable to do so with the speed […]
GCP – Firestore adds three new trigger destinations through an integration with Eventarc
Firestore triggers, commonly referred to in industry as change data capture, is a popular feature that lets you trigger custom compute logic in response to Firestore document changes. This feature is commonly utilized to replicate Firestore document changes to third-party services, notify them of changes to Firestore documents, and archive deleted Firestore documents in a […]
GCP – Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction: Creating a secure virtual classroom
A couple of years ago, Rayshun Holt, who works with Beacon of Hope in Cincinnati, Ohio, taught people newly released from correctional facilities the basics of using and navigating a computer so they could find jobs. (Beacon of Hope is an organization that helps people with criminal records find meaningful work, which has historically been […]
GCP – Generally Available: C3 VMs with Intel 4th Gen Xeon and industry-leading price-performance
Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the C3 machine series, bringing the enterprise-grade performance and reliability of the 4th Generation Intel Xeon scalable processor (code named Sapphire Rapids) to Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers — all with industry-leading price-performance. The C3 machine series is a general-purpose VM […]
GCP – Now open, new Doha cloud region set to support Qatar’s National Vision 2030
Today, at the official launch event of the new cloud region in Doha, we shared how Google Cloud investments will meet growing demand for cloud services in Qatar and the Middle East, and support Qatar’s National Vision 2030. The new Doha cloud region will help businesses and the public sector transform the country into a […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower launches 28 new proactive controls
Today we are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as AWS OpenSearch Service, AWS Auto Scaling, […]
AWS – QuickSight dashboards now available for seller reporting and insights in AWS Marketplace
Today, AWS Marketplace announced General availability of two Amazon QuickSight dashboards for AWS Marketplace sellers. Sellers can now access the billed revenue dashboard and collections & disbursements dashboard from the Insights tab of AWS Marketplace Management Portal (AMMP). Previously, sellers could access their business data via downloadable CSV reports on AMMP. Now, the sellers can […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4g Instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Canada (Central) region. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces improved end-to-end latencies for Amazon EventBridge Event Buses
Amazon EventBridge Event Buses now delivers events with lower latencies enabling you to power an even broader set of latency sensitive event-driven applications, especially in industrial and medical applications. Amazon Eventbridge delivers events up to 80% faster than before, as measured by the time an event is ingested to the first invocation attempt. Read More […]
