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AWS – Programmatically manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on AWS accounts
Today, we are making it easier for customers to view and manage enabled and disabled opt-in AWS Regions on their AWS accounts using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) and AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). We previously released the Accounts SDK that enables customers to programmatically manage both primary and alternate contact information for their […]

AWS – Workspot announces Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core
Today, Workspot announces Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core. You can now provision, deploy, and manage Workspot Cloud PCs powered by Amazon WorkSpaces Core directly from Workspot Control: your single global administration console. You can also use your existing security, PC management tools, and Security Event and Incident Management (SIEM) solutions seamlessly extending your […]

AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports publishing events to encrypted Amazon SNS topics
Amazon GameLift can now publish events to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics that have server-side encryption (SSE) enabled, for additional protection of events that carry sensitive data. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, customers can now […]

AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Ashburn, Virginia
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty data center in Ashburn, Virginia. By connecting your network to AWS at this location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Amazon EKS Anywhere
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Snow, a new deployment option that helps customers create and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS Snow Family devices. EKS Anywhere on Snow is designed to provide Kubernetes cluster provisioning and familiar operational visibility tooling for customers to manage […]

AWS – Organizations-related condition keys for IAM policies now available in AWS China Regions
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports the ability to refine permissions policies based on the organizational unit (OU) or organization ID in AWS Organizations of the principal or resource for IAM policies in the AWS China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and the AWS China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. With these new […]

GCP – Spreading a whole lot of developer love with a little help from Innovators Plus
Roses are red, love songs are haunting,But learning the cloud can be lonely and daunting.So scale up your “you”; upgrade to an “us”When you access your benefits in Innovators Plus. OK, not exactly Shakespeare. But seriously: we love our developers – every day, in fact – and what better time to say it than Valentine’s […]

GCP – TATA 1mg grows ad revenue by 700 percent with OnlineSales.ai and Google Cloud
Editor’s note: We invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. This original blog post was published by OnlineSales.ai. Please enjoy this updated entry from our partner. Tata’s online healthcare entity, […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How BigQuery helps Leverege deliver business-critical enterprise IoT solutions at scale
Introduction Leverege is a software company that enables market leaders around the globe to quickly and cost effectively build enterprise IoT applications to provide data-centric decision capability, optimize operations, improve customer experience, deliver customer value, and increase revenue. Leverege’s premier SaaS product, the Leverege IoT Stack, runs natively on Google Cloud and seamlessly integrates with […]
GCP – Connected Sheets for Looker is now generally available
Modern organizations make decisions and act based on trusted data. But to fully empower their users, it isn’t enough to simply make trusted data available. Organizations need to enable users to access that data through tools they use every day, like the ubiquitous spreadsheet. Today, we are announcing general availability of Connected Sheets for Looker, […]