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GCP – How Anthos helps improve your platform and application security and governance
Security has become a critical component in every modern application and platform today. As IT admins try to implement security policies required to protect applications across distributed platforms, they often run into issues such as the lack of effective policy enforcement and lack of visibility into the policy violations. In addition, whenever there is a […]

GCP – Health-ISAC and Google Cloud partner to build more resilient healthcare, one threat indicator at a time
Google Cloud is committed to helping healthcare and life sciences organizations defend themselves from threats that disrupt their ability to care for patients. The pandemic showed how vulnerable this industry is to attacks, and the real-life impacts that shutting down hospital systems and affecting drug makers can have on patients and families. In July 2022, […]

GCP – Extending reality: Immersive Stream for XR is now Generally Available
Last year at Google I/O, we announced the preview of Immersive Stream for XR, which leverages Google Cloud GPUs to host, render, and stream high-quality photorealistic experiences to millions of mobile devices around the world. Today, we are excited to announce that the service is now generally available for Google Cloud customers. With Immersive Stream […]

GCP – Modernized workforce development solutions for our evolving world
State and local agencies witnessed how the pandemic transformed the way government works – creating remote and hybrid work opportunities where they did not exist before, digitizing workforce services across the country, and increasing our world’s reliance on technology. These changes continue to impact how our country’s workforce operates today. As agencies have accelerated their […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in the following six regions – Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). With auto scaling, ElastiCache for Redis automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Spain) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation announces spotlight for latest news on CloudFormation features, blogs, and workshops
Today, AWS CloudFormation adds Spotlight tab on the AWS Management Console for CloudFormation to give quick access to curated articles on CloudFormation. You can now find AWS CloudFormation articles from multiple official AWS channels at a single location. You can use this feature to discover the editor’s choice articles from the AWS team on CloudFormation. With […]

AWS – Amazon Polly launches two new Japanese NTTS voices
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kazuha and Tomoko, two new female Japanese neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances now available in AWS Region Europe (London)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, and they are built on AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure […]
GCP – Log-based Metrics in Action
Google Cloud Operations Suite provides support for hundreds of metrics across various services. In addition to thesepredefined metrics that are available, you can always report custom metrics from your applications. One of the common requests that I have heard from organizations is to look for patterns of text in their application logs and report data […]