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GCP – Leading towards more trustworthy compliance through EU Codes of Conduct
Google is committed to be the best possible place for sustainable digital transformation for European organizations. Our Cloud on Europe’s terms initiative works to meet regional requirements for security, privacy, and digital sovereignty, without compromising on functionality or innovation. In support of this initiative, we are making our annual declaration of adherence to two important […]
GCP – Meet Ashish Vengsarkar, tackling some of Google Cloud’s most complex challenges by day and building New York Times crosswords in his free time
Editor’s note: Ashish Vengsarkar is a director in Google Cloud’s Global Networking group, which develops, builds and operates one of the world’s largest fiber optic networks. It is not work for a fainthearted technologist – Google’s core network carries petabit-scale traffic, with each individual optical stream delivering information at a speed of 400 gigabits per […]
GCP – Integrating ML models into production pipelines with Dataflow
Google Cloud’s Dataflow recently announced the General Availability support for Apache Beam’s generic machine learning prediction and inference transform, RunInference. In this blog, we will take a deeper dive on the transform, including: Showing the RunInference transform used with a simple model as an example, in both batch and streaming mode. Using the transform with […]
AWS – AWS announces open-sourced credentials-fetcher to simplify Microsoft AD access from Linux containers
AWS announces the general availability of the credentials-fetcher open source project. As you modernize your .NET applications to Linux containers, you no longer need to worry about Microsoft Active Directory (AD) dependency. You can use credentials-fetcher to access AD from services hosted on Linux containers using the service account authentication model. This package makes it […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled servers in Azure China
Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure Read More for the details.
AWS – AppFlow now supports Salesforce version 55.0 and additional AWS PrivateLink regions
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports Salesforce API version 55.0 which is the latest API in the Salesforce Summer ’22 release. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Macie adds ability to tune findings with allow lists, and enhances machine learning models to better identify sensitive data
We are pleased to announce a new capability to create allow lists in Amazon Macie. You can now create and use allow lists to specify text or text patterns that you don’t want Macie to report as sensitive data. For example, an allow list might include corporate addresses, names of executives, or sample data that is […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Arc-enabled servers in South Africa North
Secure, govern, and manage your hybrid servers from Azure Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances in new regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances in new regions. In April 2022, Amazon RDS for Oracle has already launched the support of M6i and R6i instances in some regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key
Create Ephemeral VMs with customer managed key encryption types for host-based encryption. Read More for the details.