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AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. VPC IPAM makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Read More for the details.

GCP – Five steps to help make your software supply chain more secure
Today, we published a new Google research report on software supply chain security because we’ve seen a sharp rise in software supply chain attacks across almost every sector —and expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. We urge all organizations to act now to improve their software supply chain security. Among the report’s […]

GCP – Best practices of Dataproc Persistent History Server
When running Apache Hadoop and Spark, it is important to tune the configs, perform cluster planning, and right-size compute. Thorough benchmarking is required to make sure the utilization and performance are optimized. In Dataproc, you can run Spark jobs in a semi-long-running cluster or ephemeral Cloud Dataproc on Google Compute Engine (DPGCE) cluster or via […]

GCP – Trust Update: December 2022
Every day, teams across Google Cloud come together to help address complex and pressing compliance, risk, and privacy requirements that enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation and innovate faster. Let’s take a look at some of our top trust and compliance-related efforts from the last few months: Combining data processing terms. In September, we […]

GCP – Google’s Virtual Desktop of the Future
Did you know that most Google employees rely on virtual desktops to get their work done? This represents a paradigm shift in client computing at Google, and was especially critical during the pandemic and the remote work revolution. We’re excited to continue enabling our employees to be productive, anywhere! This post covers the history of […]

Azure – Public preview: New Memory Optimized VM sizes – E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5
New VM sizes provide the best remote storage performance of any Azure VMs to date. You can now process more data with fewer vCPUs while potentially reducing software licensing costs. Read More for the details.

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

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports Apache Iceberg table format
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to create feature groups in the offline store in Apache Iceberg table format. The offline store contains historical ML features, organized into logical feature groups, and is used for model training and batch inference. Apache Iceberg is an open table format for very large analytic datasets such […]

AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
With the general availability of Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, customers in that region can now automate the creation, sharing, copying and retention of Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs via policies. Data Lifecycle Manager eliminates the need for complicated custom scripts to manage your EBS resources, saving you […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 65 – November 2022
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.