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GCP – Digital and cloud skills programs for the Future Workforce launch in Australia and Thailand
Countries across the Asia Pacific region continue to launch programs to develop digital and cloud skills for the future workforce. In Australia and Thailand, Google is working with governments, not-for-profit organizations, and universities to bring development programs to enable the next generation of workers with the right digital skills. Learners at universities, and individuals supported […]

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager enables you to centrally deploy and monitor FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (CNF) across all AWS virtual private clouds (VPCs) in your AWS organization. With this release, customers now have a single firewall management solution to deploy and manage both AWS native firewalls and FortiGate CNF firewalls. Read More for the details.

Azure – Community support for Azure Functions Proxies will end on 30 September 2025
Transition to Azure API Management as soon as possible to avoid disruption to your Function applications using Proxies. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS AppConfig Agent makes feature flags and runtime configuration simpler for containers
AWS AppConfig has released an agent for container runtimes that makes the use of feature flags and runtime configuration simpler, with improved performance. Customers that use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Docker, or Kubernetes can now use the AWS AppConfig Agent to manage the calls from their containerized […]

GCP – Auditing GKE Clusters across the entire organization
Introduction Companies moving to the cloud and running containers are often looking for elasticity. The ability to scale up or down as needed, means paying only for the resources used. Using automation allows engineers to focus on applications rather than on the infrastructure. These are key features of the cloud native and managed container orchestration […]

GCP – Overcoming objections and unblocking the road to Zero Trust
Overcoming blockades and potholes that threaten to derail organizational change is key to any IT or security transformation initiative. Many security and risk leaders have made it a priority to adopt Zero Trust access models so they can deliver better user experiences and strengthen security. Yet before they can even think about change management, they […]

GCP – Monitoring GPU workloads on GKE with NVIDIA Data Center GPU Manager (DCGM)
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have become an increasingly important enterprise capability, including use cases such as product recommendations, autonomous vehicles, application personalization, and automated conversational platforms. Building and deploying ML models demand high-performance infrastructure. Using NVIDIA GPUs can greatly accelerate the training and inference system. Consequently, monitoring GPU performance metrics to understand […]

GCP – Google Cloud Biotech Acceleration Tooling
Bio-pharma organizations can now leverage quick start tools and setup scripts to begin running scalable workloads in the cloud today. This capability is a boon for research scientists and organizations in the bio-pharma space, from those developing treatments for diseases to those creating new synthetic biomaterials. Google Cloud’s solutions teams continue to shape products with […]

GCP – Improving model quality at scale with Vertex AI Model Evaluation
Typically, data scientists retrain models at regular intervals to keep them fresh and relevant. This practice may turn out to be costly if the model is trained too often or inefficient if the model training isn’t frequent enough to serve the business. Ideally, data scientists prefer to continuously evaluate the models and intentionally retrain models […]
AWS – Amazon Comprehend announces support for classification and entity extraction directly from a variety of document formats
Amazon Comprehend announced single-step APIs that customers can now use to classify and extract entities of interest from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and images. Read More for the details.