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GCP – Veterans Day: Q&A with Terradepth about mapping the ocean floor, the final frontier on Earth, with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: November 11th is Veterans Day—a day for us to recognize, celebrate, and honor military veterans of the United States Armed Forces. Today, Shannon Sullivan, Director, SCS Public Sector at Google, will be having a conversation with Terradepth and its founder to learn how they are using Google Cloud to grow their business and […]

GCP – Veteran Transitioners Find Success at Google Public Sector
Making a career change can be daunting, especially if you’re transitioning from military service into the tech world. In celebration of Veterans Day, we spoke with five Googler veterans who share their experiences and offer insights for others looking to make their way into tech after active-duty service. As a member of the Google recruiting […]

GCP – Redacting PII data in Dialogflow CX with Google Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
Contact centers today handle all types of sensitive information including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Protected Health Information (PHI), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data, and other confidential information (CI) as part of their day-to-day operations. This information can make its way into call recordings, call logs, agent notes, and application logs. It may also be used […]

Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Azure Managed HSM TLS Offload Library
Azure Managed HSM now supports SSL/TLS Offload for F5 and Nginx. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kendra is now FedRAMP High Compliant
Amazon Kendra is now authorized as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Kendra reimagines enterprise search for your websites and applications so your employees and customers can easily find the content they are looking for, even when it’s scattered across multiple […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Launches New Scheduler
Today, we are excited to launch Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, expanding its current scheduling capabilities by making it simple for developers to create, execute, and manage scheduled tasks at scale. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Storage Gateway expands availability to the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region enabling customers to deploy and manage hybrid cloud storage for their on-premises workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac Instances now support Apple macOS Ventura
Starting today, customers can run Apple macOS Ventura (13.0) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. Apple macOS Ventura is the current major macOS release from Apple, and introduces multiple new capabilities and performance improvements over prior macOS versions. Apple macOS Ventura supports running Xcode versions 14.0 and later, which include the […]

AWS – Amazon ECS launches task scale-in protection
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has announced the availability of ECS task scale-in protection, a new feature that enables customers to protect long-running tasks from being terminated by scale-in events and deployments. This feature helps simplify orchestration of queue-processing asynchronous applications such as a video transcoding jobs wherein some tasks may be running […]
AWS – SageMaker JumpStart now provides TensorFlow Text Classification algorithms
Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides a new built-in algorithm for text classification: Text Classification – TensorFlow. It takes text as input and outputs probability for each of the class labels. It is a supervised learning algorithm that supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub. These pre-trained models can be fine-tuned […]