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AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region
Starting today, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is available for use in the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces enables AWS Lambda aliases as service endpoints
On December 15 2022, AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces launched support for AWS Lambda aliases as Refactor Spaces Service endpoints. You can now use Lambda aliases with Refactor Spaces to route traffic to specific versions of a Lambda function and configure provisioned concurrency to mitigate Lambda cold starts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS now integrates with Amazon CloudWatch alarms to improve safety for deployments
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced a new feature that enables customers to add automated safeguards for Amazon ECS service rolling updates. You can now monitor and automatically react to changes during an Amazon ECS rolling update by using Amazon CloudWatch alarms. This enables you to more easily automate discovery and remediation for […]
AWS – AWS announces Systems Manager Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler, based on AWS Solutions’ Instance Scheduler. Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler provides a user interface in the console which enables you to easily configure schedules for your instances to optimize compute capacity and save costs across accounts and Regions in your Organization. […]
AWS – Service Quotas is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds labels and improves accuracy of existing labels for video
Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. On 11/23/2022, we launched an update to the machine learning model of Amazon Rekognition Labels Image to add 600 labels and improve the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We also added an ability […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Filestore Enterprise Muiltshares for GKE now generally available
When setting up storage for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment, customers can choose between block storage (Persistent Disk, or PD) or file storage (Filestore Enterprise). While both storage types are fully supported with containers on GKE including operations such as migrating containers across hosts for use cases such as upgrades or failover, Filestore Enterprise […]
GCP – IT prediction: In the future, anyone can be a developer
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: By 2025, over half of all business applications will be built by users who do not identify as professional developers […]
GCP – ICYMI: Security Talks goes deep on SolarWinds, Chrome, Zero Trust, and today’s toughest SOC challenges
Security operations teams are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges from nation-state actors turning their attention to financial crime, to rising uncertainty and potential complexities because of rapidly advancing cloud migration and IoT adoption, to the long-lamented skills shortage. Now imagine having to face this trifecta without visibility into your IT and security infrastructure because […]