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GCP – Navigate more sustainably and optimize for fuel savings with eco-friendly routing
Eco-friendly routing is now available to developers in Preview. Improving fuel efficiency can help lower your fleet’s fuel/energy usage and CO2 emissions. Starting today, you’ll have the option to enable eco-friendly routing in your web and mobile experiences. Eco-friendly routing is a feature of the new Routes API. When you enable eco-friendly routing, you can […]
GCP – Introducing Cloud Workstations: Managed and Secure Development environments in the cloud
With the unprecedented increase in remote collaboration over the last two years, development teams have had to find new ways to collaborate, driving increased demand for tools to address the productivity challenges of this new reality. This distributed way of working also introduces new security risks, such as data exfiltration — information leaving the company’s […]
GCP – Databases on Google Cloud Part 7: Managed Service for Prometheus, Serverless MongoDB Atlas and the Finale
The Best Sunday of Summer! Is it already past October? Trust me, this 7-part blog-series journey with you all has been very eventful for me and I had the most fun, experimenting with various Google Cloud databases, serverless options, fun Machine Learning use cases and what not! It was an enthralling Google Cloud Summer spread, […]
Azure – Review your VNET configurations in Switzerland North that may be affected by IP address changes
On 30 September 2023 we’re making the resource providers for Azure API Management zone redundant in each region. Read More for the details.
Azure – API versions being retired for Azure API Management
On 30 September 2023, all API versions prior to 2021-08-01 will be retired and API calls using those API versions will fail. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Google Workspace blog has moved to a new home
Keep up with all the latest news, insights, and product announcements in the world of productivity and collaboration on the new Google Workspace blog. The blog features an easier-to-read layout, enhanced visual elements, and deeper content sections for each Workspace product area — from Docs and Drive to Meet and AppSheet. The Google Cloud blog […]
AWS – Announcing certificate-based authentication for Amazon AppStream 2.0
Starting today, you can use certificate-based authentication with Amazon AppStream 2.0 fleets that are joined to Active Directory to remove the logon prompt for the domain password. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports the transfer of Elastic IP addresses between AWS accounts
Today, we are announcing Elastic IP transfer, a new Amazon VPC feature that allows you to transfer your Elastic IP addresses from one AWS Account to another, making it easier to move Elastic IP addresses during AWS Account restructuring. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Core announces Location Action to route location data from IoT devices to Amazon Location Service
AWS IoT Core announces Location Action – a capability to route latitude and longitude data from IoT devices to Amazon Location Service, making it easier for software developers to add geospatial data and location functionality to IoT applications. With this launch, you can route live location data of an IoT device to Amazon Location Service […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams adds capability to easily inspect data records in AWS Management Console
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a serverless streaming data service that makes it easy to capture, process, and store streaming data at massive scale. Data Viewer is a new capability for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams that allows viewing data records directly from AWS Management Console. As a result, you can easily inspect the data records […]