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AWS – AWS re:Post streamlines customers’ community engagement with AWS Builder ID and re:Post Linked logins
AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service that provides customers the technical guidance they need to innovate faster and improve operational efficiency with AWS services. re:Post has integrated with AWS Builder ID to provide re:Post users an additional sign-in method to join the community without an AWS account. Additionally, users can link multiple logins with […]

AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports customer-managed compute with GameLift Anywhere
The general availability (GA) of Amazon GameLift Anywhere de-couples game session management from the underlying compute resources. During the game development phase, developers need instant compute resources to deploy, test and iterate their game builds continuously. In addition, customers often have ongoing bare-metal contracts or on-premises game servers and need the flexibility to use their […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon CodeCatalyst (Preview)
Today, AWS is launching a preview of Amazon CodeCatalyst, a unified software development service that makes it faster to build and deliver software on AWS. CodeCatalyst provides software development teams with an integrated project experience that brings together the tools needed to plan, code, build, test, and deploy applications on AWS. Software teams spend significant […]

AWS – AWS Step Functions launches large-scale parallel workflows for data processing and serverless applications
AWS Step Functions expands support for iterating and processing large sets of data such as images, logs and financial data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), a cloud object storage service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing AWS Application Composer (Preview)
AWS Application Composer helps developers simplify and accelerate architecting, configuring, and building serverless applications. You can drag, drop, and connect AWS services into an application architecture by using AWS Application Composer’s browser-based visual canvas. AWS Application Composer helps you focus on building by maintaining deployment-ready infrastructure as code (IaC) definitions, complete with integration configuration for each service. […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes is now generally available
EventBridge Pipes provides a simpler, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers, expanding the EventBridge offering beyond event buses and scheduling. EventBridge Pipes makes it easy to connect your applications with data from sources including Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Managed Streaming Kafka, self-managed Kafka, and Amazon […]

GCP – Bridging The Gap: Melina López on Expanding Access to Technology in Latin America
Editor’s note: Melina López describes her job as “training the workforce of the future” across much of Latin America. She is a native of Argentina, and now works in Brazil seeking ways to empower underrepresented groups through podcasts, training sessions, skills-building websites, and more. Her quest for greater social justice began years ago, and has […]

GCP – Cloud SQL and Powershell working together on linux
PowerShell is a powerful scripting tool often used by database administrators for managing Microsoft SQL Server. This blog will focus on the aspects of using PowerShell for common database tasks and management on a Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. We will also look at dbatools.io and how this can be used on instances with […]

GCP – Deploy a Google Cloud Marketplace VM with Terraform
Google Cloud Marketplace helps scale and simplify procurement for your organization with online discovery, flexible purchasing, and easy fulfillment of top cloud solutions. Today we are proud to announce an additional Marketplace deployment option for select VM products: Terraform. Now with just a few clicks, you can auto-generate a configuration file to use with Terraform, […]
GCP – Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni
To help customers break down data silos, we launched BigQuery Omni in 2021. Organizations globally are using BigQuery Omni to analyze data across cloud environments. Now, we are excited to launch the next big evolution for multi cloud analytics: cross-cloud analytics. Cross-cloud analytics tools help analysts and data scientists easily, securely, and cost effectively distribute […]