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AWS – AWS Glue sensitive data detection is available in 18 additional AWS Regions
Sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue is now generally available in 18 additional AWS Regions: US West (Northern California), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Milan), […]

GCP – IT prediction: open source packages get curated
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, 4 out of 5 enterprise developers will use some form of curated open source Open source is everywhere. […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP extends NVMe read cache support to Single-AZ file systems
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is extending the NVMe read cache support that is already included with Multi-AZ file systems to Single-AZ file systems. With the read cache, you can drive up to 650,000 IOPS and 6 GB/s of read throughput when reading your frequently-accessed data. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing Google Cloud support for Impact Level 5 (IL5) workloads
Google Cloud is committed to serving public sector customers around the world, and has made significant progress in building products and services designed specifically to meet your needs. Today, Google Cloud is proud to announce Department of Defense Impact Level 5 (IL5) provisional authorization (PA) — another important milestone that enables us to support additional […]

GCP – Getting started with Looker Studio Pro
Today, millions of users turn to Looker Studio for self-serve business intelligence (BI) to explore data, answer business questions, build visualizations and share insights in beautiful dashboards with others. Recently, we introduced enterprise capabilities, including the options to manage team content and gain access to enterprise support, with Looker Studio Pro. Looker Studio Pro is […]

GCP – Payhawk achieves unicorn status with automated financing software powered by Google Cloud
For far too long, managing employee expenses has been a time-consuming process that requires manual data entry and reconciliation to bridge the gap between business bank accounts and ERP systems. In the absence of an integrated workflow, finance teams use multiple systems to manage credit card and cash payments, and finding receipts. In most cases, […]

GCP – Data: the Rx to faster, patient-centric clinical trials
Out of necessity, the life sciences industry has accelerated the innovation and experimentation of drug and device development. The sector, which has traditionally been slow-moving when it comes to clinical trials—for reasons ranging from regulatory, to trial recruitment, to quality control—is now looking towards cloud technology to speed up the process and find new innovative […]

GCP – Workflows patterns and best practices – Part 3
This is a three-part series of posts, in which we summarize Workflows and service orchestration patterns. In this third and final post, we talk about managing workflow life cycles and the benefits of using Firestore with Workflows. Use subworkflows and Terraform to manage workflow definitions If you’re not careful, the workflow definitions you create with […]

GCP – Introducing the Google Cloud Partner All-stars program
At Google Cloud, we have deep gratitude for our partners. Not only do they operate as an extension of our team, working tirelessly to deliver the best solutions and experiences for customers; they also show up as champions of our technology, collaborating with us to make sure we’re as great as we can be. And […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports Nitro-based encryption of data in transit
Starting today, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides automatic encryption of data in transit between Nitro-based compute instances and new FSx for ONTAP file systems. Read More for the details.