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Azure – General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
You can now use data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for MemoryDB by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node, in addition to storing data in memory. […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Effective immediately, AWS Lambda customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can configure up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for their Lambda functions, a 20x increase compared to the previous limit of 512 MB. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SNS message data protection is now generally available with real-time data redaction and masking
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) recently launched the public preview of message data protection. Amazon SNS message data protection is a new set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange […]

AWS – AWS Copilot adds support for AWS App Runner’s privately accessible services and more
Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Copilot version 1.23 with support for AWS App Runner private services. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. By default, App Runner services are accessible publicly over the […]

GCP – How Wayfair partnered with Google Cloud to upskill their engineers
Over the past ten years, Wayfair, an online furniture and home goods retailer, experienced exceptional growth, with online shoppers engagement (i.e., website, app). This surge in traffic and revenue generation was supported by the decision to engage Google Cloud services. About 4 years ago, Wayfair realized the need for increased elasticity to handle traffic spikes, […]

GCP – From the FBI to Google Cloud, meet CISO Director MK Palmore
Editor’s note: MK Palmore is a director in Google Cloud’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, a group that works with private- and public-sector organizations to understand and guard against cybersecurity threats. He came to Google Cloud in 2021 from Palo Alto Networks, which he joined following three decades in the Marines […]

GCP – Partnering with the state of Oregon to support a skilled tech workforce
The State of Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon organization defines themselves with a simple mission: “Support Business – Promote Employment.” Oregon jobseekers work with WorkSource to create a career plan by setting job and career goals, enrolling in trainings and workshops, and searching and applying for jobs. To support this mission, in August 2021, Oregon […]

GCP – Extend Chrome security reporting to CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale
Security insights are a critical piece of a secure enterprise browsing solution.Integrating your chosen security solution with Chrome, made possible by Chrome Enterprise Connectors Framework, gives IT and security teams a birds-eye view of the potential threats users face on the web and make data-driven decisions in their security journey. We’re pleased to share that […]
GCP – Practicing the principle of least privilege with Cloud Build and Artifact Registry
People often use Cloud Build and Artifact Registry in tandem to build and store software artifacts – these include container images, to be sure, but also OS packages and language specific packages. Consider a venn diagram where these same users are also users who use the Google Cloud project as a shared, multi-tenant environment. Because […]