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AWS – AWS Nitro Enclaves is now supported on AWS Graviton
Starting today, AWS Nitro Enclaves is available on AWS Graviton2 and AWS Graviton3 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. With this launch, Nitro Enclaves is supported on the majority of Graviton, Intel, and AMD-based Amazon EC2 instance types built on the AWS Nitro System. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces Amazon EKS Anywhere on Apache CloudStack
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Apache CloudStack which expands the choice of infrastructure options for customers running Kubernetes on-premises. Apache CloudStack enhances the list of deployment options for Amazon EKS Anywhere customers, which already includes bare metal servers and VMware vSphere. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon EKS Anywhere now includes support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Today, we are excited to announce support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Amazon EKS Anywhere. In addition to Bottlerocket and Ubuntu, you now have broader choice of operating systems to create and operate Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters with RHEL in your on-premises data centers. RHEL support is available for Amazon EKS Anywhere clusters […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports export of signed query results to Amazon S3
AWS CloudTrail Lake now allows you to export signed query results from Lake to a specified Amazon S3 bucket of your choice. This feature lets you integrate CloudTrail Lake with your downstream workflows for further analysis and visualization purposes, such as query join operations with data sets in Amazon Athena, and dashboards with Amazon QuickSight. […]

AWS – AWS Global Accelerator announces AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint APIs
AWS Global Accelerator now offers two new APIs, AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint, that allow you to add and remove endpoints behind your accelerator. With these new APIs, you can now configure endpoints behind your accelerators without having to provide the full list of endpoints for adding or removing endpoints. Both AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint APIs can accommodate […]

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports Access Point aliases to simplify application access to data
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports Access Point aliases to simplify application access to data. Beginning today, you can configure applications to use the Access Point alias in place of the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) when accessing S3 on Outposts buckets. With Access Points, you can create hundreds of unique policies to control access to […]

AWS – Announcing dark mode support in the AWS Management Console
Today, we are excited to launch dark mode as a beta feature in the AWS Management Console. Dark mode is available as a setting for visual mode in Unified Settings. The setting persists for customers across browsers and devices. Read More for the details.

GCP – Introducing Sensitive Actions to help keep accounts secure
At Google Cloud, we operate in a shared fate model, working in concert with our customers to help achieve stronger security outcomes. One of the ways we do this is to identify potentially risky behavior to help customers determine if action is appropriate. To this end, we now provide insights on what we are calling […]

GCP – Google Cloud Certifications adds new sustainable benefits and donation opportunities
We are thrilled to announce some new Google Cloud certification benefits that reinforce our commitment to Google Cloud certified individuals and our global sustainability strategy. Read on for a look at what’s to come for our certified community. New Google Cloud certified digital toolkit for all Google Cloud certified individuals An official Google Cloud certified […]
GCP – Building a resilient architecture with Cloud SQL
Customers build and deploy many applications that have varied requirements from an availability perspective. The databases that store and manage the data created and used by these applications play a key role in determining the overall availability of the applications. Some applications can tolerate a longer recovery time or RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and have […]