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GCP – How partners can maximize their 2023 opportunity with the transformation cloud
The excitement at Next ‘22 this year was inescapable. We celebrated a number of exciting announcements and wins that show where the cloud is heading, and what that means for our partners and customers. As we close out 2022 and finalize our plans for 2023, I wanted to provide a perspective on the most important […]
GCP – IT prediction: AI could help realize the dream of the four-day work week
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: AI will be the primary driver for moving to a 4-day work week Enterprise use of artificial intelligence (AI) has […]
GCP – Increasing digital equity in partnership with Los Angeles County
While great strides have been made toward providing communities greater access to information technology, a digital accessibility gap still remains. In Los Angeles County, it is estimated that 416,000 households lack home internet service and 265,000 households are without a home computer. Notably, low-income neighborhoods and populations that are predominantly Black and Latinx are amongst some of the most […]
GCP – How to build and push a Docker image with Cloud Build
If you want to create a serverless service, you’ll want to check out Cloud Build. Cloud Build is a popular Google Cloud service that allows you to execute your builds on Google Cloud. Cloud Build can import source code from various repositories or cloud storage spaces, execute a build to your specifications, and produce artifacts […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender Audit feature now identifies potential misconfiguration in IoT Policies
Today, AWS IoT Device Defender launched a new audit check AWS IoT policy potentially misconfigured to identify certain potential misconfigurations in IoT policies. Security misconfigurations such as overly permissive policies can be a major cause of security incidents. With this new audit check in AWS IoT Device Defender, you can now more easily identify flaws, troubleshoot […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager is now available in additional Regions
AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager (LDMM) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Snow Large Data Migration Manager enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge devices. You can now easily plan and monitor […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Amazon Neptune Workbench is now available in Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Starting today, you can use the Neptune Workbench to create Neptune notebook instances in these regions for visualizing graph data in Neptune, accessing tutorials, and running code samples using an interactive coding environment. Read More for […]
AWS – VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Africa (Cape Town)
We’re excited to announce the launch of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Cape Town region. This launch marks the 22nd AWS region to support VMware Cloud on AWS and provides customers running VMware-based workloads a faster and more seamless path to migrate to the cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish
We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Arabic, Cantonese, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, and Finnish. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary
Azure Sphere Security Service EU data processing and storage (Public Preview) Read More for the details.