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GCP – Designing TIC 3.0 compliant solutions on Google Cloud
Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) is a federal cybersecurity initiative established in 2007 to enhance network and boundary security across the federal government. The initial versions of the TIC initiative established a network security baseline by requiring agencies to consolidate and monitor their external network connections. The TIC 2.0 initiative focused on securing traffic at the […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports using custom dictionaries with IK Analysis plugin
Amazon OpenSearch Service now allows you to use custom dictionaries with the IK (Chinese) Analysis plugin. With support for custom dictionaries, you can use your preferred keywords and synonyms with IK Analyzer to tailor search results to suit your business needs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Teaming up with MLB for game-changing sports analytics
Editor’s note: Major League Baseball™ (MLB™) is working closely with Google Cloud to score more use cases for its massive amounts of data. Here’s how the organization is using Google Cloud services to change the game for players, fans, and broadcasters. MLB Senior Director of Software Engineering, Rob Engel, contributed to this blog. Baseball and […]
GCP – Train your organization on Google Cloud Skills Boost
Enterprises are moving to cloud computing at an accelerated pace, estimating that 85% of enterprises will adopt a cloud first principle by 2025 (Gartner®, Gartner says Cloud will be the Centerpiece of the New Digital Experience, Laurence Goasduff, November 10, 2021). There are countless reasons why enterprises are moving to the cloud – from reduced […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Studio announces new file storage and file management capabilities
AWS Amplify Studio now offers a visual interface for setting up and managing file storage resources, making it easy to store and serve user-generated content (e.g. photos and videos) from web or mobile apps. With Amplify Studio, you can easily create an Amazon S3 bucket, configure file access levels, integrate storage client libraries into your […]
AWS – AWS Lambda Function URLs: built-in HTTPS endpoints for your Lambda functions
AWS Lambda is announcing Lambda Function URLs, a new feature that makes it easier to invoke functions through an HTTPS endpoint as a built-in capability of the AWS Lambda service. You can add Function URLs to new and existing functions in a single click from the console, or in a couple of lines using AWS CloudFormation […]
AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for querying Amazon Ion data
Amazon Athena now supports data stored in Amazon Ion format, a richly-typed, self-describing format developed and open-sourced by Amazon. Amazon Ion provides interchangeable binary and text formats which combine the ease of use of text with the efficiency of binary encoding. The Ion format is currently used by internal Amazon teams, by AWS services such as Amazon […]
AWS – Announcing Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console
We are excited to launch Unified Settings in the AWS Management Console. With Unified Settings, settings will persist across devices, browsers, and services. At launch, Unified Settings will support settings called default language, default Region, and favorite service display. Default language displays your preferred language across the Management Console, default Region sets the AWS Region […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance
AWS Network Firewall is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California) and US West (Oregon). You can now use AWS Network Firewall to protect and control access to and from your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in these regions for workloads […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (General Availability)
Metrics Insights is a new feature from Amazon CloudWatch that is now generally available. As a fast, flexible, SQL based query engine, Metrics Insights enables developers, operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real time and helps you use these insights to reduce time to […]