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AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M1 Mac instances are now generally available (GA). Built on Apple Silicon Mac mini computers and powered by the AWS Nitro System, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for building and testing iOS and macOS applications. You still […]

Azure – Public preview: 2022-06-30 Azure IoT Central REST API release is now live
The Azure IoT Central REST API now supports to programmatically create enrollment groups, schedule jobs, configure application dashboards, and leverage the REST API for unassociated/unmodeled devices. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces support for account level targeting in an Organizational Unit
AWS CloudFormation StackSets launched a new feature that allows you to deploy stack sets to selected AWS accounts in an Organizational Unit (OU) in a single operation. You can use this feature to target or skip stack sets deployment to AWS accounts within an OU. For example, you can use this feature to skip deployment […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. StackSets allows you to provision and manage deployment of cloud resources to multiple AWS accounts and Regions in a single operation. StackSets is integrated with AWS Organizations, so you can take advantage of automatic deployments whenever an AWS account enters […]

GCP – Investing in Differentiation brings great customer experiences and repeatable business
“Customer success is the cornerstone of our partner ecosystem and ensures our joint customers experience the innovation, faster time to value, and top notch skills from Google and Google Cloud Partners.”—Nina Harding, Global Chief, Partner Advantage Program. Our ecosystem is a strong, validated ally to help you drive business growth and solve complex challenges. Differentiation […]

GCP – REWE Group accommodates growth spikes and enhances hybrid architecture with Google Cloud
Significant growth in our business partnerships at REWE Group in Austria has led to an unprecedented increase in traffic across our applications. As one of Europe’s largest retail and tourism groups, our burgeoning user base continues to emanate from a variety of sources including new retail partners, affiliate stores, and online customers from desktop and […]

GCP – Announcing native image support for Java Client Libraries — Optimize your short lived workloads
We are excited to announce that Cloud Java Client Libraries now have built-in support for Native Image compilation! Native Image technology enables you to compile your Java applications ahead-of-time and into a standalone executable. This results in several performance benefits, such as fast cold startup times and less upfront memory usage (as it doesn’t require […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service announces the availability of quota information through Service Quotas
Amazon OpenSearch Service now allows users to view default quota and applied quota information through Service Quotas. Quotas, also referred to as limits in AWS services, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in your AWS account. Each AWS service defines its quotas and establishes default values for those quotas. Depending on […]

GCP – Network & Application Security in Google Cloud
Google owns and operates one of the largest backbone networks in the world to connect its data centers. When your traffic is on the Google network, it no longer transits the public internet, making it less likely to be attacked, intercepted, or manipulated. Data is encrypted in transit and the scale of the network provides […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces new machine learning capabilities to more accurately detect potentially malicious access to data stored in S3 buckets
Amazon GuardDuty has incorporated new machine learning techniques that are highly effective at detecting anomalous access to data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets. This new capability continuously models S3 data plane API invocations (e.g. GET, PUT, and DELETE) within an account, incorporating probabilistic predictions to more accurately alert on highly suspicious user […]