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AWS – AWS Single Sign-On is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. For a full list of the regions where AWS SSO is available, see the AWS Regional Services List. Read More for the details.

AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2022.1 with performance improvements and support for additional Linux distributions
NICE DCV version 2022.1 introduces performance improvements and multiple new features, such as support for Rocky Linux 8.5 and Ubuntu 22.04 servers. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud TPU v4 records fastest training times on five MLPerf 2.0 benchmarks
Today, ML-driven innovation is fundamentally transforming computing, enabling entirely new classes of internet services. For example, recent state-of-the-art lage models such as PaLM and Chinchilla herald a coming paradigm shift where ML services will augment human creativity. All indications are that we are still in the early stages of what will be the next qualitative […]

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports presigned URLs
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports presigned URLs for granting time-limited access to objects stored locally on an Outpost. S3 on Outposts bucket owners can now more easily share objects with individuals in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Application Migration Service is now in scope for AWS SOC reports and supports temporary IAM credentials
You can now use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) for use cases that are subject to System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting. You can also now install the AWS Application Migration Service agent on your source servers using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) temporary security credentials with limited permissions. AWS Application Migration Service […]

GCP – IP Masquerading and eBPF are now in GKE Autopilot
So you’re deploying Kubernetes and you’ve been ready-to-go with your containerized applications. But one problem you’ve faced is IP exhaustion across your diverse environments and your clusters need to talk to your on-prem clusters or hosts. Or maybe your workloads talk to a service that expects only RFC 1918 addresses for regulatory or compliance reasons. […]

GCP – Jumpstart your location experiences with new integrations from across Google
We’re always looking for new ways to help you more easily discover, explore and deploy recommended APIs for your mapping needs. Starting today, Google Maps Platform developers at small businesses and large companies alike have access to new features and integrations with other Google products to enhance their end-user experiences and back-end operations. Easily get […]

GCP – Secure Supply Chain on Google Cloud
Securing your software requires establishing, verifying, and maintaining a chain of trust. That chain establishes the provenance or origin trail of your code, via attestations, generated and checked throughout your software development and deployment process. At Google, the internal development process enables a level of security, through code review, verified code provenance, and policy enforcement […]

GCP – Introducing Query Insights for Cloud Spanner: troubleshoot performance issues with pre-built dashboards
Today, application development teams are more agile and are shipping features faster than ever before. In addition to these rapid development cycles and the rise of microservices architectures, the end-to-end ownership of feature development (and performance monitoring) has moved to a shared responsibility model between advanced database administrators and full-stack developers. However, most developers don’t […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) Region
Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS US East (Ohio) region. You can now deploy AppStream 2.0 for your active workloads, as well as to meet your disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity needs. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 […]