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AWS – Amazon WorkMail now supports Impersonation Roles
Amazon WorkMail now offers Impersonation Roles, a secure way to more easily grant programmatic access to mailboxes. Customers can use Impersonation Roles with Exchange Web Services (EWS) to perform impersonated actions in other users’ mailboxes. Administrators have the ability to limit the scope of Impersonation Roles to specific users, including choosing whether actions have full […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports resource tagging
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports tagging of resources such as namespace and workgroup. Tagging allows you to assign a key-value pair to your resources and organize them by business departments, billing groups, and production environments. Read More for the details.

GCP – New Google Cloud Spot VM price reductions: Up to 11% off already discounted
Spot VMs, previously known as preemptible VMs, are spare compute capacity offered at a significant discount. When we launched Spot VMs last year, we removed the 24 hour limitation so Spot VMs can now run indefinitely. We continue to offer the industry’s most predictable, simple, and competitive Spot pricing – with pricing updates implemented up […]

GCP – From open source to managed services: Maisons du Monde’s service mesh journey
Maisons du Monde is a furniture and home decor company founded in France over 25 years ago. With 360 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Portugal our systems and website caters to traffic from across Europe. Our team of Operations Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) manage the MDM website and […]

GCP – How Chrome supports today’s workforce with secure enterprise browsing
When I first started at Google 15 years ago, I was brought on as a “hired hacker” on Google’s security team. I hunted for software vulnerabilities and helped product teams fix and mitigate them. Over the years, I’ve worked on initiatives to ensure security is built-in by default and user-friendly, to detect and mitigate exploits, […]

GCP – 6 Building blocks for cloud networking – Networking Architecture
Cloud offers opportunities to businesses to help them achieve their strategic objectives. One of the foundational components of the cloud is networking. This article explores the building blocks of networking on Google Cloud. The purpose of architecture Moving to the cloud can be a complex endeavor and onboarding and designing your architecture is an important […]

AWS – AWS Cloud WAN is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3, 6, 9, and 12TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge), 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge), and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Backup Launches New Backup Vault Lock Console Experience
AWS Backup now offers a new Backup Vault Lock console experience that provides you a more intuitive way to configure your vault lock details. AWS Backup Vault Lock allows you to deploy and manage your vault’s immutability policies, protecting your backups from accidental or malicious deletions. Depending on your data retention needs, with AWS Backup Vault […]
GCP – U.S. Army chooses Google Workspace to deliver cutting-edge collaboration
In June, we announced the creation of Google Public Sector, a new Google division focusing on helping U.S. public sector entities—including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions—accelerate their digital transformations. It is our belief that Google Public Sector, and our industry partner ecosystem, will play an important role in applying cloud technology to […]