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GCP – Google Cloud Security Overview
When you think about Cloud Security there are many areas of responsibility – securing infrastructure, network, data, applications, and managing identities and access. There are also ongoing processes for security operations and governance, risk & compliance management. But the best part of building your application on cloud is that you share the security responsibility with […]

AWS – AWS Fargate now fully supports multiline logging powered by AWS for Fluent Bit
Amazon ECS now fully supports multiline logging powered by AWS for Fluent Bit for both AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2. AWS Fluent Bit is an AWS distribution of the open-source project Fluent Bit, a fast and a lightweight log forwarder. Amazon ECS users can use this feature to re-combine partial log messages produced by your […]

AWS – Amazon Textract announces quality update to its Forms extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce a quality enhancement to our Forms extraction feature. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure GitOps with Flux v2
Announcing the general availability of GitOps with Flux v2 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes (Arc K8s). Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: LDAP signing
Feature has reached general availability. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT ExpressLink is now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of hardware connectivity modules powered by AWS IoT ExpressLink, which are developed and offered by AWS Partners such as Espressif, Infineon, and u-blox. These modules enable easy AWS cloud-connectivity and implement AWS-mandated security requirements for device to cloud connections. Integrating these wireless modules into their hardware design, […]

AWS – Announcing Open Data on AWS Data Exchange
Anyone can now search and find publicly available data sets on AWS Data Exchange along with more than 3,000 existing data products from category-leading data providers across industries, all in one place. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS App2Container now supports Azure DevOps for setting up a CI/CD pipeline
AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports Azure DevOps for setting up a CI/CD pipeline to automate building and deploying container applications on AWS. With this release, customers can leverage App2Container to automate the setup of Azure DevOps service pipeline for managing automated build and deployment of containerized applications. App2Container automates the build pipeline setup by installing […]

AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool adds multiple enhancements to custom lenses
AWS Well-Architected Tool now allows customers to preview custom lens content before publishing, add additional URLs to helpful resources and improvement plans, and use tags to assign metadata to their custom lenses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches custom subtotals at all levels and ability to show/ hide column for pivot table
Amazon QuickSight launches custom subtotals at all levels on Pivot Table. QuickSight authors can now customize how subtotals are displayed in Pivot Table, with options to display subtotals for last level, all levels or selected level. This customization is available for both rows and columns. To learn more about custom subtotals, see here. Read More […]