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Azure – General availability (update): Improved Append Capability on Immutable Storage for Blob Storage
Immutable storage for Blob Storage on containers now includes a new append capability. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage
Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing local clusters for Amazon EKS on Outposts
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on Outposts, which enable you to run highly available Kubernetes clusters in on-premises environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly adds Cantonese language support
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Hiujin, Amazon Polly’s first Cantonese speaking, neural text to speech (NTTS) voice Read More for the details.
GCP – Schedule Connectivity Tests for continuous networking reachability diagnostics
As the scope and size of your cloud deployments expand, the need for automation to quickly and consistently diagnose service-affecting issues increases in parallel. Connectivity Tests – part of the Network Intelligence Center capabilities focused on Google Cloud network observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting – help you quickly troubleshoot network connectivity issues by analyzing your configuration […]
GCP – Hispanic Heritage Month: Storybook makes bedtime fun with the help of Google Cloud
September 15th to October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Month—a time to celebrate Latino community, history, and culture. In the coming weeks, we’ll highlight Latino-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. This blog, written by Storybook cofounder and CEO Francisco Cornejo, describes how his innovative mobile app is taking the stress […]
GCP – How Atlas AI and Google Cloud are promoting a more inclusive economy
What if governments could quantify where improved access to safe drinking water would have the greatest benefit on communities? Or if telecom and energy companies could identify ways to expand infrastructure access and improve regional wealth disparities? Satellite imagery and data from other “earth observation” sensors, combined with the analytical power of artificial intelligence (AI) […]
GCP – Evolving our data processing commitments for Google Cloud and Workspace
At Google, we are constantly looking to improve our products, services, and contracts so that we can better serve our customers. To this end, we are pleased to announce that we have updated and merged our data processing terms for Google Cloud, Google Workspace (including Workspace for Education), and Cloud Identity (when purchased separately) into […]
GCP – Multi-environment service orchestrations
In a previous post, I showed how to use a GitOps approach to manage the deployment lifecycle of a service orchestration. This approach makes it easy to deploy changes to a workflow in a staging environment, run tests against it, and gradually roll out these changes to the production environment. While GitOps helps to manage […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces enhanced system logs with consistent durability
Amazon Redshift customers use the system table/views (STL/SVL) to get insight into query executions for their performance and auditing needs. These system table/views are powered by system logs and generated by Amazon Redshift cluster. Amazon Redshift enhances the system log durability and now allows the users to fetch up to seven days of system log […]