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GCP – A new look for the red pin on Maps JavaScript, Android and iOS
Over the years, the default marker, represented by the red pin has become an iconic part of the Google Maps experience, and as the pin has evolved, we’ve brought those same changes to Google Maps Platform. Now, we’re bringing the newest version of the pin to the Maps JavaScript API and the Maps SDKs for […]

GCP – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) with 24/7 support – now available with Committed Use Discounts
Optimizing your costs is a major priority for Google Cloud. We do this with products that deliver a great combination of price and performance, recommendations that help you right size your deployment, and by offering the right pricing models. Committed Use Discounts is one such model that allows you to get high discounts against commitments […]

GCP – This engineering manager has spent 15+ years across Google — here’s how she leads through empowerment
Editor’s note: Since joining Google in 2007, Carrie Bell has gone from working on search ads to managing multiple teams of highly skilled engineers. That may seem unusual, but she says there’s a common theme across it all: empowerment. What was your path to Google? I joined the Army Reserve out of high school, and […]

GCP – How Google Cloud blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS attack at 46 million rps
Over the past few years, Google has observed that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency and growing in size exponentially. Today’s internet-facing workloads are at constant risk of attack with impacts ranging from degraded performance and user experience for legitimate users, to increased operating and hosting costs, to full unavailability of mission critical […]

GCP – Helping European education providers navigate privacy assessments
Every student and educator deserves access to learning tools that are private and secure. Google Workspace for Education and Chromebooks have positively transformed teaching and learning, while creating safe learning environments for more than 170 million students and educators around the world. Our education products are built with data protection at their core, enabling school […]

GCP – Kaluza: Powering greener, smarter energy usage with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Kaluza is a UK-based technology company that provides energy retailers with real-time billing, smart grid services, and seamless customer experiences. In this blog, Tom Mallett, Sustainability Manager, Kaluza, explains how Kaluza leverages Google Cloud to improve energy visibility throughout the company. He also explores how better emissions data informs sustainability solutions that make […]

AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS is excited to announce that the AWS Well-Architected Tool is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud. The AWS Well-Architected Tool is used to help customers review the state of their applications and workloads against architectural […]

AWS – Announcing wildcard support in Amazon EKS Fargate Profile Selectors
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now allows you to more easily run workloads from various Kubernetes namespaces on AWS Fargate serverless compute with a single EKS Fargate Profile. Using Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate enables you to use Kubernetes without having to worry about compute infrastructure configuration and maintenance. Previously, you had to specify […]

AWS – AWS App Mesh adds support for multiple listeners
AWS App Mesh adds support for multiple listeners, allowing you to run applications with several open ports in a mesh. This enables you to control and secure inbound and outbound traffic for different application ports, as well as to collect port-specific metrics for this traffic. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports custom Consumer Group IDs for Amazon MSK and Self-Managed Kafka as event sources
AWS Lambda now supports custom Consumer Group IDs when using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) or Self-Managed Kafka as an event source. Kafka uses Consumer Group IDs to identify consumer membership and record consumer checkpoints. Using a custom Consumer Group ID is ideal for customers with workloads that require disaster recovery or fail‑over […]