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AWS – UI Improvements in AWS Budgets
AWS Budgets has enhanced the console experience by adding a split-view panel that allows you to view budget details without leaving the budgets overview page. AWS Budgets helps you control AWS cost and usage by allowing you to set custom budgets that alert you when your cloud spend exceeds (or is forecasted to exceed) your budgeted […]

AWS – Amazon Quicksight now supports show/hide fields on pivot table
Amazon QuickSight now provides authors the ability to show or hide any column, row or value fields from the field well context menu on pivot table visuals. This capability is currently supported in table visuals and this launch extends it to pivot table visuals. Readers and authors can now export the data to CSV and […]

GCP – Google helps Indonesia advance education on cloud, machine learning, and mobile development through Bangkit academy
Indonesia is leading the way for digital transformation in Southeast Asia. According to Google’s e-Conomy South East Asia report, the country’s 2030 Gross Merchandise Value – the value of online retailing to consumers – could be twice the value of the whole of Southeast Asia today. This growth means that many companies need more qualified […]

GCP – When two become one: Integrating Google Cloud Organizations after a merger or acquisition
Congratulations! Your company just acquired or merged with another organization, beginning an important new chapter in its history. But like with many business deals, the devil is in the details — particularly when it comes to integrating the two companies’ cloud domains and organizations. In this blog post, we look at how to approach mergers […]

GCP – Anthos on-prem and on bare metal now power Google Distributed Cloud Virtual
Last year, we announced Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), a portfolio of hardware, software, and services that will bring our infrastructure to the edge and into your data centers. In March, Google Distributed Cloud Edge became generally availableto deliver an integrated hardware and software solution for new telco and enterprise edge workloads. And today, we are […]

GCP – Wayfair: Accelerating MLOps to power great experiences at scale
Machine Learning (ML) is part of everything we do at Wayfair to support each of the 30 million active customers on our website. It enables us to make context-aware, real-time and intelligent decisions across every aspect of our business. We use ML models to forecast product demand across the globe, to ensure our customers can […]

GCP – How one Googler uses talking tulips to connect with customers
Editor’s Note: Matt Feigal has spent years deep inside many of our customers’ toughest technical problems, and now helps our partners solve innumerable issues for even more customers. That success at engineering problem-solving didn’t come about as you’d expect, though. He’s got an inspiring range of skills in empathy, entertaining…and engineering. What was your path […]

GCP – Announcing general availability of Confidential GKE Nodes
Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Confidential GKE Nodes. Many organizations have made Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) the foundation of their modern application architectures. While the benefits of containers and Kubernetes can outweigh that of traditional architectures, moving to and running those apps in the cloud often entails careful planning to minimize […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up and down based on your application’s specific needs. Starting today, you can run applications orchestrated by AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read […]
GCP – Announcing gcpdiag – Open Source Troubleshooting Tool for Google Cloud Platform
We strive to make Google Cloud as easy to use as possible, and one of the ways we do this is to listen closely to our customer feedback that comes in through our Google Cloud Support team. Besides helping the customers immediately, the support team is also using the experience gained through this feedback to […]