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Azure – Generally available: Best practices assessment for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines
Evaluate SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines for configuration best practices using the SQL best practices assessment feature on the SQL virtual machine blade in the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
GCP – Scaling quickly to new markets with Cloud Run—a web modernization story
Editor’s note: Today’s post documents the solution to a problem of how to scale website infrastructure as it moves from on-prem to the cloud. It is the result of collaboration between technical teams of Les Echos Le Parisien Annonces (a division of Groupe Les Echos, subsidiary company of LVMH) and Google in the spirit of […]
GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting Tengiva
Editor’s note: In the US, the UK and Australia, March is celebrated as Women’s History Month. Here at Google, we’re excited to celebrate women from all backgrounds and are committed to increasing the number of women in the technology industry. Over the next few weeks, we will shine a spotlight on women-led startups and how […]
GCP – What’s new with Cloud Memorystore for Redis
Cloud Memorystore for Redis provides a fully managed in-memory store that is compatible with open source Redis. Whether you are using Redis for caching, building lightning fast gaming experience or enabling real-time experiences like threat detection, Memorystore for Redis makes it easy to deploy and manage a scalable, highly available, secure Redis service on Google […]
AWS – AWS KMS and ACM now support the latest hybrid post-quantum TLS ciphers
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now support hybrid post-quantum key establishment for transport layer security (SSL/TLS) connections using the latest post-quantum ciphers from Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) selection process. These TLS configurations allow you to measure the potential performance impact of PQC algorithms ahead of a […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine now a part of VMware Cloud Universal program
As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, our partnership with VMware continues to focus on helping customers successfully navigate their cloud journey and achieve their business objectives through seamless and rapid migration of business critical VMware workloads. We announced the general availability of Google Cloud VMware Engine in May 2020. Since then we have worked […]
GCP – Richemont nutzt KI-Empfehlungen für ein besseres Einkaufserlebnis
Ob online, offline oder auch beides – Einzelhändler stehen im Umgang mit ihren Kund*innen vor der gleichen Herausforderung: Wie können sie ihrer Kundschaft überall und jederzeit die richtige Auswahl bieten, ohne sie zu überfordern – und sie dadurch möglicherweise zu verlieren? Hier handelt es sich in erster Linie um ein Informationsproblem – und damit eines, […]
GCP – How AI-curated suggestions serve a better client experience at Richemont
Whether they meet customers online, offline, or in some combination, retailers share a big problem: How can they offer the right choices, when and how the customer wants, without overwhelming (and often losing) the buyer? More than anything, this is an information problem. As such, it’s a good candidate for using artificial intelligence (AI) for […]
AWS – New Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency is now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. This deployment option give you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable […]
AWS – Experts on AWS IQ can now complete proposals with one click
AWS IQ Experts can now complete proposals with one click. Previously, you were required to send a final payment request to close a proposal, even if no additional payment was needed. Now you can select the “Complete’” button within an open proposal without requesting an additional payment. Read More for the details.