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GCP – From NASA to Google Cloud, Ivan Ramirez helps top gaming companies reach new levels
Editor’s note: Ivan Ramirez, Gaming Team Lead, works in one of Google Cloud’s most dynamic, and least understood businesses, supporting some of the world’s biggest online gaming companies. He’s in a world of extreme potential, heart-stopping challenges, big teamwork, and managing scarce resources for the maximum outcome. And that’s before we get to the gaming. […]
GCP – SevenRooms serves up personalized hospitality, food, and beverage services with Google Cloud
Finding ways to increase customer loyalty and profitability in a post-COVID world is top of mind for hotels, bars, and restaurants. Unfortunately, many food and beverage services providers struggle to deliver the personalized experiences that keep guests coming back for more. The reality is that most traditional hospitality apps offer only limited insight into guest […]
GCP – Sharing is caring: How GPU sharing on GKE saves you money
Developers and data scientists are increasingly turning to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to run demanding workloads like machine learning, visualization/rendering and high-performance computing, leveraging GKE’s support for NVIDIA GPUs. In the current economic climate, customers are under pressure to do more with fewer resources, and cost savings are top of mind. To help, in July, […]
GCP – Scheduling a command in GCP using Cloud Run and Cloud Schedule
Google Cloud CLI makes it very quick and easy for engineers to get started with initial development on Google Cloud Platform and perform many common cloud tasks. The majority of the initial development experience is via the command line interface using tools like gsutil, gcloud, but getting the code to production requires writing ceremonial code […]
GCP – How to help ensure smooth shift handoffs in security operations
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Siemplify on Oct. 29, 2019. Much the same way that nursing teams need to share patient healthcare updates when their shift ends, security operations centers (SOC) need to have smooth shift-handoff procedures in place to ensure that continuous monitoring of their networks and systems is maintained. Without […]
AWS – Build AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard
AWS Config now supports an easier way to author custom AWS Config rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard). With this release, users with limited programming experience can use Guard to define and review custom policies that check your resources have desired configurations. AWS Config rules are a way of creating and implementing compliance policies against […]
AWS – Amazon Connect schedule adherence, now available in preview.
Amazon Connect now includes the ability to report on agent schedule adherence, adding to the existing forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities already in preview. With schedule adherence, you can measure how closely agents follow their planned schedule, providing insights that help you take action to improve agent productivity and customer satisfaction. For example, if […]
AWS – Now in Preview – Amazon WorkSpaces Integration with SAML 2.0
We are happy to announce the preview of Amazon WorkSpaces integration with SAML 2.0. WorkSpaces is a fully managed desktop virtualization service for Windows and Linux that enables you to access resources from any supported device. As an administrator, you can now enable SAML 2.0 authentication on your WorkSpaces directory to control end user access […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Flutter announces web and desktop support (Developer Preview) for Authentication
AWS Amplify is announcing a developer preview to expand Flutter support to web and desktop, starting with the Authentication category. With this release, developers can use Amplify to create new Flutter apps that support web and desktop in addition to mobile platforms. Developers can also extend existing mobile Amplify Flutter projects to support web and […]
AWS – AWS Training and Certification announces AWS Skill Builder subscriptions
AWS Training and Certification announces AWS Skill Builder subscriptions to help learners and organizations advance cloud skills with exclusive, self-paced, digital training. According to the Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report, 76% of IT decision-makers report an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. Gartner predicts global public cloud spending will grow 22% […]