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GCP – The Invisible Cloud: How this Googler keeps the internet moving worldwide
Editor’s note: Google Cloud runs on people like Stacey Cline. As Global Contract Management Lead in our Global Logistics Operations, she enables the worldwide movement of global technical infrastructure – the servers, the storage, the artificial intelligence pods, and everything else that keeps Google Cloud serving enterprises and individuals 24/7. A native of Trinidad & […]
GCP – Using Cloud Bigtable with IAM Conditions and Tags
Cloud Bigtable is a low-latency, high-throughput NoSQL database. Bigtable users store terabytes of data in their tables, and exposing the data securely is essential for Bigtable users. If you are an administrator or developer responsible for securing access to your Bigtable data, you are likely utilizing Google Cloud security features to lock down the Bigtable […]
GCP – How Google Cloud SecOps can help solve these 6 key MSSP conundrums
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published by Siemplify on October 6, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated many organizations’ timelines to transition to the cloud and advance their digital transformation efforts. The potential attack surfaces for those organizations also grew as newly distributed workforces used unmanaged technologies. While some organizations thrived, the transition further exacerbated […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now supports two additional data sources
AWS IoT Device Management Fleet Indexing now provides integration with two additional data sources, AWS IoT Core named shadows and AWS IoT Device Defender detect violations. Customers can now select specific named shadows to index only the data that is required for search queries. Also, detected violations can be indexed to target devices for troubleshooting […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters
AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ clusters with two readable standbys. Amazon RDS Multi-AZ clusters with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is designed to provide you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers, and readable standby instances. […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation event notifications with Amazon EventBridge help you create event-driven applications
Changes to AWS CloudFormation-based stacks and resources are now available as event notifications in Amazon EventBridge. Customers can use these event notifications to build and scale loosely-coupled event-driven applications. With this feature, customers can trigger actions in real-time after they create, update, or delete either their CloudFormation stacks or resources in their CloudFormation stacks without […]
Azure – General availability: Azure confidential VMs (DCasv5/ECasv5-series VMs)
General availability of Azure confidential Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
Azure Monitor for SAP solutions allows you to collect and visualize end-to-end SAP telemetry in the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Diversity Annual Report is now a BigQuery public dataset
Since 2014, tech companies have relied on metrics to identify trouble spots, establish baselines, and measure meaningful progress in diversity, including publishing DEI data directly through diversity annual reports. However, as our understanding of DEI has evolved over time each company’s report has diverged, creating a fragmented landscape of industry-wide data. This separation is problematic […]
Azure – Generally available: CI/CD Guidance for Azure IoT Central
CI/CD Guidance and sample code now available for Azure IoT Central deployment pipelines. Read More for the details.