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GCP – Google Cloud supports higher education with Cloud Digital Leader program
College and university faculty can now easily teach cloud literacy and digital transformation with the Cloud Digital Leader track, part of the Google Cloud career readiness program. The new track is available for eligible faculty who are preparing their students for a cloud-first workforce. As part of the track, students will build their cloud literacy […]
GCP – Secure, Scalable, Discoverable Research Environment with Simplified Chargeback
Healthcare data is being generated at an exponential rate, currently representing an estimated 30% of the world’s data1. The volume, speed, and variety of the data that is created can make it quite difficult for researchers and academic professionals to consume, analyze, and share insights at scale. At Google Cloud, we’re helping bring researchers scalable […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated application modernizations
AWS Application Migration Service is announcing support for new automated application modernizations. AWS Application Migration Service allows you to quickly rehost applications on AWS. It automatically converts your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. Read More for the details.
GCP – Even more pi in the sky: Calculating 100 trillion digits of pi on Google Cloud
Records are made to be broken. In 2019, we calculated 31.4 trillion digits of π — a world record at the time. Then, in 2021, scientists at the University of Applied Sciences of the Grisons calculated another 31.4 trillion digits of the constant, bringing the total up to 62.8 trillion decimal places. Today we’re announcing […]
AWS – Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region
Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling (preview) are now available in the Europe (London) AWS Region. Machine-learning powered capabilities make it easier for contact center managers to help predict contact volumes and average handle time with high accuracy, determine ideal staffing levels, and optimize agent schedules to ensure they have the right agents at […]
GCP – Connecting Apigee to GKE using headless services and Cloud DNS
We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the […]
GCP – Updates coming for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on GKE
We recently received helpful information through the Vulnerability Rewards Program for Authorized Networks and Cloud Run/Functions on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Based on that information, we updated our product documentation and prioritized a plan to make engineering changes to GKE to restrict access to only GKE-related services. Those changes will roll out automatically to over […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune simplifies graph analytics and machine learning workflows with Python integration
You can now run graph analytics and machine learning tasks on graph data stored in Amazon Neptune using an open-source Python integration that simplifies data science and ML workflows. With this integration, you can read and write graph data stored in Neptune using Pandas DataFrames in any Python environment, such as a local Jupyter notebook […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure NetApp Files datastores for Azure VMware Solution
Optimize and scale storage for Azure VMware Solution environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management announces an 80% price reduction for Secure Tunneling
We are excited to announce that today we are reducing the price of the AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling feature by 80%. With the improved cost efficiencies, customers can now scale Secure Tunneling to access remote devices deployed behind restricted firewalls for troubleshooting, configuration updates, training, and other operational tasks for their growing IoT […]