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GCP – Data movement for the masses with Dataflow Templates
It’s 4 PM on a Friday afternoon, and your mind has already checked out for the weekend. Just as you are about to close your laptop, you see an e-mail come in from your engineering manager. You dread what lies ahead. “Our data science team needs to analyze streaming data from our Kafka cluster. They […]
GCP – Introducing Media CDN—the modern extensible platform for delivering immersive experiences
The digital media and entertainment industry is experiencing dramatic growth, as audiences migrate to online experiences and content providers seek to deliver new and innovative content. According to The Global Internet Phenomena Report, streaming video accounted for 53.7% of internet bandwidth traffic, up by 4.8% from a year ago. This rapid growth of over-the-top content […]
GCP – The next step for Istio and cloud-native open source
Today we are excited to announce that Google and the Istio Steering Committee have submittedthe Istio project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a significant milestone for Istio and its community, and we are thrilled to reach this next step in the evolution of the project. […]
AWS – Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2022 AMI now available in preview
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today announced the public preview of the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2022 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run your […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to claim and configure phone numbers programmatically
Amazon Connect launches API to claim new phone numbers and configure them programmatically. Using this API, you can programmatically search for and claim available phone numbers, associate phone numbers to your contact flows, or release phone numbers that are no longer needed. Additionally, the phone number API comes with support for AWS CloudFormation. To learn […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows Server
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to lead you through a best practices deployment of self-managed IIS (Internet Information Services) for Windows Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling group across multiple Availability Zones (AZs). AWS Launch Wizard uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide you through the configuration, sizing and […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now provides guided deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to lead you through a best practices deployment of self-managed Microsoft Exchange Server on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). AWS Launch Wizard uses the AWS Well-Architected Framework to guide you through the configuration, sizing and deployment of Microsoft Exchange Server on AWS Cloud, without the need to […]
AWS – AWS Batch adds improvements to UpdateComputeEnvironment API
AWS Batch now expands the Compute environment (CE) configuration parameters that can be updated without having to recreate compute environments. Previously customers used UpdateComputeEnvironment API to change CE state, desired CPU count, min and max vCPU count, and service role. To update additional configuration parameters, customers have to create new CEs. With this launch, customers […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon Connect now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, […]
GCP – Earth Week at Google: Helping researchers, startups and developers build more sustainably
Today’s Google Doodle reminds us of the enormous changes our planet is experiencing due to climate change. Everyone, from businesses to governments to technologists, has the opportunity to meet this challenge — transforming themselves and their organizations to be more sustainable. For this Earth Day 2022, and indeed Earth Week, Google Cloud celebrates the organizations […]