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GCP – Celebrating our tech and startup customers
Our tech and startup customers are disrupting industries, driving innovation and changing how people do things. We’re proud of their success and want to showcase what they’re up to! You’ll hear about their new products, their businesses reaching new milestones and their ability to get things done faster and easier using Google Cloud’s app development, […]

AWS – AWS AppSync adds support for custom response headers
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to develop and manage GraphQL and Real-time APIs, making it easy to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources via a single API endpoint. Read More for the details.

AWS – Database Activity Streams for Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now support Database Activity Streams in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. Database Activity Streams provides a near real-time stream of database activities to meet your relational database for compliance and regulatory requirements . When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity […]

GCP – New to Google Cloud? Start here!
We’re pleased to announce a new and simplified outline of how you can get started quickly with Google Cloud. The new Get Started page on cloud.google.com outlines a clear path to help you to start using Google Cloud in three easy steps: Sign up for a free trial Get hands-on with an interactive quickstart tutorial Walk […]

GCP – Five reasons to join our Public Sector Connect community
We’d like to let you in on a secret. The public sector has an untapped problem-solving superpower: each other. There are countless public servants across counties, states, federal agencies, and global institutions addressing similar issues. And now, these problem solvers and innovators have an opportunity to engage in Google Cloud’s Public Sector Connect. This community has been […]

GCP – Google Cloud Data Heroes Series: Meet Lynn, a cloud architect equipping bioinformatic researchers with genomic-scale data pipelines on GCP
Google Cloud Data Heroes is a series where we share stories of the everyday heroes who use our data analytics tools to do amazing things. Like any good superhero tale, we explore our Google Cloud Data Heroes’ origin stories, how they moved from data chaos to a data-driven environment, what projects and challenges they are […]

GCP – Join us for Google Cloud Security Talks: Threat Detection & Response Edition
Learn about everything related to threat detection, investigation and response in our Q1 2022 Google Cloud Security Talks Join us for our first Google Cloud Security Talks of 2022, a live online event on March 9th, where we’ll focus on all things SecOps, and threat detection, investigation and response across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. […]

GCP – Ingestion as a Service: How Tyson Foods reimagined their Data Platform
As data environments become more complex, companies are turning to streaming analytics solutions that analyze data as it’s ingested and deliver immediate, high-value insights into what is happening now. These insights enable decision makers to act in real time to take advantage of opportunities or respond to issues as they occur. While understanding what is […]

GCP – Google and Automation Anywhere reimagine customer experience by giving virtual agents a boost
With the advent of the pandemic, contact center traffic has increased by as much as 300%, taxing center capabilities. To help handle the surge, and keep up with heightened customer demands, many customer experience providers have deployed automation in the form of virtual agents that serve as the first—and, sometimes the last—line of customer support. […]
GCP – Build a data mesh on Google Cloud with Dataplex, now generally available
Democratizing data insights and accelerating data-driven decision making is a top priority for most enterprises seeking to build a data cloud. This often requires building a self-serve data platform that can span data silos and enable at-scale usage and application of data to drive meaningful business insights. Organizations today need the ability to distribute ownership […]