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GCP – BeReal builds a real and authentic social media platform on Google Cloud
Many people struggle with the impact of social media on their lives. It can be at once engaging and informative but also addicting. It also helps us keep in touch with friends and family, but we know it’s typically much better to see people in person when possible. And increasingly people might find themselves spending […]
GCP – Online and in-person training for Google Workspace—from beginner to advanced
Google Workspace—our integrated solution that brings together Gmail, Meet, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, and more—helps people and businesses safely connect, create, and collaborate from anywhere. With such a powerful set of tools, it can be hard to know where to start or whether you’re getting everything Google Workspace has to offer. To help you along […]
GCP – Hands-on learning lab: Stream Google Cloud data into Splunk Cloud
Splunk and Google Cloud customers, this one’s for you: The first Hands-on-Lab of Splunk on Google Cloud is now live and ready for enrollees. If you haven’t tried it yet, Google Cloud Skills Boost provides hands-on educational experiences so you can learn all you need to know about operating in the cloud. Labs from Google […]
GCP – Adopting real-world sustainability solutions with Google Cloud’s ecosystem
When Google Cloud announced its sustainability partnership initiative last October, the goal was to develop real-world solutions that could make an immediate impact – not in the next decade, but right now. The initiative brought technology partners together to help global businesses and governments accelerate sustainability programs, inform decisions on future growth, and better understand […]
GCP – How to manage data on Cloud VMs: A conversation
We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches five controls and one new integration partner
AWS Security Hub has released 5 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practices standard (FSBP) to enhance your Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). If you […]
AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports Application Load Balancer for automatic application layer DDoS mitigation
You can now enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation for Application Load Balancer (ALB) resources, in addition to CloudFront distributions, protected by AWS Shield Advanced. When you protect your resources with AWS Shield Advanced and enable automatic application layer DDoS mitigation, patterns associated with layer 7 DDoS events will be identified and isolated by automatically […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager achieves FedRAMP Compliance
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive […]
GCP – Announcing Serverless Spark components for Vertex AI Pipelines
Developers and ML engineers face a variety of challenges when it comes to operationalizing Spark ML workloads. One set of challenges may come in the form of infrastructure concerns, for example, how to provision infrastructure clusters in advance, how to ensure that there are enough resources to run different kinds of tasks like data preparation, […]