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GCP – Meet Canadian compliance requirements with Protected B landing zones
The Canadian government’s security guidance for cloud environments outlines a standardized set of security controls to protect data and workloads in the cloud. The security guidance, known as the Security Control Profile for Cloud-based GC Services, also outlines security controls and profiles from a different publication, the IT Security Risk Management: A Lifecycle Approach (ITSG-33). […]
GCP – Introducing Topaz — the first subsea cable to connect Canada and Asia
There’s a new subsea cable in town: Topaz, the first-ever fiber cable to connect Canada and Asia. Once complete, Topaz will run from Vancouver to the small town of Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and across the Pacific Ocean to the prefectures of Mie and Ibaraki in Japan. […]
GCP – Vodafone optimizes the business value it extracts from its data with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Frustrated that its existing on-premises infrastructure was limiting the business intelligence it could derive from its data, Vodafone decided to switch to a more accessible, scalable cloud solution. Here, Osman Peermamode, Head of Data and Analytics at Vodafone, explains how the migration to Google Cloud is cost-effectively transforming its service offering to optimize […]
GCP – Investing in our data cloud partner ecosystem to accelerate data-driven transformations
By 2023, 60% of organizations will use three or more analytics solutions to build business applications to connect insights to actions. These multiple implementations add complexity and challenges with multiple data models, disparate toolsets, and lack of integration and governance. To provide organizations the flexibility, interoperability and agility to accelerate data-driven transformations, we have significantly […]
GCP – Unify your data for limitless innovation
Today, data exists in many formats, is provided in real-time streams, and stretches across many different data centers and clouds, all over the world. From analytics, to data engineering, to AI/ML, to data-driven applications, the ways in which we leverage and share data continues to expand. Data has moved beyond the analyst and now impacts […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now provides a new and improved launch experience on the EC2 Console
Amazon EC2 Console introduces the new and improved launch experience – a quicker and easier way to launch an instance. The new design provides a single page layout allowing you to view all your settings in one location. You no longer need to navigate back and forth between steps to ensure your configuration is correct. […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Persistent 2 deployment type of Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems
AWS Backup enhances its support for Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems by now allowing protection of data on its Persistent 2 deployment type. AWS Backup’s centralized data protection capabilities across AWS services including the ability to create immutable, logically air-gapped backups across AWS Regions and accounts, prove-able compliance, and single-click restore, are now available […]
AWS – AWS AppSync adds support for enhanced filtering in real-time GraphQL subscriptions
AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that enables developers to build digital experiences based on real-time data. You can easily and effortlessly configure any supported data source to push and publish real-time data updates to subscribed clients with connection management, scalability, fan-out and broadcasting all handled by AppSync, allowing you to focus on your […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx now supports AWS PrivateLink
You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access the Amazon FSx Application Programming Interface (Amazon FSx API) from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Read More for the details.
