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GCP – Supporting digital ownership and decentralization with Dapper Labs and Google Cloud
Businesses, developers and end-users are increasingly embracing blockchain applications. The benefits and opportunities that decentralized technologies offer are becoming evident: true digital ownership and emerging markets of digital goods powered by transparent, reliable, and verifiable transactions. At the very heart of this ongoing mass adoption are networks like Flow – a consumer-friendly, high-throughput blockchain that […]
GCP – Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for SQLAlchemy
We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Spanner dialect that enables SQLAlchemy applications to take advantage of Cloud Spanner‘s scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. SQLAlchemy is a Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper, giving application developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. Its object-relational mapper […]
GCP – Leading with Google Cloud & Partners to modernize infrastructure in manufacturing
In the manufacturing sector, flexibility and stability are crucial to delivering business outcomes. In a dynamic and unpredictable world, however, manufacturers must constantly contend with forces that can disrupt supply chains and cause instability. Mitigating against challenges like these are part of life for manufacturers. This is why many of them implement highly sophisticated management […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Lex now supports AWS CloudFormation, allowing you to create bots and organize Amazon Lex resources using CloudFormation stack templates. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With CloudFormation support, you can easily model resources on Lex V2 APIs – namely Bot, BotVersion, BotAlias, and ResourcePolicy – to […]
GCP – How Pub/Sub eliminates boring meetings and makes your systems scale
So, you’ve said goodbye to the monolithic application and refactored it into services. You are shipping faster and the code is cleaner. But the complexity of communication between the services is causing performance issues. And every time a new team needs to integrate, it’s a whole lot of meetings. The time has come to consider […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 updates API actions
Amazon Route 53 is adding domain specific API actions: DeleteDomain and ListPrices. Sorting and filtering functions are also being added to the API action, ListDomains. The DeleteDomain API action is a function previously only available in the AWS Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP reduces minimum file system throughput capacity to 128 MB/s
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has now reduced the minimum file system throughput capacity from 512 MB/s to 128 MB/s, decreasing the minimum cost of an FSx for ONTAP file system by over 50%. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules
AWS Network Firewall now supports AWS Managed Rules, which are groups of rules based on threat intelligence data, to enable you to stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own rules. Read More for the details.
AWS – You can now enable data compression for capacity pool storage in Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now supports data compression for data stored within a file system’s capacity pool storage. Combined with FSx for ONTAP’s existing support for data deduplication and compaction, data compression enables you to reduce your storage costs for a wide spectrum of data sets — for example, you can reduce your costs […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions.
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Read More for the details.