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GCP – Learn why and how to migrate monolithic workloads to containers
Alongside the rise in popularity of cloud computing, there has also been an ongoing movement towards lighter and more flexible workloads. Yet, there is still a significant share of legacy applications in enterprises both large and small running in expensive and harder-to-maintain virtual machine (VM) environments. These workloads are often crucial to the enterprises’ wellbeing, […]
GCP – Why you should be using Flex templates for your Dataflow deployments
Last year Google announced general availability of Dataflow Flex templates. We covered many details of this new way to deploy Dataflow pipelines in this blog. Here we offer additional tips and suggestions, best practices, details on using Google Artifact Repository for storing template’s Docker images, and ways to reduce cost for certain kinds of pipelines. […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches Amazon CloudWatch support for Chat metrics
Amazon Connect now publishes Chat metrics to Amazon Cloudwatch, making it easy to help monitor operational metrics. You can now collect, view, and analyze utilization metrics, such as concurrent active chats. This feature is available out-of-the box and no coding is required to access data through CloudWatch. Read More for the details.
GCP – Here’s what to know about changes to kubectl authentication coming in GKE v1.25
Important changes to Kubectl authentication are coming in GKE v1.25 While Google created Kubernetes, the platform has become the de-facto standard for container orchestration thanks to a large open-source community. To ensure the separation between the open source version of Kubernetes and those versions that are customized by services providers like Google, the open source […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune ML now supports custom models and SPARQL query language
You can now define custom machine learning models with Neptune Machine Learning (ML) for your graph data on Amazon Neptune. Neptune ML is Amazon Neptune’s machine learning capability that uses Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) developed with Deep Graph Library (DGL) to automate the heavy lifting of selecting and training ML models for graph data. With […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports up to 128TiB of storage per cluster
Amazon Neptune now supports up to 128 TiB of storage per cluster (up from 64 TiB). With this change you can continue to use your graph applications without adding new clusters or making any changes to your application. The increased storage limit is available on engine releases 1.0.2.2 and above. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Scheduler: Now available across 23 GCP Regions
Reliably executing tasks on a schedule is critical for everything from data engineering, to infrastructure management, and application maintenance. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Google Cloud Scheduler, our enterprise-grade scheduling service, is now available in more GCP regions and multiple regions can now be used from a single project removing the prior limit […]
GCP – How healthcare can strengthen its own cybersecurity resilience
With all the crises that have buffeted the healthcare and life sciences industries the past two years, one that often gets overlooked is the unceasing wave of cyberattacks aimed at medical, research, educational, and public health organizations. These attacks have shut down critical systems, attempted to steal vaccines and other research, and even halted paychecks […]
GCP – Improving the availability of your Cloud Storage: Automatic retries in client libraries
You can use client libraries to interact with Cloud Storage. Using client libraries provides several benefits, including abstracting away low level details when making requests (such as authentication), and providing automatic retries of transient operations. Benefits of using client libraries for retries Most Cloud Storage client libraries perform retries automatically. Retries are helpful in case […]
AWS – AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks
AWS announces the general availability of AWS CloudFormation Hooks, a feature that allows customers to invoke custom logic to automate actions or inspect resource configurations prior to a create, update or delete CloudFormation stack operation. Over 1 million customers use AWS CloudFormation every week to model, provision, and manage their cloud applications and infrastructure in […]