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GCP – Data considerations for early-stage startups
As lead for analytics and AI solutions at Google Cloud, my team works with startups building on Google Cloud. This puts us in the fortunate position to learn from founders and engineers about how early-stage startups’ investments can either constrain them or position them for success, even at the seed level. In this post, I […]
GCP – Develop and debug Kubernetes microservice applications fast with Cloud Code and Skaffold modules
Microservice applications are popular, and for good reason. They offer flexibility over monolithic applications, and superior scalability when containerized and deployed to Kubernetes. To be functional, a microservice application must run all its services. Issues arise when you want to build your application as a whole for your CI/CD pipeline and still be able to […]
GCP – Sprinklr and Google Cloud join forces to help enterprises reimagine their customer experience management strategies
Enterprises are increasingly seeking out technologies that help them create unique experiences for customers with speed and at scale. At the same time, customers want flexibility when deciding where to manage their enterprise data, particularly when it comes to business-critical applications. That’s why I’m thrilled that Sprinklr, the unified customer experience management (Unified-CXM) platform for […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now detects EC2 instance credentials used from another AWS account
Amazon GuardDuty introduces a new threat detection that informs you when your EC2 instance credentials are used to invoke APIs from an IP address that is owned by a different AWS account than the one that the associated EC2 instance is running in. The new finding type is: UnauthorizedAccess:IAMUser/InstanceCredentialExfiltration.InsideAWS. While Amazon GuardDuty has always informed […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists in the AWS China (Beijing), AWS China (Ningxia), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
You can now use the Amazon S3 Object Ownership setting, Bucket owner enforced, to disable access control lists (ACLs) in the AWS China (Beijing), AWS China (Ningxia), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, simplifying access management for data stored in S3. When you apply this bucket-level setting, every object in an S3 bucket is owned by […]
AWS – AWS Client VPN now supports banner text and maximum session duration
AWS Client VPN now provides the ability for all customers to display a customizable banner on the AWS Client VPN Desktop application when a VPN session is established. The banner text can contain privacy and security notices that will be displayed to end-users before granting VPN access. Customers will now be able to configure the […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Glue Data Catalog tables when Lake Formation integration is enabled
We are announcing the support of using Apache Spark SQL to update Glue Data Catalog tables when using Amazon EMR integration with AWS Lake Formation. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor log alerts new version
Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-08-01 is now available and fully supported, replacing API version 2021-02-01-preview. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps updates
You can now see multiple improvements to the Copy Dashboard preview and try out a new feature which automatically retry a task in a pipeline when it fails. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition improves accuracy of Content Moderation for Video
Amazon Rekognition content moderation is a deep learning-based feature that can detect inappropriate, unwanted, or offensive images and videos, making it easier to find and remove such content at scale. Amazon Rekognition provides a detailed taxonomy across 35 sub-categories and 10 distinct top-level moderation categories. On 11/05/2021, we launched an update with improved model for image moderation […]