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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds support for Helm chart using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds support for Helm chart for Amazon EKS on EC2 using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT), enabling customers to easily define, install, and upgrade applications built on EKS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.27
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.27, which includes several fixes to version 3.8.26. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and […]
AWS – Amazon Braket adds support for a new quantum processing unit from Oxford Quantum Circuits and is now available in Europe (London) region
Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, adds support for a new superconducting gate-based quantum processing unit (QPU) from Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) named Lucy, located in the UK. With this launch, European customers can now access more types of quantum hardware during the typical EU workday. Furthermore, customers can now run quantum programs […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB supports version 4.2
Utilize new aggregation pipeline functionality and client-side field encryption with Azure Cosmos DB API for MongoDB version 4.2. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Asset certification in Azure Purview data catalog
Data stewards can now certify assets that meet their organization’s quality standards in the Azure Purview data catalog Read More for the details.
GCP – Quickly troubleshoot application errors with Error Reporting
Are you familiar with the four golden signals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): latency, traffic, errors, and saturation? Whether you’re a developer or an operator, you’ve likely been responsible for collecting, storing, or analyzing the data associated with these concepts. Much of this data is captured in application and infrastructure logs, which provide a rich […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: February 2022
It’s a short month, but there’s still many important security updates to discuss. Below, I’ll recap the latest efforts from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team such as our second Threat Horizons Report, and highlight new capabilities from our cloud security product teams who have been working to deliver new controls, security solutions and more to […]
GCP – USAA and Google Cloud: modernizing insurance operations with machine learning
Delivering an automated solution capable of going from images of vehicle damage to actual car part repair/replace predictions has been an elusive dream for many auto insurance carriers. Such a solution could not only streamline the repair process, but also increase auditability of repairs and improve overall cost efficiency. In keeping with its reputation for […]
GCP – Showing the speed of serverless through hackathon solutions
Testing the theory that serverless platforms accelerate bringing new ideas to market, we hosted the inaugural Google Cloud Easy as Pie Serverless Hackathon, backed by a $20,000 prize pool. The response was overwhelming: More than 1,500 developers from 70 countries signed up and submitted nearly 100 projects solving issues in health, education, gaming, data, finance, […]
GCP – Kubernetes: Ready for a starring role at the movies, and in your architecture?
Customers are using Kubernetes as the core technology for the transformation cloud era and for many, cloud-native has become synonymous with container-native. Kubernetes builds on 15 years of running Google’s containerized workloads and the important contributions from the open source community. Inspired by Google’s internal cluster management system, Borg, Kubernetes makes everything associated with deploying […]
