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Azure – Azure IoT middleware for FreeRTOS in general availability
Announcing the release of a solution to simplify the connection of devices running FreeRTOS to Azure IoT services. Read More for the details.

GCP – Learn how to create alerts based on your database logs in Cloud SQL
Imagine if you could remember everything you’ve ever done with perfect recall. Humans may not be able to, but databases don’t forget — every single alteration to your data can be recorded and logged, from an automated backup to a query. As such, logs are extremely useful when troubleshooting database behaviour. Cloud SQL uses Cloud […]

GCP – Simplify traffic steering with Cloud DNS routing policies
We are pleased to announce the Preview launch of Cloud DNS routing policies. With this feature, you can define custom ways to steer private and Internet traffic using DNS. There are many instances where traffic needs to be split, either because different vendors are being used or due to geographic preferences or because different versions […]

GCP – Do more with less: Introducing Cloud SQL Cost optimization recommendations with Active Assist
With Cloud SQL, teams spend less time on database operations and maintenance and more time on innovation and digital transformation efforts. This increased bandwidth for strategic work can sometimes lead to significant growth in database fleet size, which in turn can introduce operational complexity when it comes to managing cost. If your financial operations team […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: September 2021
We’re busy getting ready for Google Cloud Next ‘21 where we’re excited to talk about the latest updates to our security portfolio and new ways we’re committing to help all of our customers build securely with our cloud. Here are a few sessions you don’t want to miss with our Google Cloud security experts and […]

GCP – Supercharge your Cloud NAT: Introducing new Cloud NAT features
Introduction Cloud NAT is our fully-managed, proxy-less, Network Address Translation offering. It is completely implemented at the Andromeda SDN layer, offering superior performance and effortless scale. With it, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads can access internet resources in a scalable and secure manner, without exposing the workloads running on them to outside […]

GCP – Improve your security posture with new Overly Permissive Firewall Rule Insights
Are you a network security engineer managing large shared VPCs with many projects and applications deployed, and struggling to clean up hundreds of firewall rules accumulated overtime in the VPC firewall rule set? Are you a network admin setting up open firewall rules to accelerate cloud migration, but later struggling to close them down without […]

GCP – Announcing Apigee Integration: An API-first approach for connecting data and applications
Enterprises across the globe are struggling to innovate because their data and applications are siloed, disconnected, and not easily accessible. Today, Google Cloud is announcing the general availability of Apigee Integration, a solution that helps enterprises easily connect their existing data and applications and surface them as easily accessible APIs that can power new experiences. […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports Microsoft SQL Server Always On deployments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Following the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2, you can now easily deploy RHEL SQL Server Always On availability groups using AWS Launch Wizard. Read More for the details.