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Azure – Azure Security Center: Public preview updates for August 2021
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure Security Center in August 2021. Read More for the details.

GCP – What is Network Intelligence Center?
You need visibility into your cloud platform in order to monitor and troubleshoot it. Network Intelligence Center provides a single console for Google Cloud network observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Currently Network Intelligence Center has four modules: Network Topology: Helps you visualize the network topology including VPC connectivity to on-premises, internet, and their associated metrics. Connectivity […]

AWS – Amazon VPC Announces New Routing Enhancements to Make It Easy to Deploy Virtual Appliances Between Subnets In a VPC
You can now configure routes in your subnet route tables to forward traffic between two subnets in a VPC, via virtual appliances such as network firewalls, intrusion detection and protection systems, etc. Read More for the details.

GCP – Begin your headless commerce journey with Google Cloud and commercetools
Headless Ecommerce In the last couple of years there has been a shift in the way retailers approach ecommerce: where in the past development efforts were prioritized around building a solid foundation for backend transactions and operations now it is clear that companies in this space are focusing on differentiating themselves by creating unique shopping […]

GCP – Save money and time with automated VM management and suspend/resume
A key benefit of cloud computing is that you can easily create and delete computing resources, paying only for what you use. While production virtual machines (VMs) tend to run constantly, some are only needed when running batch jobs, while others like development or test environments are typically used only during business hours. Keeping VMs […]

GCP – Google invests 1 billion euros in Germany’s digital future
In September 2001, the first-ever German Google employee switched on their computer in Hamburg. Since then, we’ve grown to more than 2,500 employees in four offices across Germany. Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich have long been our home, and we continue to invest in the growth of the local economy. Today, 20 years after the […]

GCP – What are the newest datasets in Google Cloud?
Editor’s note: With Google Cloud’s datasets solution, you can access an ever-expanding resource of the newest datasets to support and empower your analyses and ML models, as well as frequently updated best practices on how to get the most out of any of our datasets. We will be regularly updating this blog with new datasets […]

GCP – How Blibli manages updates for stateful and stateless applications on GKE
At Blibli, an Indonesian business-to-consumer Ecommerce provider, we run most of our IT infrastructure— including both stateful and stateless applications such as Redis, RabbitMQ, Spring Boot, Jenkins, and Grafana—on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). GKE provides a scalable and reliable managed service of Kubernetes. It integrates well with other Google Cloud services. And on GKE, we’re […]

GCP – Improve gRPC service availability and efficiency with Traffic Director
Traffic Director is Google Cloud’s fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh and helps you manage traffic flows between gRPC-based services. For example, you can split traffic between multiple versions of your services for canary or blue/green deployments. You can manage this centrally (for example, by issuing API calls to Traffic Director) without having […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supports Linux Huge Pages
We are excited to announce that Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL now supportsLinux Huge Pages by default. If your instance has more than 2 GB of RAM then your PostgreSQL instance will use Linux Huge Pages for shared memory. This means the shared memory in your Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL instance will now use 2MB pages […]