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GCP – Maximize your Cloud Run investments with new committed use discounts
One of the key benefits of Cloud Run is that it lets you pay only for what you use, down to 100 millisecond granularity. This is ideal for elastic workloads, notably workloads that can scale to zero or that need instant scaling. However, the traffic on your website or API doesn’t always need this kind […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: May 2021
May is a big month for the security industry. It’s been over a year since we gathered for RSA in San Francisco for one of 2020’s last major in-person events. While we likely won’t be together in person this year, it’s an important time for the security community to come together and reflect on many […]
GCP – 4 new features to secure your Cloud Run services
Cloud Run makes developing and deploying containerized applications easier for developers. At the same time, Cloud Run services need to be secure. Today, we’re announcing several new ways for you to secure your Cloud Run environments: Mount secrets from Google Secret Manager Use Binary Authorization to ensure you only deploy trusted container images Use your […]
GCP – Cadbury Worldwide Hide: Inspiring the ritual of hiding eggs and connecting people with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s post is a Q&A with the VCCP London and VCCP CX team. VCCP London conceived of and built the Cadbury Worldwide Hide platform using Google Maps Platform as a way to get consumers ‘hiding’ eggs and engaging with loved ones during a time when they could not be physically together. How did […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds near real-time insights into voice call, chat, and task activity
Amazon Connect now allows customers to subscribe to a near real-time stream of contact (voice calls, chat, and task) events (e.g., call is queued) in your Amazon Connect contact center. These events include when a voice call, chat, or task is initiated, queued to be assigned to an agent, connected to an agent, transferred to another […]
AWS – Now use AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar to prevent desired-state updates during critical events
You can now use Change Calendar to prevent desired-state configuration updates made usingState Manager. Change Calendar and State Manager are both capabilities of AWS SystemsManager. With Change Calendar, you can schedule calendar events to control when changescan be made to your AWS resources. You can use State Manager to define, enforce, and reporton desired state […]
Azure – Public preview: Application Gateway Mutual Authentication
Application Gateway now supports fronted mutual authentication and listener specific SSL policies. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena adds built-in support for cross-account AWS Glue Data Catalogs
Amazon Athena users can now query databases and tables across AWS accounts through built-in support for AWS Glue Data Catalogs in other AWS accounts. Customers need a central data catalog to enable analysts and data scientists to access their data lake without the complexity of replicating catalog metadata in individual AWS accounts. Today’s release makes it easier […]
AWS – Learn how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB
We’re excited to introduce a curriculum of three free, digital courses that help you accelerate your application development skills with Amazon DynamoDB, described below. Designed for new or experienced database developers and architects interested in learning how to develop applications with Amazon DynamoDB, these intermediate courses simulate a real application development project. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – The Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning solution adds contextual featurizations and visualization functionalities to enrich forecast insight
The AWS Solutions team updated Improving Forecast Accuracy with Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps customers easily generate, test, compare, and iterate on forecasts. The solution allows customers to automatically trigger a workflow to automate the creation of forecasts in Amazon Forecast based on user-provided configuration. The solution then provides automatic visualization using Amazon […]