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AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds EBS volume and API Gateway metrics
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, adds additional storage volume metrics to provide further insights to your storage performance and health along with the new ability to monitor your API Gateway functions. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps enterprise customers easily setup application monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. The new Elastic Block Store […]
GCP – Making transactions and banking more transparent with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s post is a Q&A with Ken Hart, CEO of Snowdrop Solutions. Snowdrop Solutions is a Google Cloud Premier Partner that started working with Google Maps Platform in early 2014 in Europe and recently expanded into Asia working with Standard Chartered Bank. Why is location such a critical part of the solutions you’ve […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region
AWS announces the availability of Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, a fully integrated, interactive, and pay-as-you-go log analytics service for CloudWatch in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region. CloudWatch Logs Insights enables you to explore, analyze, and visualize your logs instantly, allowing you to troubleshoot operational problems with ease. With Logs Insights, you only pay for the […]
Azure – Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management
You can now use Azure Blob storage lifecycle management to automatically transition old blob versions to a cooler storage tier (hot to cool, hot to archive, or cool to archive) or delete old blob versions to optimize for cost. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organization’s security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes. Read More for the details.
GCP – How rapid integrated clinical data helps prioritize care for a vulnerable population
Editor’s note: When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. earlier this year, healthcare organizations had to quickly change or speed up their plans to serve patients. Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) used data analytics from Google Cloud to connect clinicians and care managers with high-risk members. Valmeek Kudesia, vice president of clinical informatics and advanced […]
GCP – Scale in at your own pace with Compute Engine autoscaler controls
In a Compute Engine environment, managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling that lets you automatically change an instance group’s capacity based on current load, so you can rightsize your environment—and your costs. Autoscaling adds more virtual machines (VMs) to a MIG when there is more load (scaling out), and deletes VMs when the need for […]
GCP – APIs 101: Everything You Need to Know About API Design
Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are how software talks to other software. They abstract the complexity of underlying systems so the systems can connect in novel ways even if they were never intended to interoperate. Consequently, APIs are key ingredients in both most modern digital experiences and the execution of many of today’s most exciting […]
GCP – Unifiedpost and Google collaborate on Document AI to automate procurement data capture
Belgian fintech company, Unifiedpost Group has deployedProcurement DocAI to process nearly 350 million invoices and other procure-to-pay docs per year, in 15 countries across Europe. Procurement DocAI, which was announced at Google Cloud Next OnAir, automates the capture of invoices, receipts and other procurement data at scale. It takes unstructured documents across a variety of […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports Configurable Job Retries
AWS Batch now allows users to configure retry strategies based on defined exit codes. Customers can now determine whether their AWS Batch jobs retry based on specified events such as infrastructure failure or application failure. This allows customers to tightly control the actions taken on job failure – resulting in lower costs and faster throughput […]