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Azure – General availability: Azure Maps- new Gen2 pricing model available
Get new Azure Maps features and potential cost savings with Gen2 pricing. Read More for the details.
GCP – Southwire powers digital transformation with its SAP cloud migration
“Talk about tough times, right?” That’s how Dan Stuart, Senior Vice President of IT Services at Southwire Company, refers to the months following a December 2019 ransomware event, and the COVID crisis that began in spring of 2020. Those events hit just as the company was preparing for an overhaul of their SAP environment. This […]
GCP – OpenTelemetry Trace 1.0 is now available
For decades, application development and operations teams have struggled with the best way to generate, collect, and analyze telemetry data from systems and apps. In 2010, we discussed our approach to telemetry and tracing in the Dapper papers, which eventually spawned the open-source OpenCensus project, which merged with OpenTracing to become OpenTelemetry. OpenTelemetry provides a […]
GCP – New blueprint helps secure confidential data in AI Platform Notebooks
Core to Google Cloud’s efforts to be the industry’s most Trusted Cloud is our belief in shared fate – taking an active stake to help customers achieve better security outcomes on our platforms. To make it easier to build security into deployments, we provide opinionated guidance for customers in the form of security blueprints. We […]
GCP – Take the 2021 State of DevOps survey: Shape the future of DevOps
Today, Google Cloud and the DORA research team are excited to announce the launch of the 2021 State of DevOps survey. The survey takes approximately 25 minutes to complete and we’d love to hear from you. Your answers will allow us to better understand the practices that teams are employing to improve software delivery performance […]
GCP – Cloud computing 101: Frequently asked questions
There are a number of terms and concepts in cloud computing, and not everyone is familiar with all of them. To help, we’ve put together a list of common questions, and the meanings of a few of those acronyms. You can find all these, and many more, in our learning resources. What are containers? Containers […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink introduces custom maintenance windows in preview
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration in preview. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics periodically patches the underlying infrastructure of applications with OS and container-image security updates to meet AWS compliance and security goals during the default maintenance windows in each region. You can use UpdateApplicationMaintenanceConfiguration via the CLI or the API to choose […]
GCP – This week’s stories from Google Cloud: April 30, 2021
Here’s a round-up of the key stories we published the week of April 30, 2021. Introducing Open Saves: Open-source cloud-native storage for games Open Saves is a brand-new, purpose-built single interface for multiple storage back ends that’s powered by Google Cloud and developed in partnership with 2K. Now, development teams can store game data without […]
AWS – AWS RoboMaker announces support for Robot Operating System (ROS) 2 Foxy and Gazebo 11
AWS RoboMaker, now supports ROS 2 Foxy Fitzroy (ROS 2 Foxy), which is the latest long-term support (LTS) release for ROS 2, and its compatible simulation engine, Gazebo 11, and Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) operating system. Read More for the details.
AWS – New Developer Desktop Feature in AWS RoboMaker Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
AWS RoboMaker has released a new feature that enables developers to open a desktop session to the IDE and run graphical tools to interact with simulations. AWS RoboMaker IDE provides a cloud robotics workspace that is preconfigured with the essential tools to start building and testing robot applications without needing to provision additional hardware. This […]