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AWS – Third-party software built for AWS Control Tower is now available in the AWS Control Tower Console, powered by AWS Marketplace
We are pleased to announce that AWS Control Tower customers can discover a curated collection of third-party software built for AWS Control Tower from within the AWS Control Tower Console. You can choose from professional services and software solutions including identity management, security for a multi-account environment, centralized networking, operational intelligence, Security Information and Event […]

AWS – AWS Secrets Manager Delivers Provider for Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver
Today, AWS Secrets Manager launched the AWS Secrets and Configuration Provider (ASCP), a plugin for the industry-standard Kubernetes’ Secrets Store CSI driver. ASCP enables applications running in Kubernetes pods to retrieve secrets from AWS Secrets Manager easily, without the need for custom code. Once installed, ASCP ensures your applications always receive the most recent version […]

GCP – This week on the Google Cloud blog: April 25, 2021
Here’s a round-up of the key stories we published the week of April 25, 2021. Colossus under the hood: a peek into Google’s scalable storage system Get a deeper look at the storage infrastructure behind your VMs, specifically the Colossus file system, and how it helps enable massive scalability and data durability for Google services […]

GCP – Earth Week in the cloud
Although Earth Day was April 22, at Google Cloud we take sustainability seriously so we celebrated Earth Day all week long. We didn’t want you to miss a thing, so we’re recapping all our news from Earth Week in one handy location. Faster, cheaper, greener? Pick the Google Cloud region that’s right for you When it comes to […]

AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.

GCP – Curious about Google Cloud Bare Metal Solution? Start here.
So you’ve decided to migrate your business to the cloud—good call! There are many workloads that are easy to lift and shift to the cloud, but there are also specialized workloads (such as Oracle) that are difficult to migrate to a cloud environment due to complicated licensing, hardware, and support requirements. Bare Metal Solution provides […]

GCP – 5 resources to help you get started with SRE
Site reliability engineering (SRE) is an essential part of engineering at Google—it’s a mindset, and a set of practices, metrics, and prescriptive ways to ensure systems reliability. But not everyone knows the best places to start to implement SRE in their own organizations. Here are our top resources at Google Cloud for getting started. 1. […]

GCP – Whitepaper: hold your own key with Google Cloud External Key Manager
We want to help customers use Google Cloud while trusting us less. This is the philosophy behind a lot of our security work, as we’ve described before. It’s part of our vision for a trusted cloud, our plan to build technologies and strategies that earn greater trust. To that end, we are releasing a new […]

GCP – Data analytics and intelligence tools to play a key role post-COVID
As we think about economic recovery from COVID-19—both inside Google and outside through working with Google Cloud customers—we’ve made many important observations. Among them is the recognition that the ways software developers and IT practitioners work together will shift in the post COVID-19 world. Our economic recovery today will look different than past recoveries, and […]
GCP – Introducing PHP on Cloud Functions
Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, is a lightweight, easy-to-use compute platform for creating single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to events, without having to manage a server or runtime environment. Cloud Functions is a great fit for serverless, application, mobile or IoT backends, real-time data processing systems, video, image and sentiment […]