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AWS – AWS App2Container now supports ECS Fargate Windows
AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports deployment of containerized Windows applications to AWS Fargate for ECS Windows containers. With this feature, users can now target AWS Fargate for ECS Windows containers as deployment runtime in addition to ECS and EKS that were previously supported. Using App2Container, developers can take a running Windows based .NET application or […]
GCP – FLYR Labs applies AI and machine learning to help airlines reach new heights
The global pandemic created additional challenges in our already complex, competitive industry and resulted in an estimated$370B in lost airline revenues. It’s well known that airlines need to fill as many seats as possible—at the best possible fares—to maximize revenue. Yet with so many variables impacting flights and travelers today enjoying more options than ever, […]
GCP – Django ORM support for Cloud Spanner is now Generally Available
Today we’re happy to announce GA support for Google Cloud Spanner in the Django ORM. The django-google-spanner package is a third-party database backend for Cloud Spanner, powered by the Cloud Spanner Python client library. The Django ORM is a powerful standalone component of the Django web framework that maps Python objects to relational data. It […]
GCP – Video walkthrough: Set up a multiplayer game server with Google Cloud
Imagine that you’re playing a video game with a friend, hosting the game on your own machine. You’re both having a great time—until you need to shut down your computer and the game world ceases to exist for everyone until you’re back online. With a multiplayer server in the cloud, you can solve this problem […]
GCP – Quickly, easily and affordably back up your data with BigQuery table snapshots
Mistakes are part of human nature. Who hasn’t left their car unlocked or accidentally hit “reply all” on an email intended to be private? But making mistakes in your enterprise data warehouse, such as accidentally deleting or modifying data, can have a major impact on your business. BigQuery time travel, which is automatically enabled for […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: October 2021
October has been a busy month for Google Cloud. We just held our annual conference, Google Cloud Next ‘21, where we made significant security announcements for our customers of all sizes and geographies. It’s also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month where our security teams across Google delivered important research on new threat campaigns and product updates […]
GCP – As email turns 50, the @ symbol continues to fuel collaboration
Like many technical breakthroughs, email began as an experiment. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, a recent graduate of MIT, was looking for interesting problems to solve. He was hired to help build ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet, and during his first year on the job he came up with a simple yet ingenious way […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports phone call recording
The Amazon Chime SDK is a service that makes it easy for developers to add real-time audio, video, screen sharing, and messaging capabilities to their applications. With the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) audio APIs, developers can build customized telephony applications like voice menus, click-to-call, and call routing using the agility and operational simplicity of […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6i instances. C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, […]
AWS – AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Windows containers. This feature simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for Amazon ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS. Read More for the details.