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GCP – Do more with less: Introducing Cloud SQL Cost optimization recommendations with Active Assist
With Cloud SQL, teams spend less time on database operations and maintenance and more time on innovation and digital transformation efforts. This increased bandwidth for strategic work can sometimes lead to significant growth in database fleet size, which in turn can introduce operational complexity when it comes to managing cost. If your financial operations team […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: September 2021
We’re busy getting ready for Google Cloud Next ‘21 where we’re excited to talk about the latest updates to our security portfolio and new ways we’re committing to help all of our customers build securely with our cloud. Here are a few sessions you don’t want to miss with our Google Cloud security experts and […]

GCP – Supercharge your Cloud NAT: Introducing new Cloud NAT features
Introduction Cloud NAT is our fully-managed, proxy-less, Network Address Translation offering. It is completely implemented at the Andromeda SDN layer, offering superior performance and effortless scale. With it, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads can access internet resources in a scalable and secure manner, without exposing the workloads running on them to outside […]

GCP – Improve your security posture with new Overly Permissive Firewall Rule Insights
Are you a network security engineer managing large shared VPCs with many projects and applications deployed, and struggling to clean up hundreds of firewall rules accumulated overtime in the VPC firewall rule set? Are you a network admin setting up open firewall rules to accelerate cloud migration, but later struggling to close them down without […]

GCP – Announcing Apigee Integration: An API-first approach for connecting data and applications
Enterprises across the globe are struggling to innovate because their data and applications are siloed, disconnected, and not easily accessible. Today, Google Cloud is announcing the general availability of Apigee Integration, a solution that helps enterprises easily connect their existing data and applications and surface them as easily accessible APIs that can power new experiences. […]


AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports Microsoft SQL Server Always On deployments on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Following the launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Microsoft SQL Server for Amazon EC2, you can now easily deploy RHEL SQL Server Always On availability groups using AWS Launch Wizard. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect now offers high-volume outbound communications for calls, texts, and emails
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AWS – Application Load Balancer now enables AWS PrivateLink and static IP addresses by direct integration with Network Load Balancer
Elastic Load Balancing now supports forwarding traffic directly from Network Load Balancer (NLB) to Application Load Balancer (ALB). With this feature, you can now use AWS PrivateLink and expose static IP addresses for applications built on ALB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Voice ID is now generally available
Amazon Connect Voice ID is a Machine Learning (ML) powered voice authentication feature for Amazon Connect that makes voice interactions in contact centers more secure and efficient. Historically, contact centers have used a time-consuming knowledge-based authentication process where callers have to answer multiple questions based on personal details, such as social security number or date […]