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GCP – Google Workspace at Next ‘21: 10 sessions you don’t want to miss
We’re less than two weeks away from Google Cloud Next, October 12-14, 2021, our flagship event that brings the cloud community together for insights, product launches, and to see the latest tech in action. At Next ‘21, you’ll find the tools and training you need to succeed in the cloud, with live, expert-led Q&As, breakout […]
GCP – Simplifying App Engine updates: extending support for bundled services
Today, we’re announcing changes to App Engine to make it easier for early adopters to modernize their applications. When App Engine launched in 2008, it was designed as a stand-alone platform and included a number of proprietary bundled services. In 2018, we announced second-generation App Engine standard runtimes, which unlocked contemporary versions of Python, Java, […]
GCP – Building and expanding network services for a smart and connected world
Organizations are increasingly adopting multicloud implementations and hybrid deployments as a part of their cloud strategy. Networking is at the foundation of this digital transformation. Google has built a massive planet-scale network infrastructure serving billions of users every day. Our global network continues to expand in footprint with four new regions announced this year in […]
GCP – N2 VMs with Intel processor refresh enables over 30% better price-performance
Today, we’re excited to announce the upcoming availability of new Compute Engine N2 VMs powered by the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor (code-named Ice Lake) and new larger N2 machine shapes. N2 VMs with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors run at 2.6GHz base frequency and 3.4GHz sustained all core turbo and offer 30% or better […]
GCP – Cloud Armor bot management with reCAPTCHA Enterprise
Unwelcome web traffic from bots has proliferated, becoming a significant contributor to business and operational risk. The motivations of bot controllers range from disruption of business through DDoS attacks to fraud such as credential stuffing, denial of inventory, scraping, and fraudulent card use. Google is well positioned to help detect and mitigate these risks by […]
Azure – Az module support in Azure Automation is now available
Azure Automation now supports Az-module by default for all new Automation Accounts. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Automation Hybrid Worker Extension for Azure and Arc-enabled servers now in public preview
Onboard Azure Automation User Hybrid Runbook Worker based on VM extension platform for Azure Virtual machines and Arc-enabled servers. The extension-based platform leverages Azure Active Directory authentication. Read More for the details.
GCP – Monitoring feature attributions: How Google saved one of the largest ML services in trouble
An emergency in the largest MLOps at Google Claudiu Gruia is a software engineer at Google who works on machine learning (ML) models that recommend content to billions of users daily. In Oct 2019, Claudiu was notified by an alert from a monitoring service. A specific model feature (let us call this feature F1) had […]
AWS – AWS Device Farm announces support for testing web apps on Microsoft Edge browser
AWS Device Farm’s Desktop Browser Testing feature lets you test your web applications on different versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer browsers. With today’s launch, we are adding support for the Microsoft Edge browser. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 now offers Global View on the console to view all resources across regions together
You can now view your AWS resources such as Instances, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Volumes across AWS Regions. Previously, finding specific resources, monitoring for their status or taking inventory in the console was manual and time consuming. You had to know which region a particular instance resided in, or had to manually switch across multiple […]