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Azure – Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now in public preview
Set time-based policies or legal holds on data so that the data becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable and protect all versions of a blob. Read More for the details.
Azure – Start VM on connect capability in Azure Virtual Desktop enters general availability
Start VM on Connect will help you optimize the costs of your deployment by offering a configuration setting in the service to start stopped or deallocated VMs when needed. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports the openCypher query language
Amazon Neptune announced support for openCypher, a popular query language for building applications with graph databases. Developers can now use openCypher with Amazon Neptune, giving them more choices to build or migrate graph applications to a highly available, secure, and fully managed graph database. Support for openCypher is compatible with our customers’ existing property graphs and […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune ML is now generally available with support for edge predictions, automation, and more
Amazon Neptune ML, a machine learning capability for graphs that uses Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), is now generally available in all regions where Amazon Neptune is available. Using the Deep Graph Library (DGL), an open-source library to which AWS contributes, Neptune ML automates the heavy lifting of selecting and training the best ML model for […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds support for trimmed mean statistics
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for the trimmed mean statistic on CloudWatch Metrics. With trimmed mean statistics, customers gain visibility on the average performance of a metric without the noise of outliers. Trends in average performance represented by the trimmed mean can be visualized on CloudWatch Dashboards or used to set thresholds in alarms for proactive […]
GCP – Securing the software development lifecycle with Cloud Build and SLSA
One of the biggest challenges for software developers is the need to make informed choices about the external software and products they use in their own software systems. Evaluating whether a given system is appropriately secured can be challenging, especially if it’s external or owned by a third party. This so-called software supply chain has […]
GCP – What’s new with Google Cloud’s infrastructure – Q2 edition
What a difference a quarter makes. In the span of just three months, Google Cloud teams deliver a raft of new, innovative capabilities for compute, networking, storage, serverless and containers. In this quarterly bulletin, we’re highlighting the key updates that dropped in Q2 2021, for each of the product areas that make up our Infrastructure […]
GCP – Getting the most out of Cloud IDS for advanced network threat detection
Google Cloud IDS, now available in preview, delivers cloud-native, managed, network-based threat detection, built with Palo Alto Networks’ industry-leading threat detection technologies to provide high levels of security efficacy. Cloud IDS can help customers gain deep insight into network-based threats and support industry-specific compliance goals that call for the use of an intrusion detection system. […]
GCP – Why retailers should run in our trusted cloud
Whether they were ready for it or not, the COVID-19 pandemic transformed many retailers into digital businesses. Retailers made huge investments into commerce technologies, customer experience tools, sales and fulfillment technology, and improving digital experiences to continue providing their goods and services to their customers. Now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, digital […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Query processing
BigQuery is capable of some truly impressive feats, be it scanning billions of rows based on a regular expression, joining large tables, or completing complex ETL tasks with just a SQL query. One advantage of BigQuery (and SQL in general), is it’s declarative nature. Your SQL indicates your requirements, but the system is responsible for […]