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GCP – Admin Essentials: Understanding Policy Precedence for Chrome browser
Many IT teams today have to balance keeping their organization secure and ensuring their employees can be productive. Chrome browser has hundreds of enterprise policies to choose from to support these two priorities. These policies are available across on-prem and cloud options, and can be configured at different levels for maximum flexibility for IT teams. […]
GCP – Reclaim time and talent with AppSheet Automation
Digital transformation has been an enterprise priority for years, butrecent Google Cloud research reinforces that the mandate is more pressing today than ever, with most companies increasing their technology investments over the last year. While there are many dependencies shaping the future of work, the challenge is to leverage technology to support shifting work cultures. […]
GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Warsaw is open
Since Google opened its first office in Poland over 15 years ago, we have been supporting the country’s growing digital economy, providing our partners and customers with cutting-edge technology, knowledge and global insights. With our announcement of a strategic partnership with Poland’s Domestic Cloud Provider in September 2019, we further committed to bring the power […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user’s IAM role activity to their corporate identity
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now provides the ability to easily identify the user responsible for an AWS action performed while assuming an IAM role. By setting the new source identity attribute, which gets logged in AWS CloudTrail for most actions, you can easily find out who is responsible for actions performed using IAM […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, and 9.5.25
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, and 9.5.25. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. This also includes the final release of PostgreSQL 9.5. […]
AWS – AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance
AWS Batch has increased a variety of performance characteristics, including job scheduling speed for EC2 Compute Environments, EC2 instance scaling reactivity, and most AWS Batch APIs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics
Today we are announcing the availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). You can use these metrics to monitor the performance of your live streams. The new ConcurrentStreams metric provides a count of your channels which are streaming live and the new ConcurrentViews metric provides the number of […]
AWS – Updated classroom course: Systems Operations on AWS
We are excited to announce the launch of our updated three-day classroom course, Systems Operations on AWS. This course helps you build and demonstrate your skills in configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting your AWS environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets. Read More for the details.
GCP – Optimizing object storage costs in Google Cloud: location and classes
Storage is a critical component of any cloud-based infrastructure. Without a place to store and serve your data, databases won’t work, compute can’t run, and networks have nowhere to put the data they’re carrying. Storage is one of the top three cloud expenses for many customers, and most companies’ storage needs are only growing. It’s […]