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AWS – Amazon EBS announces CloudWatch metrics with 1-minute granularity on all EBS volume types
We are excited to announce that all Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types now receive CloudWatch metrics with 1-minute granularity at no additional cost. You can use CloudWatch metrics to monitor the performance and status of your Amazon EBS volumes. Additionally, you can use CloudWatch alarms to automatically perform actions or send SNS […]
GCP – New white paper: Strengthening operational resilience in financial services by migrating to Google Cloud
Operational resilience continues to be a key focus for financial services firms. Regulators from around the world are refocusing supervisory approaches on operational resilience to support the soundness of financial firms and the stability of the financial ecosystem. Our new white paper discusses the continuing importance of operational resilience to the financial services sector, and […]
Azure – 99.99% uptime for Azure Active Directory Premium customers is coming April 1st, 2021
SLA for Azure AD is increasing the up-time commitment to 99.99% for Azure AD Premium customers to support the need for an Identity service with high resilience and low interruptions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Lifecycle of a container on Cloud Run
Editor’s note: Today’s post comes from Wietse Venema, a software engineer and trainer at Binx.io and the author of the O’Reilly book about Google Cloud Run. In today’s post, Wietse shares how understand the full container lifecycle, and the possible state transitions within it, so you can make the most of Cloud Run. Serverless platform Cloud Run runs and autoscales […]
Azure – Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Confluent and Microsoft have worked together to enable seamless integration experience between Azure and Confluent Cloud – a managed Apache Kafka service. This service will enable you to provision Confluent Cloud resources using Azure client interfaces like portal/CLI/SDKs. Other integration points include single sign-on using Azure Active directory and unified billing through Azure with an […]
Azure – South Central US Availability Zones now generally available
Azure Availability Zones are now generally available in the South Central US region. These three new zones provide customers with options for additional resiliency and tolerance to infrastructure impact. Read More for the details.
Azure – Germany West Central Availability Zones now generally available
Microsoft is pleased to announce that Azure Availability Zones are now generally available from the Germany West Central datacenter region. Azure Availability Zones (AZs) feature in the broad portfolio of services and products that enable organizations to create resilient, highly available applications for mission-critical workloads. Read More for the details.
GCP – BeyondCorp Enterprise: Introducing a safer era of computing
Security issues continue to disrupt the status quo for global enterprises. Recent incidents highlight the need to re-think our security plans and operations; attackers are getting smarter, attacks are more sophisticated, and assumptions about what is and isn’t locked down no longer hold. The challenge, however, is to enable disruptive innovation in security without disrupting […]
GCP – How our customers modernize business intelligence with BigQuery and Looker
Businesses increasingly gather data to better understand their customers, products, marketing, and more. But unlocking valuable and meaningful insights from that data requires powerful, reliable, and scalable solutions. We hear from our BigQuery and Looker customers that they’ve been able to modernize business intelligence (BI) and allow self-service discovery on the data the business collects. […]
GCP – Show me the money! How you can see returns up to $259M with a DevOps Transformation
2020 challenged some of the best laid plans by enterprises. With nearly everything moving online, Covid-19 pushed forward years of digital transformation. DevOps was at the heart of this transformation journey. After all, delivering software quickly, reliably, and safely to meet the changing needs of customers was crucial to adapt to this new normal. It […]