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GCP – Mercury Rising in BigQuery with Multistatement Transactions
Mercury, the Roman god of commerce, is often depicted carrying a purse, symbolic of business transactions, wearing winged sandals, illustrating his abilities to move at great speeds. Transactions power the world’s business systems today, ranging from millions of packages moving worldwide tracked in real time by logistics companies to global payments from personal loans to […]
GCP – Announcing the 2021 State of DevOps Report Sponsors
Google Cloud and the DORA research team are excited to announce our eight sponsors for the 2021 State of DevOps report. We recently launched the 2021 State of DevOps survey, a 25-min survey for the DevOps community to share how they are using DevOps to improve software delivery performance. So if you haven’t taken the […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in Asia Pacific (Osaka). Read More for the details.
AWS – IAM Access Analyzer adds new policy checks to help validate conditions during IAM policy authoring
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer makes it easier for customers to author secure and functional permissions by providing over 100 policy checks with actionable recommendations during policy authoring. Now, IAM Access Analyzer extended policy validation by adding new policy checks that validate conditions included in IAM policies. These checks analyze the condition block in your […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Modules are now available in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS CloudFormation Modules are now available in AWS GovCloud (US). A Module encapsulates one or more AWS or Non-AWS resources and their configurations for reuse across your organization. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports SASL/PLAIN authentication for functions triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka
AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from self-managed Apache Kafka topics can now access usernames and passwords secured by AWS Secrets Manager using SASL/PLAIN, a simple username/password authentication mechanism that is typically used with TLS for encryption to implement secure authentication. This is in addition to SASL/SCRAM, which is already supported on Lambda. To get started, customers […]
GCP – Use Vertex Pipelines to build an AutoML classification end-to-end workflow
Introduction This post shows how you can use Vertex Pipelines to build an end-to-end ML workflow. The workflow trains a custom model using AutoML; evaluates the accuracy of the trained model; and if the model is sufficiently accurate, deploys it to Vertex AI for serving. Vertex AI and Vertex Pipelines The recently-launched Vertex AI is […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for SQL Server: Database administration best practices
Cloud SQL for SQL Serveris a fully-managed database service that makes it easy to set up, maintain and administer SQL Server databases on Google Cloud Platform. While Cloud SQL reduces much of the operational toil, the SQL Server Databases running on Cloud SQL still require administration in order to perform optimally. This blog covers key […]
Azure – Limited Preview: New Azure VMs for confidential workloads
New DCsv3 and DCdsv3-series Azure Virtual Machines transform the state-of-the-art for confidential workloads Read More for the details.
GCP – Dataflow, the backbone of data analytics
Data is generated in real-time from websites, mobile apps, IoT devices,and other workloads. Capturing, processing and analyzing this data is a priority for all businesses. But, data from these systems is not often in the format that is conducive for analysis or for effective use, by downstream systems. That’s where Dataflow comes in! Dataflow is […]