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AWS – Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces bundle management APIs are now available for customers to perform WorkSpaces bundle operations via command-line interface (CLI). The new set of APIs support creation, deletion, and image association operations for WorkSpaces bundles. These APIs are intended for use by WorkSpaces administrators who want to automate WorkSpaces management workflows. Read More for the details.

GCP – Reduce Deprecation Stress: Understand SDK Dependencies in Google Maps Platform
To improve Google Maps Platform for developers and end users, sometimes we need to deprecate existing functionality. For example, last year when many establishments closed temporarily to limit the spread of COVID-19, we introduced the business_status field to describe a place’s status in a non-binary way and deprecated the permanently_closed field because it cannot accurately […]

Azure – Azure expands PCI DSS certification
You can now leverage Azure’s Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification across all live Azure regions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Event-triggered detection of data drift in ML workflows
With ML workflows, it is often insufficient to train and deploy a given model just once. Even if the model has desired accuracy initially, this can change if the data used for making prediction requests becomes—perhaps over time—sufficiently different from the data used to originally train the model. When new data becomes available, which could […]

GCP – New research on how COVID-19 changed the nature of IT
The impact of COVID-19 was felt everywhere, and the world of IT—and its budgets—was certainly not spared. Yet, along with the general slowdown in IT investment were widespread reports about how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation. To learn more about how organizations are shifting their technology priorities, Google commissioned a study by IDG to […]

GCP – A (visual) space odyssey: How Theta Labs reached the outer limits of video streaming
Theta Labs, a leading decentralized video streaming platform, revolutionized the livestream experience with their peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing distributed ledger technology. And thanks to database and analytics solutions from Google Cloud, Theta Labs has scaled to stay ahead of its growing active user base on their blockchain platform. It was this ability to reach more remote […]

GCP – Multi-layer API security with Apigee and Google Cloud Armor
Information security has become headline news on a daily basis. You have probably heard of security risks ranging from malicious bots used in schemes both big and small, to all-out “software supply chain attacks” that involve large-name enterprises and their customers, and that ultimately affect numerous governments, organizations, and people. As businesses expand their digital […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Glacier announces a 40% price reduction for PUT and Lifecycle requests
Amazon S3 is reducing the cost to move data to Amazon S3 Glacier by lowering PUT and Lifecycle request charges by 40% for all AWS Regions. You can use the S3 PUT API to directly store compliance and backup data in S3 Glacier that does not require immediate access. You can also use S3 Lifecycle policies to […]

GCP – Serving up data from Cloud Storage
Prefer to listen rather than read? Check out this post on the podcast! When it comes to the cloud, there’s more than one way to serve a file. In this post, we’ll walk you through all the ways to serve data from Cloud Storage—so you can determine the best fit for your needs! You can […]
AWS – Achieve up to 35% better price/performance with Amazon Aurora using new Graviton2 instances
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Compatible Edition and Amazon Aurora MySQL Compatible Edition. Graviton2 instances provide up to 20% performance improvement and up to 35% price/performance improvement for Aurora depending on database size. You can also mix and match Graviton2 R6g and Intel R5 instances within the same […]