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GCP – Quickly, easily and affordably back up your data with BigQuery table snapshots
Mistakes are part of human nature. Who hasn’t left their car unlocked or accidentally hit “reply all” on an email intended to be private? But making mistakes in your enterprise data warehouse, such as accidentally deleting or modifying data, can have a major impact on your business. BigQuery time travel, which is automatically enabled for […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: October 2021
October has been a busy month for Google Cloud. We just held our annual conference, Google Cloud Next ‘21, where we made significant security announcements for our customers of all sizes and geographies. It’s also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month where our security teams across Google delivered important research on new threat campaigns and product updates […]
GCP – As email turns 50, the @ symbol continues to fuel collaboration
Like many technical breakthroughs, email began as an experiment. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, a recent graduate of MIT, was looking for interesting problems to solve. He was hired to help build ARPANET, the precursor to the modern internet, and during his first year on the job he came up with a simple yet ingenious way […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports phone call recording
The Amazon Chime SDK is a service that makes it easy for developers to add real-time audio, video, screen sharing, and messaging capabilities to their applications. With the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) audio APIs, developers can build customized telephony applications like voice menus, click-to-call, and call routing using the agility and operational simplicity of […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C6i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of compute optimized Amazon EC2 C6i instances. C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better compute price performance over C5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, […]
AWS – AWS Fargate now supports Amazon ECS Windows containers
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS Windows containers. This feature simplifies the adoption of modern container technology for Amazon ECS customers by making it even easier to run their Windows containers on AWS. Read More for the details.
GCP – Advancing security, management and employee productivity with Google and Jamf
Last week Parisa Tabriz, Head of Chrome Engineering, Product and Design, shared some exciting updates at the Jamf Nation User Conference. She covered a few topics that are key to helping organizations navigate the workplace transformations that are occuring as a result of the pandemic. In this post, I’ll cover some of my team’s work […]
AWS – Amazon EKS Managed Node Groups adds native support for Bottlerocket
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) now adds native support for Bottlerocket in EKS managed node groups in all commercial AWS regions. Most EKS customers today deploy their applications on worker nodes backed by operating systems that are designed for a variety of use cases. AWS launched Bottlerocket, a minimal, Linux-based open source operating system that […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise announces support for using the same asset models across different hierarchies
AWS IoT SiteWise now allows customers to use the same asset model under different asset model hierarchies. With this feature, customers can simplify the asset modeling experience by reducing the number of models required to build a virtual representation of their industrial operations. Previously, for the same type of machine deployed in different production sites, users […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, and 10.18
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, and 10.18. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of life on January 31, 2022. Read […]