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GCP – Functions, events, triggers oh my! How to build event-driven app
Today, many developers want to design applications using an event-driven architecture (EDA). This software architecture paradigm promotes the production, detection, consumption of, and reaction to events. It’s an architectural pattern best applied to design and implement applications and systems that transmit events among loosely-coupled software components and services. You can build event-driven applications using Cloud […]
GCP – SenseData’s journey with Google Cloud’s managed database services
Editor’s note: Learn how SenseData helps Brazilian companies embrace customer success, rapidly evolving their products on Google Cloud and Google managed database services. SenseData has grown from a handful of customers to 140, manages multi-terabytes of data, and is now moving to Google BigQuery for data warehousing. SenseData is a customer success company, and we […]
GCP – Trust Google Cloud more with ubiquitous data encryption
As you move data to the cloud, you face the important question of how to verifiably protect data from unauthorized access without limiting your options for storage and processing. Using public cloud services requires you to place inherent trust in your cloud provider, which can be uncomfortable for your most sensitive data and workloads. On […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Monitor Query SDK
The new Azure Monitor Query SDK is now generally available for .NET, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Python, allowing developers to build apps that perform read-only queries in Azure Monitor’s Logs and Metrics platform. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Windows Server 2019 Bundles Now Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now supports automatic data expiration by using Time to Live (TTL) settings. With TTL, you set expiration times on attributes or rows in your tables, and Keyspaces automatically deletes those expired attributes or rows. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Cross region replication for Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files supports cross region replication for disaster-recovery (DR) purposes and provides frequent, efficient and cost-effective volume and snapshot replication between Azure standard and non-standard region pairs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppFlow is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. With AppFlow, you can run data flows at enterprise scale between Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications like Salesforce, SAP, Zendesk, Slack, and ServiceNow, and AWS services like Amazon […]
GCP – Trying out source-based deployment in Cloud Run
Until recently, this is how you deployed code to Cloud Run: Define your container-based app with a Dockerfile. Build the container image and push it to the Container Registry (typically with Cloud Build). Deploy the container image to Cloud Run. Back in December, we announced the beta release of source-based deployments for Cloud Run. This […]
AWS – Introducing the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners
Today, we announced the AWS Networking Competency for Consulting Partners. These partners have deep domain expertise in developing a consistent network and security policy, as well as solutions that offer a new way of routing traffic through private backbones and cloud cores. AWS Networking Competency Consulting Partners can help customers provide secure ingresses and convenient on-ramps […]