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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds Control Plane API Usage Metrics across AWS Services
Amazon CloudWatch now gives operators and developers visibility and actionable insights into their utilization of control plane APIs across AWS services. You can find API call count metrics organized by AWS service in the CloudWatch console, and search and discover usage metrics from thousands available in the AWS/Usage namespace. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: Disaster Recovery for AWS IoT
We are delighted to announce the addition of Disaster Recovery for AWS IoT to the AWS Solutions Implementations portfolio. AWS Solutions Implementations help you solve common problems and build faster using the AWS platform. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QLDB supports IAM-based access policy for PartiQL queries and ledger tables
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) now supports enhanced Amazon Identity Access Management (IAM) based permissions for QLDB authentication, query, and data access. This release builds on the existing Amazon QLDB permissions model, adding separation of access by PartiQL command and ledger table. With this feature, QLDB customers will now be able to implement more […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 55 is now generally available – April 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides improvements, fixes, updated replication support, and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.1 with accurate audio/video synchronization
NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Chrome is easing the enterprise’s transition to hybrid work. Here’s how
It’s been quite a year. In general, and for work. Just the other day, I read a new study from Pew Research that shows 71% of people are currently working from home, and 50% of employees say they want to continue working from home at least three days a week. That’s more than half of […]
GCP – Introducing logical replication and decoding for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
Last week, we announced the Preview of Datastream, our serverless and easy-to-use change data capture and replication service. Datastream currently supports access to streaming, low-latency data from Oracle and MySQL databases into Google Cloud services such as Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, and BigQuery. With this in mind, we understand that our customers are using different […]
GCP – PedidosYa: BigQuery reduced our total cost per query by 5x
Editor’s note: PedidosYa is the market leader for online food ordering in Latin America, serving 15 markets and over 400 cities. It’s also one of the largest brands within the German multinational company Delivery Hero SE. With over 20 million app downloads, PedidosYa provides the best online delivery experience through 71,000+ online partners, including restaurants, […]
GCP – DevOps on Google Cloud: tools to speed up software development velocity
Editor’s note: Today we hear from ForgeRock, a multinational identity and access management software company with more than 1,100 enterprise customers, including a major public broadcaster. In total, customers use the ForgeRock Identity Platform to authenticate and log in over 45 million users daily, helping them manage identity, governance, and access management across all platforms, […]
GCP – New Cloud TPU VMs make training your ML models on TPUs easier than ever
Today, we’re excited to announce new Cloud TPU VMs, which make it easier than ever before to use our industry-leading TPU hardware by providing direct access to TPU host machines, offering a new and improved user experience to develop and deploy TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX on Cloud TPUs. Instead of accessing Cloud TPUs remotely over […]