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GCP – Saving the day: How Cloud SQL makes data protection easy
If you’re managing a crucial application that has to be fully fault-tolerant, you need your system to be able to handle every fault, no matter the type and scope of failure, with minimal downtime and data loss. Protecting against these faults means juggling numerous variables that can impact performance as well as recovery time and […]
GCP – Monitor and troubleshoot your VMs in context for faster resolution
Troubleshooting production issues with virtual machines (VMs) can be complex and often requires correlating multiple data points and signals across infrastructure and application metrics, as well as raw logs. When your end users are experiencing latency, downtime, or errors, switching between different tools and UIs to perform a root cause analysis can slow your developers […]
GCP – Announcing our first-ever Google Cloud Startup Summit on September 9, 2021
We’re excited to announce our first-ever Google Cloud Startup Summit will be taking place on September 9, 2021. At Google Cloud, we’re invested in helping maximize your potential using all that Google has to offer. From my experience in venture capital, mentoring founders and working in the technology industry, I know how important it can […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now supports AWS IAM roles as approvers
Change Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now allows you to specify AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role as approvers for change requests and change templates. Change Manager simplifies the way you can request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes to your application configuration and infrastructure on AWS and on-premises. Now, you […]
GCP – New Google Cloud study: Cloud adoption increasing in financial services, but more guidance needed from regulators
The financial services industry is evolving at a rapid pace, with shifting consumer expectations, new technologies, and developing regulatory requirements. Financial services firms need the right technology to help them stay agile and prepare for the future. The cloud is a key point of leverage for firms looking to improve performance across a broad range […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports ML inference at the edge with Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager and AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS Snow Family now supports AWS IoT Greengrass version 2.0 or higher, which makes it easier for you to build IoT solutions and run ML inference on Snowball Edge and Snowcone devices. With support for AWS IoT Greengrass on Snow, you can now use Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager to optimize, secure, monitor, and maintain ML […]
GCP – Extend your Dataflow template with UDFs
Google provides a set of Dataflow templates that customers commonly use for frequent data tasks, but also as reference data pipelines that developers can extend. But what if you want to customize a Dataflow template without modifying or maintaining the Dataflow template code itself? With user-defined functions (UDFs), customers can extend certain Dataflow templates with […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points, a feature of Amazon S3 that allows you to easily manage access for shared data lakes. Using your S3 Access Point alias, you can simplify your data access at scale on Amazon EMR. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to create and manage deployments from their code or image repositories using AWS App Runner. AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 14 on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read More for the details.
