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AWS – AWS CodePipeline now available in Europe South (Milan) region
Starting today, AWS CodePipeline is now available in the Europe South (Milan) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Discover, review, and remediate unintended access to Secrets Manager secrets using IAM Access Analyzer
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer now analyzes AWS Secrets Manager resource-based policies to help you discover secrets that can be accessed publicly or from other accounts or organizations. IAM Access Analyzer makes it easier to identify and remediate unintended public, cross-account, or cross-organization sharing of your Secrets Manager secrets. This helps you […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service extends encryption at rest and node-to-node encryption to existing domains
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports encryption of data at rest and node-to-node encryption on existing domains, enabling organizations hosting sensitive workloads to meet stringent security and compliance requirements. Read More for the details.
GCP – Spoiled for choice: Deploying to 3 serverless platforms
I made a webapp called Hot Maze and tried to deploy it to App Engine, to Cloud Functions, and to Cloud Run. This is what I learned in the process. What is Hot Maze Hot Maze is a web page that lets you share a photo or a document from your computer to your phone, […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 1 new integration globally and adds 5 integrations to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Security Hub is now integrated with Cloud Storage Security: Antivirus for Amazon S3. Cloud Storage Security uses the AWS Security Finding Format (ASFF) to send findings to Security Hub. Security Hub’s integrations with Forcepoint CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker), Forcepoint DLP (Data Loss Prevention), Forcepoint NGFW (Next-Generation Firewall), Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Compute […]
GCP – How to build demand forecasting models with BigQuery ML
Retail businesses have a “goldilocks” problem when it comes to inventory: don’t stock too much, but don’t stock too little. With potentially millions of products, for a data science and engineering team to create multi-millions of forecasts is one thing, but to procure and manage the infrastructure to handle continuous model training and forecasting, this […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports tempdb on local instance store with R5d and M5d instance types
Starting today, you can launch Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 R5d and Amazon EC2 M5d instance types with tempdb configured to use local instance storage. By placing tempdb data files and log files locally, you can achieve lower read and write latencies when compared to the standard EBS […]
GCP – Retailers find flexible demand forecasting models in BigQuery ML
Retail businesses understand the value of demand forecasting—using their intuition, product and market experience, and seasonal patterns and cycles to plan for future demand. Beyond the need for forecasts that are as accurate as possible, modern retailers also face the challenge of being able to perform demand planning at scale. Product assortments that span tens […]
GCP – The evolution of data architecture at The New York Times
Like virtually every business across the globe, The New York Times had to quickly adapt to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic last year. Fortunately, our data system with Google Cloud positioned us to perform quickly and efficiently in the new normal. How we use data We have an end-to-end type of data platform; on […]
GCP – Respond to customers faster and more accurately with Dialogflow CX
Contact center agents have become a lifeline for many businesses. They are on the front lines of generating revenue and delivering great customer experiences—all while working from home. Contact center leaders can equip their human agents with the tools they need to be more productive with Google Cloud AI’s new advanced Virtual Agents available in […]