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GCP – How Wunderkind scales up to 200K requests per second using Google Cloud
Editor’s note: We’re hearing here how martech provider Wunderkind easily met the scaling demands of their growing customer base on multiple use cases with Cloud Bigtable and other Google Cloud data solutions. Wunderkind is a performance marketing channel and we mostly have two kinds of customers: online retailers, and publishers like Gizmodo Media Group, Reader’s […]

AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces DeepRacer LIVE races
Starting today, racers from anywhere in the world can compete with each other virtually and in real-time from within the AWS DeepRacer Console while colleagues, friends, and family watch a LIVE broadcast of the event online. Previously only available to qualifiers in the AWS DeepRacer League’s monthly Pro Division finale, this new LIVE event option […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. For a list of regions where AWS Glue DataBrew is available, see the AWS Region Table. […]

AWS – Now view inventory and patch compliance of stopped instances using AWS Systems Manager
Patch Manager, a feature of AWS Systems Manager, now provides a more holistic view of the patch compliance and inventory of your fleet of instances by additionally reporting on stopped instances. This feature helps you to further simplify patch compliance and inventory reporting because information is now readily available for stopped instances. Read More for […]

GCP – How to provide better search results with AI ranking
Every IT team wants to get the right information to employees and vendors as quickly as possible. Yet the task is always getting harder as more information becomes available and results invariably become stale. Disparate internal systems hold vital information. Search capabilities are not consistent across tools. No universal system exists. And even inside Google […]

Azure – Disk pool for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
With disk pool, Azure VMware Solution customers can now access Azure Disk Storage for high-performance, durable block storage. Customer can scale their storage independent of compute and handle their growing data needs more cost-effectively. Read More for the details.

Azure – Now available: Azure Purview product glossary
The Azure Purview product glossary provides comprehensive set of product terms and definitions used in Azure Purview features and functionality. Read More for the details.

GCP – UCLA: Building the future of higher education technology with APIs
Imagine you work at a university, and every time you need to use department funds to pay for something, you’re required to go through a protracted, multi-step process. Or suppose you’re a student trying to review your academic record, then browse and enroll in classes you need– but different parts of the process are scattered […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Automation Customer Managed Keys
Encrypt your Automation account assests using Customer-managed keys. Read More for the details.
GCP – Fresh ingredients to fresh insights: An inside look at Papa John’s data cloud strategy
Editor’s note: In this blog, we look at how Cloud SQL delivered speed, flexibility, and agility to global pizza company Papa John’s International. With more than 5,400 locations in 50 countries and territories, Papa John’s International is one of the largest pizza chains in the world. In 2017, the company took a cloud-first strategy and […]