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GCP – Deploying multi-YAML Workflows definitions with Terraform
I’m a big fan of using Workflows to orchestrate and automate services running on Google Cloud and beyond. In Workflows, you can define a workflow in a YAML or JSON file and deploy it using gcloud or using Google Cloud Console. These approaches work but a more declarative and arguably better approach is to use […]
GCP – Deliver zero trust on unmanaged devices with new BeyondCorp Enterprise protected profiles
Modern enterprises rely on vast and complex networks of technologies and skillsets to accomplish their goals. Markets are global, workers are remote, and information needs to be accessible anywhere, while remaining secure. This increasing complexity has led many enterprises to adopt a zero trust approach to security and deploy Google’s BeyondCorp Enterprise, which provides customers […]
GCP – Enhance DDoS protection & get predictable pricing with new Cloud Armor service
Securing websites and applications is a constant challenge for most organizations. To make it easier, we have introduced new capabilities within Cloud Armor over the past year that can help protect your applications. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Google Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus. Cloud Armor, our Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) […]
AWS – AWS SaaS Boost released as an open source project
At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the preview of AWS SaaS Boost, an open source tool that helps software developers migrate their existing solutions to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. SaaS Boost significantly offloads development effort by accelerating application transformation to SaaS, freeing up software developers to focus on features that differentiate their products. After receiving […]
GCP – Translation API Advanced can translate business documents across 100+ languages
Translation is critical to many developers and localization providers, whether you’re releasing a document, a piece of software, training materials or a website in multiple languages. Companies acquire and share content in many languages and formats, and scaling translation to meet this need is a tall order, due to multiple document formats, integrations with OCR, […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization
We are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports partial results stabilization, which further improves the live subtitling experience. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. As Amazon Transcribe processes streaming audio content, it generates partial transcription results until […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps updates for May 2021
There are several new announcements for May 2021 including repos as protected resource in YAML pipelines and updates to Delivery Plans 2.0. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)
AWS Lake Formation now supports tagging data lake resources (databases, tables and columns) and creating logical access control policies based on those tags. Tag-based access control (TBAC) decouples policy creation from resource creation which helps data stewards govern large number of databases, tables, and columns by removing the need to update policies every time a […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports three new application management APIs in preview. RollbackApplication allows you to restore your application to the last running version and application state from the most recent, successful snapshot. ListApplicationVersions allows you to get all application versions and a summary of the associated configurations. DescribeApplicationVersion gives you […]