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GCP – Road to recovery: How Google Cloud is helping states get the COVID-19 vaccine to more people
Since the beginning stages of the pandemic, state and local governments have turned to technology to help deliver essential services to their residents, whether it’s unemployment assistance or access to COVID-19 testing. Now, state and local leaders are shifting their focus to getting vaccines to more people through mass vaccination initiatives. In February, we announced […]
GCP – The past, present and future of custom compute at Google
Since our inception more than two decades ago, Google has designed and built some of the world’s largest and most efficient computing systems to meet the needs of our customers and users. Custom chips are one way to boost performance and efficiency now that Moore’s Law no longer provides rapid improvements for everyone. Today, we […]
AWS – AWS Fargate updates platform version 1.4.0 to be the LATEST version
AWS Fargate platform version 1.4.0 is now the LATEST version. All new Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Tasks or ECS Services that use the Fargate launch type and have the platformVersion parameter set to LATEST or not specified will run on platform version 1.4.0. The new version has features such as Amazon Elastic File […]
Azure – HBv3-Series VMs now generally available in East US, South Central US, and West Europe
HBv3-series VMs for HPC now available in the East US, South Central US, and West Europe regions Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Proton introduces deletion protection for in-use templates
AWS Proton introduces delete validations for templates in-use, ensuring that dependent resources are not orphaned if a template version is inadvertently deleted. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS reduces cluster creation time by 40%
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has reduced new cluster creation time by 40%, enabling you to create an EKS cluster in 9 minutes or less, on average. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer is now available in additional 9 regions
Starting today, AWS Gateway Load Balancer is available in the following 9 regions: US West (N. California) EU (London) EU (Paris) EU (Milano) Africa (Cape Town) Middle East (Baharain) Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Asia Pacific (Singapore) Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Sphere OS version 21.03 is now available for evaluation
The 21.03 OS quality update includes enhancements to mitigate against 5 CVEs. Read More for the details.
GCP – You make the rules with authentication controls for Cloud Storage
If you’d rather listen to this post in podcast form, check out Google Cloud Reader Once you’ve got your data into Cloud Storage, it’s time for an important conversation about authentication. In this post, we’ll review some critical components for determining who has access to that data. Let’s go back in time, to when you […]
GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting Krikey
March is Women’s History Month – a time for us to come together and celebrate women-led startups in the tech industry. Our third of four features highlights the founders of Krikey — Ketaki Shriram and Jhanvi Shriram —and how they utilize Google Cloud’s easy to use tools to bring diversity into the mobile AR gaming […]