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GCP – Create alerts from your logs, available now in Preview
Being alerted to an issue with your application before your customers experience undue interruption is a goal of every development and operations team. While methods for identifying problems exist in many forms, including uptime checks and application tracing, alerts on logs is a prominent method for issue detection. Previously, Cloud Logging only supported alerts on […]

GCP – Beyond malloc efficiency to fleet efficiency
The “memory wall” has been a long-standing challenge in computer hardware design—CPUs are getting faster and faster, but bandwidth and latency to main memory (or worse, to disk) haven’t kept up. The large working sets of data center workloads have exacerbated this problem, causing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) misses to become a large portion of […]

GCP – Introducing Quilkin: open-source UDP proxies built for game server communication
Traditionally, dedicated game servers for real time multiplayer games have used bespoke UDP protocols for communication and synchronization of gameplay among the players within a game. This communication is most often bundled into monolithic game servers and clients, pairing the technical functionality of communication protocols, such as custom network physics synchronisation, security, access control, telemetry […]

AWS – AWS IoT Core now supports VPC Endpoints
AWS IoT Core is now integrated with AWS PrivateLink, enabling you to create private IoT Core data endpoints in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using Interface VPC Endpoints. AWS PrivateLink is an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, such as IoT Core, by using private IP addresses that are […]

GCP – Reaffirming Google Cloud’s commitments to EU businesses in light of the EDPB’s Recommendations
From retail companies to auto manufacturers and financial services institutions, organizations across Europe rely on our cloud services to run their businesses. We are committed to helping our customers meet stringent data protection requirements by offering industry-leading technical controls, contractual commitments, and continued transparency to support their risk assessments and compliance needs. On June 21, […]

GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Delhi NCR is now open
In the past year, Google has worked to surface timely and reliable health information, amplify public health campaigns, and help nonprofits get urgent support to Indians in need. Now, we are continuing to focus on helping India’s businesses accelerate their digital transformation, deepening our commitment to India’s digitization and economic recovery. To support customers and […]

Azure – Session and cache provider using Azure Cosmos DB in general availability
Use Azure Cosmos DB as a session state and cache provider through Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Cosmos extension package for global scaling and low latency. Read More for the details.

GCP – Extending access to Google Meet for Glass Enterprise Edition
Open beta now available to all Google Workspace customers Seeing is believing. For many service technicians, trainers, and other frontline workers, the ability to share a real-time view of what they can see with their virtual clients or teams can make all the difference. That’s what we’ve heard from global participants in the closed beta […]

Azure – Azure Maps Creator v1 will be retired on 6 September 2021
Transition to Azure Maps Creator v2 by 6 September 2021 Read More for the details.
Azure – Limited preview: Migrate your Azure Data Lake Storage from Gen1 to Gen2 using the Azure Portal
Use this simple experience to migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights. Read More for the details.