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AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports a small ARM machine type
AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm-based workloads now run on an additional AWS Graviton2 machine type suited for less-resource intensive workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances – the first EC2 instance optimized for video transcoding
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 VT1 instances powered by Xilinx® Alveo™ U30 media accelerators for video transcoding. VT1 instances are AWS’s first EC2 instances that feature hardware acceleration for video transcoding and are optimized for workloads such as live broadcast, video conferencing, and just-in-time transcoding. These instances deliver up […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 supports configurable autoscaling timeout
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports setting timeout for autoscaling. Based on your application’s needs, you can specify a timeout between 1 and 10 minutes with a default value of 5 minutes. Aurora Serverless v1 looks for a period of no activity to initiate a scaling operation. If the timeout period is reached without such a […]
GCP – Push your code and see your builds happening in your terminal with “git deploy”
If you have used hosting services like Heroku before, you might be familiar with the user workflow where you run “git push heroku main”, and you see your code being pushed, built, and deployed. When your code is received by the remote git server, your build is started. With source-based build triggers in Cloud Build, […]
AWS – AWS Health Aware (AHA) is now available for Organizational and Personal AWS Accounts to customize Health Alerts
AWS Health Aware or AHA, is an incident management & communication framework to ingest proactive and real-time alerts from AWS Health to a customer’s preferred communication channels. Customers using AWS Organizations can get aggregated active account level alerts from impacted accounts across their organization. Alerts can be configured to endpoint(s) such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, […]
GCP – Leveraging Network Telemetry for Forensics in Google Cloud
When it comes to detecting threat actors in your cloud infrastructure, Security Operations teams often need to be able to stitch together various bits of data from logs to help tell a story and validate the presence of an attacker. The three core data sources that help identify patterns of attackers in the cloud are […]
GCP – Run more workloads on Cloud Run with new CPU allocation controls
Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s serverless container platform, offers a very granular pay-per-use pricing, charging you only for CPU and memory when your app processes requests or events. By default, Cloud Run does not allocate CPU outside of request processing. For a class of workloads that expect to do background processing, this can be problematic. So […]
GCP – Chefkoch whips up handwritten recipes in the cloud with text detector
Editor’s note: When German cooking platform Chefkoch was looking to bring treasured hand-me-down recipes into the 21st century it found a scaleable, well-supported solution with Google’s data cloud. Here’s how it was cooked up. Whether it’s salad dressing or chicken soup, most households have a favorite dish passed down across the generations. These recipes are […]
GCP – Why representation matters: 6 tips on how to build DEI into your business
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are more than buzzwords, they are critical components of workplace culture that have real, tangible impacts on your entire organization. Well-executed and robust DEI initiatives ensure that every single employee feels welcomed and valued when they are at work. And that’s not all—done right, DEI will create a thriving environment […]
GCP – Provisioning Cloud Spanner using Terraform
Overview Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database built for scale with strong consistency and up to 99.999% availability. Key features include the following: ACID transactions, SQL queries (ANSI 2011 with extensions) and global scale. Automatic sharding – optimizes performance by automatically sharding the data based on request load and size of the data. […]