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Azure – Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports blob versions management
You can now use Azure Blob storage lifecycle management to automatically transition old blob versions to a cooler storage tier (hot to cool, hot to archive, or cool to archive) or delete old blob versions to optimize for cost. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organization’s security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes. Read More for the details.
GCP – How rapid integrated clinical data helps prioritize care for a vulnerable population
Editor’s note: When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in the U.S. earlier this year, healthcare organizations had to quickly change or speed up their plans to serve patients. Commonwealth Care Alliance (CCA) used data analytics from Google Cloud to connect clinicians and care managers with high-risk members. Valmeek Kudesia, vice president of clinical informatics and advanced […]
GCP – Scale in at your own pace with Compute Engine autoscaler controls
In a Compute Engine environment, managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling that lets you automatically change an instance group’s capacity based on current load, so you can rightsize your environment—and your costs. Autoscaling adds more virtual machines (VMs) to a MIG when there is more load (scaling out), and deletes VMs when the need for […]
GCP – APIs 101: Everything You Need to Know About API Design
Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are how software talks to other software. They abstract the complexity of underlying systems so the systems can connect in novel ways even if they were never intended to interoperate. Consequently, APIs are key ingredients in both most modern digital experiences and the execution of many of today’s most exciting […]
GCP – Unifiedpost and Google collaborate on Document AI to automate procurement data capture
Belgian fintech company, Unifiedpost Group has deployedProcurement DocAI to process nearly 350 million invoices and other procure-to-pay docs per year, in 15 countries across Europe. Procurement DocAI, which was announced at Google Cloud Next OnAir, automates the capture of invoices, receipts and other procurement data at scale. It takes unstructured documents across a variety of […]
AWS – AWS Batch now supports Configurable Job Retries
AWS Batch now allows users to configure retry strategies based on defined exit codes. Customers can now determine whether their AWS Batch jobs retry based on specified events such as infrastructure failure or application failure. This allows customers to tightly control the actions taken on job failure – resulting in lower costs and faster throughput […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports modifying column compression encodings to optimize storage utilization and query performance
Amazon Redshift now allows users to modify the compression encoding of existing columns with a single statement. This new capability makes it easier to maintain the optimal compression encodings in Amazon Redshift to achieve high performance and reduce the storage utilization. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink. With this feature you can manage and invoke Lambda functions from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your traffic to the public internet. PrivateLink provides private connectivity between your VPCs and AWS services, like Lambda, on the private AWS network. Read More for the details.
AWS – Kinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processing
You can now process multiple Amazon Kinesis data streams with a single Kinesis Client Library (KCL) based consumer application. Previously, each KCL based application processes a single Kinesis data stream. With this new capability, you can update the list of streams at runtime for multi-stream processing in a scalable KCL application without redeploying the application. […]