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AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield
Amazon CloudFront announces Origin Shield, a centralized caching layer that helps increase your cache hit ratio to reduce the load on your origin. Origin Shield also decreases your origin operating costs by collapsing requests across regions so as few as one request goes to your origin per object. You can also use Lambda@Edge with Origin […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments
You can now filter automation executions by resource groups in Systems Manager Automation. This allows you to group and view the automation executions specific to your applications or environments. Read More for the details.
GCP – New solutions to modernize your workforce
Transitioning employees to cloud-based tools—or transforming them into cloud workers—is a growing priority for many businesses. In fact, 72% of ITDMs agree that giving workers access to business apps anytime, any place, from any device is business-critical.1 Even in 2018, 77% of enterprises had at least one application or a portion of computing infrastructure in […]
AWS – Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections
Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now support multiple simultaneous connections over the session. This improvement reduces the rendering latency and improves load times for applications that load data using multiple concurrent connections, when delivering such applications over a port forwarding session. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cognitive Services Translator — Canadian French language text translation now available
Use Translator to add Canadian French translation to your apps, products, and workflows. Read More for the details.
GCP – Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data discovery
One of the more critical, but sometimes forgotten, questions related to data security is how do you find the data you need to secure. To security newcomers, this may sound contradictory; surely you have that valuable data firmly in your hands? In reality, many types of sensitive, personal and even regulated data get “misplaced” at […]
GCP – Deploying Anaplan at enterprise scale on Google Cloud
Adapting to rapidly-changing market conditions in real-time—while still building for the future—is top of mind for virtually every business leader. We recently announced a strategic partnership with Anaplan to deliver its enterprise planning platform on Google Cloud, and to jointly deliver cloud-based, intelligent planning solutions to our global customers. Today, many organizations use Anaplan to […]
GCP – AppSheet and Apps Script empower Google Workspace users to build solutions they need
We recently announced Google Workspace, which seamlessly brings together messaging, meetings, docs, and tasks to help our customers create, communicate, and collaborate even more effectively. This includes the ability to extend and customize productivity in ways beyond Google Workspace, through AppSheet, Google Cloud’s no-code development platform, and Apps Script, Google Workspace’s integrated low-code development platform. […]
GCP – Graceful shutdowns on Cloud Run: Deep dive
Cloud Run now sends a SIGTERM signal to your container instance before the container instance terminates, due to an event like scale down or deleted revision. By handling this signal, you can now gracefully terminate your applications and do some cleanup tasks –as opposed to an abrupt shutdown of the container. In this blog, we […]
AWS – You now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra drivers
You now can manage access to Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, by using temporary security credentials for the Python, Go, and Node.js Cassandra drivers. Read More for the details.