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GCP – A developer’s guide to Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE
When people think about whether or not to deploy on a container management platform like Kubernetes, the decision often comes down to its operational benefits: better resource efficiency, higher scalability, advanced resiliency, security, etc. But Kubernetes is also beneficial to the software development side of the house. Whether it’s improved portability of your code, or […]
GCP – Four ways to generate value from your APIs
It’s been 20 years since Jerry Maguire hit movie theaters in 1996, and yet one line from the movie still resonates like no other. The constant banter between the agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and budding professional football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is fun, if not bombastic, with one central theme that Tidwell […]
GCP – The 10 most popular sessions from Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir
Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir looked a little different this year. Instead of a three-day conference, we launched a nine-week digital event series that brought together our global cloud community to discuss and collaborate on the most significant cloud technology challenges facing companies today. We may have gone virtual, but some things stayed the same—all […]
AWS – AWS Partners: Learn how to engage customers in ML and AI opportunities!
AWS Training and Certification has launched a major update to the classroom course AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Machine Learning on AWS (Business). This four-hour, intermediate-level course is designed for account owners and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner organizations. Read More for the details.
GCP – Your questions about Local Context answered
Editor’s note:We recently hosted a webinar to provide an overview of Local Context, a new turnkey solution that adds Google’s rich, local information to your desktop or mobile web app. We received a variety of questions from the audience and ran out of time before we could answer them all. We sat down with Product […]
GCP – Helping media companies create consumer streaming formats with Transcoder API
Media and entertainment companies across the world are in the midst of a transformational shift to direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming experiences. With audiences sheltering in place in 2020, this shift has been accelerated as audiences have adopted new streaming services more readily in 2020 than ever before. With more content being streamed in higher resolutions and […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches in Thailand
Amazon CloudFront announces its first two edge locations in Thailand. These new edge locations in Bangkok will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s Asia Pacific geographic region. For more information about CloudFront’s global infrastructure, see Amazon CloudFront Infrastructure. Read More for […]
GCP – Google Cloud, Harvard Global Public Health release improved COVID-19 Public Forecasts, share lessons learned
Harvard Global Health Institute and Google Cloud have been working the past three months to improve the COVID-19 Public Forecasts, to give first responders and healthcare organizations the best possible information to prepare for what lies ahead. These forecasts use AI to provide a projection of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and other metrics for U.S. counties […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports Environment Variables
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports the use of environment variables with canaries. This allows you to save time by using a single canary script to create different canaries that have a similar task. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: VPN over ExpressRoute private peering
VPN over ExpressRoute allows customers to encrypt all traffic going over their ExpressRoute circuit. VPN over ExpressRoute, combined with site-to-site and point-to-site VPN provides end-to-end encryption between data centers, branch offices and remote users. Read More for the details.