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AWS – Review last accessed information to identify unused EC2, IAM, and Lambda permissions and tighten access for your IAM roles
IAM helps customers with capabilities to analyze access and achieve least privilege. When you are working on new permissions for your teams, you can use IAM Access Analyzer policy generation to create a policy based on your access activity and set fine-grained permissions. To analyze and refine existing permissions, you can use last accessed information […]
GCP – Bigtable vs. BigQuery: What’s the difference?
Many people wonder if they should use BigQuery or Bigtable. While these two services have a number of similarities, including “Big” in their names, they support very different use cases in your big data ecosystem. At a high level,Bigtable is a NoSQL wide-column database. It’s optimized for low latency, large numbers of reads and writes, […]
AWS – Introducing Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework v2.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Machine to Cloud Connectivity Framework, a solution that provides secure factory equipment connectivity to the AWS Cloud. This solution is a framework to send equipment telemetry data to your AWS account, allowing you to leverage AWS Services to conduct analysis on your equipment data instead of managing underlying infrastructure […]
Azure – Microsoft announces plans to establish first datacenter region in Malaysia
The new datacenter region is part of the “Bersama Malaysia” initiative to support inclusive economic growth in Malaysia. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – IoT Resource Monitoring Framework
IoT Resource Monitoring Framework is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Trek10, an AWS IoT Competency Partner. IoT Resource Monitoring Framework gives companies clear and constant visibility into their IoT device and backend operations from a single pane. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now provides configurable naming during Landing Zone setup
Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the ability to customize your landing zone naming. You can retain the names that AWS Control Tower recommends for the organizational units (OUs) and core accounts, or you can modify these names during the initial landing zone set up process. Read More […]
Azure – Announcing general availability of new M-series Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory VMs for memory-optimized workloads
Azure Msv2/Mdsv2 Medium Memory Series offering up to 192vCPU and 4TB memory configurations and running on Cascade Lake processor are now generally available. Read More for the details.
GCP – Colossus under the hood: a peek into Google’s scalable storage system
You trust Google Cloud with your critical data, but did you know that Google also relies on the same underlying storage infrastructure for its other businesses as well? That’s right, the same storage system that powers Google Cloud also underpins Google’s most popular products, supporting globally available services like YouTube, Drive, and Gmail. That foundational […]
GCP – How ShareChat built scalable data-driven social media with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Indian social media platform ShareChat. Here’s the story of how they improved performance, app development, and analytics for serving regional content to millions of users using Google Cloud. How do you create a social network when your country has 22 major official languages and countless active regional dialects? […]
GCP – The 5 benefits of Cloud SQL [infographic]
Tired of spending too much time on database maintenance? You’re not alone. Lots of businesses are turning to fully managed database services to help build and scale infrastructure quickly, freeing up time and resources to spend on innovation instead. At Google Cloud, our managed database services include Cloud SQL, which makes it easy to move […]