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GCP – Dashboards on Cloud Monitoring made easier with samples
Setting up Cloud Monitoring dashboards for your team can be time consuming because every team’s needs are different. Picking the right metrics, using the right visualizations to represent these metrics, deciding what metrics can go on the same chart, and determining the right pre-processing steps for metrics requires background and experience that may not yet […]
GCP – Kinguin helps shoppers find products faster with Recommendations AI
Over 2.14 billion people worldwide are expected to buy online this year, according to Statista. Online retail sales will account for 22% of all purchases by 2023. But in a competitive retail landscape, positive interactions can mean the difference between a sale and an abandoned shopping cart. One of the leading global marketplaces – Kinguin.net […]
GCP – Let Google Cloud’s predictive services autoscale your infrastructure
At Google Cloud, we believe you get most benefits from the cloud when you scale infrastructure based on changing demand. Compute Engine allows you to configure autoscaling to save costs during periods of low demand, and add capacity to support peak loads. When you use a managed instance group (MIG), you can have an autoscaler […]
GCP – What’s new with BigQuery ML: Unsupervised anomaly detection for time series and non-time series data
When it comes to anomaly detection, one of the key challenges that many organizations face is that it can be difficult to know how to define what an anomaly is. How do you define and anticipate unusual network intrusions, manufacturing defects, or insurance fraud? If you have labeled data with known anomalies, then you can […]
AWS – Amazon EBS now supports gp3, st1, and sc1 volume types in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
AWS now supports three additional Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones: General Purpose SSD (gp3), Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. With this expansion, you can now use gp3, st1, and sc1 volume types in addition to your existing gp2 and io1 volumes […]
GCP – Implementing Application-Consistent Data Protection for Compute Engine Workloads
Compute Engine provides reliable data protection infrastructure for your most demanding workloads. This infrastructure is the foundation for high-scale, mission critical services at Google and across industries including energy, retail, media, and finance. Today we are announcing the availability of application consistent Persistent Disk snapshot hooks for Linux, available for snapshots and machine images. New […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere version 21.07 expected on July 21, 2021
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The 21.07 OS evaluation period provides 21 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time […]
AWS – AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports JSON Schema
AWS Glue Schema Registry now supports defining schemas in JSON Schema format in addition to Apache Avro, allowing customers who choose JSON Schema as the format for their streaming data to centrally control the evolution of data streams and avoid having to manage their own registries. Through Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers, Glue Schema Registry integrates with […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS Europe (London) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Europe (London) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances […]