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GCP – New training helps you get started with GKE—for free!
Kubernetes adoption continues to grow unabated across all industries. This fall, 91% of IT and security professionals reported that their businesses are using Kubernetes for container orchestration. Now, technical professionals are faced with figuring out how to make the most of Kubernetes. For many businesses, a cloud provider’s managed Kubernetes service offers a more convenient […]
GCP – From multiple clouds to multicloud: Key factors that influence success
As your organization evolves, the cloud can be a powerful tool to drive growth, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. In fact, the cloud is so powerful that most organizations find themselves running on multiple clouds—a full 92% of enterprises surveyed by Flexera1 reported adopting a deliberate multicloud strategy in some way, shape, or form: on […]
GCP – Expanding partner solutions at the network edge
High-speed connectivity to the network edge is growing. As it does, organizations with presences at the edge have opportunities to apply digital technologies and cloud capabilities that can streamline business processes, create exciting new experiences for consumers, uncover insights from data at the edge, and more. Late last year, we announced a new initiative to […]
GCP – New Tau VMs deliver leading price-performance for scale-out workloads
Scale-out workloads demand the best combination of performance and price to bring down the cost of delivering applications, all while providing an excellent user experience. We are excited to announce a new virtual machine (VM) family, Tau VMs, coming to Google Cloud. Tau VMs extend Compute Engine’s VM offerings with a new option optimized for […]
GCP – Build a platform with KRM: Part 2 – How the Kubernetes resource model works
This is part 2 in a multi-part series on building developer platforms with the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM). In Part 1, we learned about some characteristics of a good developer platform, from friendly abstractions to extensibility and security. This post will introduce the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM), and will discuss how Kubernetes’ declarative, always-reconciling design […]
AWS – AWS announces a new shell for F1 instances with increased FPGA resources and data transfer speeds
AWS EC2 F1 instances have been used by customers to accelerate a growing set of applications from genomic processing, data analytics, security, image/video analytics, machine learning and more. Developers have taken advantage of the FPGA developer kit and current standard F1.X.1.4 shells to easily build and deploy their applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 24 regions, with the addition of both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS GovCloud (US) Regions are isolated AWS Regions designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have United States federal, state, or local government compliance requirements. Read More for the […]
AWS – KMS Multi-Region Keys
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) is introducing multi-Region keys, a new capability that lets you replicate keys from one AWS Region into another. With multi-Region keys, you can more easily move encrypted data between Regions without having to decrypt and re-encrypt with different keys in each Region. Multi-Region keys are supported for client-side encryption […]
AWS – AWS Amplify announces support for IAM permissions boundaries on Amplify-generated IAM roles
AWS Amplify CLI now supports IAM permission boundaries to limit Amplify-generated IAM roles. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud that include IAM roles controlling access to AWS resources. With IAM permissions boundaries, Amplify-generated IAM roles can perform only the actions that are […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize now unlocks information in unstructured text for recommendations
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now enables customers to unlock the information trapped in their product descriptions, reviews, movie synopses or other unstructured text to generate highly relevant recommendations for users. Product descriptions contain important information and insights about products. The investments made to create these narratives enable the creation of more relevant […]