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AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) v2, in addition to v1, for all IMDS calls to EMR clusters. Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance. IMDSv1 is fully secure and AWS will continue to support it. But IMDSv2 adds new […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – AMI Factory
AMI Factory is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. AMI Factory helps customers integrate and build any type of AMIs with custom configurations, setting security standards for operating system (OS)-level benchmarks and vulnerability scans based on customer requirements within a few hours. Customers that […]
GCP – Auto Trader: Charting the road from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Auto Trader, UK’s largest online automotive marketplace. Auto Trader aims to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, providing a platform for consumers to connect with retailers and manufacturers. Here’s how Auto Trader used Google’s Cloud SQL on their database migration journey from on-premises into […]
GCP – Take a tour of best practices for Cloud Bigtable performance and cost optimization
To serve your various application workloads, Google Cloud offers a selection of managed database options: Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner for relational use cases, Firestore and Firebase for document data, Memorystore for in-memory data management, and Cloud Bigtable, a wide-column, NoSQL key-value database. Bigtable was designed by Google to store, analyze, and manage petabytes of […]
GCP – How Google Cloud can help the Public Sector embrace zero trust
The past several months have been marked by a series of major cyber attacks targeting the identity and email systems of tens of thousands of organizations. In light of these events, Google Cloud asked, “How can we help governments reduce their risk from cyber attacks?” The answer? Use a zero trust approach for security. We […]
GCP – How Cloud Technology Can Help Support Economic Recovery
Putting COVID-19 relief funds to work Americans are growing more and more hopeful that the end of the pandemic is in sight. The new COVID-19 relief dollars flowing into state and local budgets represent a tremendous opportunity to impact communities and build a foundation for growth. And as a result, agency leaders need to swiftly […]
GCP – Albertsons and Google are making grocery shopping easier with cloud technology
The past year shook all of us out of our routines as we adapted to the pandemic. Simple things like grocery shopping took on new importance and presented new challenges. Ordering groceries online became commonplace almost overnight. Making that easier was one of the goals we tackled alongside Albertsons Companies when we started working together […]
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Amazon GameLift Queue notifications
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Queue notifications for Amazon GameLift. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Wargaming, Ubisoft, and more, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for multiplayer games. With this new update, you as a game developer can now receive […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Event Grid now provides support for delivery headers and additional advanced filters among other updates
Azure Event Grid now supports additional advanced filters, setting customer headers on requests delivering events, configuring TTL on messages delivered to Azure Storage Queues, and setting system-assigned managed identities on regional System Topics. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Changes coming to Azure Pipelines free grants
With this update, we are including temporary changes that will impact the process to acquire Azure Pipelines free grants. New users will have to send an email and provide additional information to get free CI/CD. Read More for the details.
