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Azure – Azure DevOps Artifacts storage exploration
More granular breakdowns and analyses into artifact storage. Read More for the details.
AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights adds support for CloudFormation Templates
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights now supports enabling monitoring for resources provisioned via CloudFormation templates. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers easily setup monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. Now this same easy setup can be done via simple JSON or YAML commands added to your CloudFormation template that automatically add CloudWatch […]
AWS – Application and Classic Load Balancers are adding defense in depth with the introduction of Desync Mitigation Mode
Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Classic Load Balancer (CLB) now support HTTP Desync Mitigation Mode, a new feature that protects your application from issues due to HTTP Desync. Modern day web applications are typically built with a chain of proxies that ensure fast and reliable communication between clients and servers. While these proxies follow a […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds cut, copy, and paste to the contact flow designer
Amazon Connect enables customers to easily copy and paste blocks within and between flows. Now, administrators can select, cut, copy, and paste a complete flow or multiple blocks within or across flows. Any configured settings, layout arrangements, and connections are persisted, reducing errors and saving time when duplicating functionality or editing. Read More for […]
GCP – 13 sample architectures to kickstart your Google Cloud journey
Whatever your organization’s performance or cost needs, Google Cloud is an eminently flexible platform that supports many different kinds of application architectures. But where should you start? In my role as a Google Cloud Developer Advocate, I recently ran a Twitter series on the 13 days of GCP that covered some common Google Cloud reference […]
GCP – 9 data management sessions to check out at Next OnAir
At Google Cloud, we build databases that are simple to operate, secure, and designed to handle both what you’re running today and what you’re looking to build next. No matter where you are in your journey—whether you’re moving on-prem servers to the cloud, modernizing existing systems, or spinning up new workloads—this week at Google Cloud […]
GCP – Looking ahead as GKE, the original managed Kubernetes, turns 5
It’s hard to believe that GKE is already celebrating its 5th birthday. Over these last five years it’s been inspiring to see what businesses have accomplished with Google Cloud and GKE—from powering multi-million QPS retail services, to helping a game publisher deploy 1700 times to production in the week of its launch, to accelerating research […]
GCP – Deploy GPU workloads across all your clouds with Anthos and NVIDIA
We are very excited to announce a joint solution with NVIDIA now publicly available to all users in beta that allows customers to run NVIDIA GPU workloads on Anthos across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments. Running GPU workloads between clouds Machine learning is one of the fastest growing application segments in the market today, powering […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine explained: Integrated networking and connectivity
Editor’s note: This the first installment in a new blog series that dives deep into our Google Cloud VMware Engine managed service. Stay tuned for other entries on migration, integration, running stateful database workloads, and enabling remote workers, to name a few. We recently announced the general availability of Google Cloud VMware Engine, a managed […]
GCP – App modernization enabled this retail solution provider to converge physical and digital commerce
As Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said earlier this year, digital transformation in the retail industry is more than just a requirement, it’s a race, and the retailers that transform the fastest will be the most successful in the long term. COVID-19’s impact on the retail industry has only exacerbated this challenge, forcing retailers to […]