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AWS – HTTP compression support now available in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports gzip compression for HTTP payloads. With HTTP compression, you can reduce the size of your documents by to up to 80%, lowering bandwidth utilization and latency, leading to improved transfer speeds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup locally redundant storage (LRS) and geo-redundant storage (GRS) data stored meter ID changes
Effective September 1, 2020, the meter IDs of Azure Backup—LRS and GRS data stored will change in the ZA West and ZA North regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Migrate to the new version of the Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 APIs
Read about the process for migrating onto the new generally available API version for Time Series Insights Gen2. Read More for the details.
GCP – Helping teach a community cloud skills with Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer certification
“Unconventional” doesn’t begin to describe Joy Payton’s career path in technology. Before becoming the Data Education Supervisor at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and an adjunct faculty member at Yeshiva University, Joy spent 10 years working as a full-time volunteer in prisons, schools, and homeless shelters across Spain, Bolivia, and El Salvador. While Joy was […]
GCP – Private Service Connect streamlines secure connectivity to services at scale
As the use of cloud services increases and matures, organizations want to streamline the process of securely connecting to services at scale. But for different domains to communicate, cloud and network architects have traditionally spent a lot of time exchanging infrastructure-level information like IP addresses and coordinating subnets with technologies such as VPC peering. They […]
GCP – Google Cloud Armor: Introducing 3 key features to protect your websites and applications
With the seemingly never-ending list of threats, keeping your websites and applications secure is a constant challenge. At Google, we strive to help you operate your mission critical workloads securely and efficiently, while reducing toil along the way. Over the first half of this year we’ve made several critical features and capabilities generally available for […]
GCP – Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir—delivering infrastructure for all your apps
The applications you run on Google Cloud rely on extensive amounts of infrastructure, deployed around the world, in dozens of data centers, across hundreds of points of presence, and connected by a system of high-capacity fiber optic cables that encircle the globe. Inside our data centers, you’ll find the latest compute, storage and network systems […]
GCP – RAMP up your cloud adoption with new assessment and migration program
Today’s enterprises are under increased pressure to migrate to the cloud. Maybe an enterprise has an upcoming data center contract or hardware refresh cycle that they want to avoid. Perhaps developers are hitting performance thresholds because they don’t have enough capacity, or because procuring hardware takes too long. Or a migration might be triggered by […]
GCP – Announcing the Grace Hopper subsea cable, linking the U.S., U.K. and Spain
Today, 98% of international internet traffic is ferried around the world by subsea cables. A vast underwater network of cables crisscrossing the ocean makes it possible to share, search, send, and receive information around the world at the speed of light. In today’s day and age, as the ways that we work, play and connect […]
Azure – Azure Active Directory Registration Service is ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
Azure Active Directory Registration Service: Ending support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 and preparing for TLS 1.2 in US Gov and commercial clouds Read More for the details.