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AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon API Gateway service integration
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon API Gateway REST and HTTP APIs, making it faster and easier to build application workflows including microservices created by API Gateway. You can use the API Gateway integration to create a workflow that orchestrates HTTP and REST APIs acting as the ‘front door’ for business logic running […]
GCP – How BigQuery helped Theta Labs and NASA bring science and hope to streaming
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Theta Labs, a leading decentralized video streaming platform that is powered by users and decentralized on a new blockchain. With their peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing distributed ledger technology, Theta Labs has been able to revolutionize the livestream experience. By adopting Google Cloud, Theta Labs has been able to scalably meet […]
AWS – Announcing new features for AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale to help you make better, data-driven decisions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Kubernetes Service updates for November 2020
AKS updates in general availability include ephemeral OS disk support, AKS containerd support, maxSurge support, Kubernetes 1.19 support, and more. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA databases now supports Incremental backups – Public preview
Azure Backup for SAP HANA now supports HANA incremental backups which allows you to have faster and more cost-effective backups. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor enables multi-account reporting of best practice recommendations with AWS Organizations
Starting today, you can use the console to aggregate AWS Trusted Advisor recommendations across all accounts in your organization with AWS Organizations. The new Organizational View feature in Trusted Advisor allows you to generate reports with detailed check results across multiple accounts in your AWS organization. In addition, you can view a high level summary […]
GCP – Chromebooks give Germany’s Viessmann new freedom to secure remote work
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Alexander Pöllmann, Head of Workplace Technology at Viessmann, a Germany-based manufacturing company providing climate solutions. Following its adoption of Google Workspace and Chrome Browser in 2017, Viessmann added Chromebooks last year, aiming to roll out 3,000 Chrome devices by 2022. By 2019, our company was already well on the […]
GCP – Data governance in Google Cloud–new ways to securely access and discover data
BigQuery column-level security now GA As organizations bring more and more-sensitive data analytics workloads to the cloud, BigQuery is entrusted to provide fine-grained security and governance controls that help them satisfy principles of least-privileged access. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery column-level security. Introduced earlier this year, column-level security […]
GCP – A developer’s guide to Google Kubernetes Engine, or GKE
When people think about whether or not to deploy on a container management platform like Kubernetes, the decision often comes down to its operational benefits: better resource efficiency, higher scalability, advanced resiliency, security, etc. But Kubernetes is also beneficial to the software development side of the house. Whether it’s improved portability of your code, or […]
GCP – Four ways to generate value from your APIs
It’s been 20 years since Jerry Maguire hit movie theaters in 1996, and yet one line from the movie still resonates like no other. The constant banter between the agent, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) and budding professional football player Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is fun, if not bombastic, with one central theme that Tidwell […]