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AWS – Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 X1 and X1e instances are available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) and Asia Pacific (Osaka) regions. X1 and X1e instances are memory-optimized instances designed for running large-scale and in-memory applications in the AWS Cloud. X1 instances offer up to 1,952 GiB of memory while X1e instances offer up to 3,904 […]
AWS – Introducing update to Multi-Region Application Architecture
The AWS Solutions team recently updated Multi-Region Application Architecture, a reference architecture that models a serverless active/passive workload with asynchronous replication of application data and failover from a primary to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – The democratization of data and insights: making real-time analytics ubiquitous
In our first blog post in this series, we talked broadly about the democratization of data and insights. Our second blog took a deeper look at insights derived specifically from machine learning, and how Google Cloud has worked to push those capabilities to more users across the data landscape. In our third and final blog […]
GCP – How we’re helping to reshape the software supply chain ecosystem securely
As we start the new year, we see ongoing revelations about an attack involving SolarWinds and others, that in turn led to the compromise of numerous other organizations. Software supply chain attacks like this pose a serious threat to governments, companies, non-profits, and individuals alike. At Google, we work around the clock to protect our […]
GCP – Cloud Profiler provides app performance insights, without the overhead
Do you have an application that’s a little… sluggish? Cloud Profiler, Google Cloud’s continuous application profiling tool, can quickly find poor performing code that slows your app performance and drives up your compute bill. In fact, by helping you find the source of memory leaks and other errors, Profiler has helped some of Google Cloud’s […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito Identity Pools enables using user attributes from identity providers for access control to simplify permissions management in AWS
Amazon Cognito Identity Pools now enables you to use attributes from social and corporate identity providers to make access control decisions and simplify permissions management to AWS resources. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amplify DataStore launches support for sorting and selectively syncing app data
With the recent Amplify Library release, Amplify DataStore gains the ability to selectively sync a subset of your app data and to sort your app data. DataStore provides frontend web and mobile developers a persistent on-device storage repository for you to write, read, and observe changes to data even if you are online or offline, […]
AWS – New digital course: Configuring and Deploying VPCs with Multiple Subnets
We’re excited to announce a free new digital course: Configuring and Deploying VPCs with Multiple Subnets. The course covers how to create a secure AWS network environment with Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) service. This intermediate, one-hour course includes reading modules, video demonstrations, a quiz, and an optional self-paced lab. The course is designed […]
AWS – New digital course and lab: AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Primer
Learn how to define and provision cloud infrastructure using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) with our new digital course AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Primer. This intermediate course is designed for developers that are familiar with AWS services, including AWS CloudFormation. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Public Datasets available from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, IntelinAir, and others
Eighteen new or updated datasets from the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, IntelinAir, and others are available on the Registry of Open Data in the following categories. Read More for the details.