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GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud
February is Black History Month —a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of the African heritage. Over the next four weeks, we will highlight four Black-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. Our first feature highlights TQIntelligence and its founder, Yared. […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts
Starting today, with Amazon EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts you can store snapshots of your Amazon EBS volumes locally on Amazon S3 on Outposts to meet your data residency and local data processing needs. EBS Local Snapshots on Outposts require your Outpost to be provisioned with S3 on Outposts. You can also continue to back […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS authentication
AWS App Mesh now supports mutual TLS (Transport Layer Security) authentication that offers two-way peer authentication. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes version 1.3.0 with mTLS support
AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes v1.3.0 is now available and includes support for mTLS (mutual Transport Layer Security) authentication on App Mesh. The AWS App Mesh Controller for Kubernetes provides a way to configure and manage AWS App Mesh using Kubernetes directly. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to […]
GCP – Why a leader at Twitter thinks Google Cloud training is a must for IT execs and employees
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Kathleen Vignos, Director of Platform Engineering at Twitter. Kathleen shares how Google Cloud training and certifications help Twitter leaders and employees increase business impact, stay up to date with the latest technologies, and grow their careers. One of Twitter’s core values is having a growth mindset, and as a […]
AWS – AWS Amplify Hosting adds monitoring capabilities with Amazon CloudWatch integration
AWS Amplify Hosting now allows users to monitor metrics for Amplify hosted applications in near real-time. Amplify provides a dashboard with metrics for Incoming requests, Bytes downloaded, Bytes uploaded, 4XX/5XX errors, and latency. You can create CloudWatch alarms in the Amplify console that send notifications when specific criteria are met. An alarm watches a single […]
AWS – AWS Copilot launches v1.2 providing more deployment capabilities
Today, AWS Copilot launched version 1.2 which now provides more deployment capabilities for applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zone in Osaka, Japan
Today, we are announcing the availability of a new AWS Wavelength Zone on KDDI’s 5G network in Osaka. Wavelength Zones are now available in 2 locations in Japan, including the previously announced Wavelength Zone in Tokyo. Read More for the details.
GCP – Can machine learning make you a better athlete?
Ah, the Super Bowl. Or, as I prefer to say, the Superb Owl—that oh-so-American Sunday defined by infinite nachos, high-budget commercials, and memes that can last us half a decade. As an uncoordinated math geek, I can’t say I’ve ever had much connection to the “Football” part of the Super Bowl. That said, sports, data […]
GCP – Customers who make data sing and analytics product news to cure your data FOMO
In December, we predicted that a “revolution was coming for data and the cloud in 2021.” Well, January came and gone: our team has been busy delivering new capabilities, content and best practices to help kick your year into high gear. Our work is guided by our customers; we’re always listening to your needs and […]