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GCP – Analyze your logs quickly with suggested queries beta in Cloud Logging
Cloud Logging is a popular tool to help developers, operators, and other users identify and find the root cause of issues in their infrastructure. With features like the Logs Explorer, you can quickly and efficiently retrieve, view, and analyze logs. To help you get the most out of your logs, we’re excited to introduce suggested […]
GCP – Streamlining Cloud Run development with Cloud Code
Editor’s note: At Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, we announced several new features and services to help you accelerate your application delivery and development processes, as well as the Cloud Application Modernization Platform, or CAMP. Over the next couple of months, we’re diving deep into those announcements, covering everything from developer productivity, security and compliance, […]
GCP – The future of enterprise: Your business, in the browser
No one could have predicted a year like 2020, and businesses have needed to respond to changing conditions and new business requirements. I’ve been inspired by how some organizations—my husband’s employer, the hospitals my mom and brother work at, our local schools, as just a few examples—have been able to adapt quickly to changing times. […]
GCP – New Google Cloud whitepaper: Getting the most out of your Cloud Key Management Service
The cliché that “encryption is easy, but key management is hard,” remains true: encryption key management is still a challenge for many large organizations. Add in cloud migration of many sensitive workloads, which necessitates encryption, and the challenges have become more acute. Cloud, however, also holds the potential for making encryption key management more performant, […]
GCP – Compute Engine explained: Best practices for OS updates at scale
Keeping all your VMs up-to-date with the latest patches is job #1 for any system administrator, but if you have a large deployment, you need to balance the speed of updates with potential reliability risks. Google Cloud’s OS patch management service is a powerful tool to help you install updates at scale across the whole […]
GCP – Announcing ‘round-the-clock clean energy for cloud
Tackling climate change requires rapidly transitioning the entire global economy to clean energy and Google Cloud will be at the forefront of this transition. Google has a long track record on clean energy: in 2007, Google became the first major company to become carbon neutral. And in 2017, Google became the first company of our […]
Azure – Azure Pipelines announces the general availability of scale-set agents
In the last two months, we improved the reliability in performing various scale-set operations. We have updated the guidance on how to improve the performance of provisioning new virtual machines. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 bucket owner condition helps to validate correct bucket ownership
Amazon S3 now provides bucket owner condition, allowing you to validate the AWS Account ID of the owner of an S3 bucket. Bucket owner condition helps you to easily verify that the S3 buckets that you interact with are owned by expected AWS Accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports More Time Zones
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports more time zones including South Africa Standard Time, Sri Lanka Standard Time, and UTC+13. This feature enables our customers to match their DB instance time zone to their chosen time zone. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Application Insight in UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2
UK West, Germany West Central, Switzerland West and Australia Central 2 are now Public Preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight. Read More for the details.