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GCP – The best of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir: Data Management Week for technical practitioners
It’s Week 6 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, and this week we’re covering all things databases, from running your favorite open source database with Cloud SQL to building new enterprise solutions using Cloud Spanner. We have a lot of great content to share with you this week, so let’s dig in.Whatever database questions you […]
GCP – Simplifying global game launches with Google Cloud Game Servers, now GA
As more and more people across the world turn to multiplayer games, developers must scale their game to meet increased player demand and provide a great gameplay experience, while managing complex underlying global infrastructure. To solve this problem, many game companies build and manage their own costly proprietary solutions, or turn to pre-packaged solutions that […]
AWS – AWS announces Contact Center Intelligence solutions
AWS Contact Center Intelligence (CCI) solutions enable customers using contact center solutions to leverage off-the-shelf functionality powered by machine learning like text-to-speech, translation, enterprise search, chatbots, business intelligence, and language comprehension. AWS CCI solutions allow customers to gain greater efficiencies and deliver increasingly tailored customer experiences within their existing contact center platform—with no machine learning […]
AWS – AWS DataSync simplifies automation with API filters
AWS DataSync now supports filtering for the ListTasks and ListLocations API calls, enabling you to easily retrieve configuration of data transfer tasks, using filters such as the source or destination for the data transfer. With this new capability, you can automate the set up and monitoring of workloads that involve hundreds of DataSync tasks. Read […]
Azure – Azure Blob – Soft Delete for Containers public preview
Soft delete for containers expands upon Azure Blob Storage’s existing capabilities such as soft delete for blobs, account delete locking, and immutable blobs, making our data protection and restore capabilities even better. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Cloud9 releases enhanced VPC support
AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. Cloud9 is excited to offer enhanced VPC support for customers using the Cloud9 IDE. This release adds support for creating Cloud9 environments in a private subnet with no ingress and optionally no egress. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces two new API features to simplify consuming data from Kinesis streams
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams announces two new API features that simplify applications that consume data from Kinesis Data streams. The first feature is an optional filtering field in the ListShards API that enables you to set filtering criteria for the shards that you want to list from a data stream. For example, you can now […]
GCP – Bring your map to life with enhanced natural features
Today we announced an evolution of the map. Using a new satellite color mapping technique, Google Maps now has one of the most comprehensive views of natural features on any major map app–with availability in all 220 countries and territories that it supports. You can use our recently launched cloud-based map styling tools to preview this […]
AWS – AWS RoboMaker WorldForge simplifies creating simulation worlds for robotics
AWS RoboMaker is introducing WorldForge, a capability that streamlines testing and training robots in simulation by making it faster, simpler, and less expensive to create a multitude of virtual 3D worlds. Building virtual worlds is required to test and train robotics applications in simulation, and before RoboMaker WorldForge, the process could require months of time […]
GCP – How McKesson used Google Cloud to rethink their database architecture
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from pharmaceutical and pharmacy technology giant McKesson about how their teams modernized siloed infrastructure to use data better. Here’s how they did it. McKesson Corporation is a global leader in healthcare supply chain management solutions, retail pharmacy, community oncology and specialty care, and healthcare information solutions. Every day, McKesson delivers […]