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GCP – What’s new in PostgreSQL 16: New features available in Cloud SQL today
In an effort to improve usability and facilitate informed decision-making, Cloud SQL customers can now use PostgreSQL 16, which introduces new features for deeper insights into database operations and enhanced usability. In this blog post we cover some of the highlights of the PostgreSQL 16 version, including: Improvements in observability Performance improvements Vacuum efficiency Replication […]
GCP – How to integrate Gemini and Sheets with BigQuery
I often find myself in Google Sheets. Some would say too often. Since I use Gemini for all kinds of things too, integrating Gemini into my Sheets workflow just makes sense. I can boost my productivity in Sheets with capabilities like summarizing sheets and creating formulas. Gemini is now available in Gmail, Docs, Sheets and […]
GCP – Chugai Pharmaceutical: Accelerating drug discovery through AI, machine learning and data analysis
Chugai Pharmaceutical is one of the leading companies in the pharmaceutical industry driving digital transformation (DX) and has been selected as a ‘DX Brand’ by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry and the Tokyo Stock Exchange for three consecutive years. We were also named the “Digital Transformation Platinum Company 2023-2025” under the DX Stocks […]
GCP – Hamina boosts productivity and achieves cost savings with Google
Editor’s note: In today’s post, Niko Palmu, IT Manager for the town of Hamina, Finland, shares their success story. Hamina’s adoption of ChromeOS, Google Workspace, and Google Cloud resulted in a remarkable 60% cost reduction while boosting productivity for their 800 strong workforce. Hamina, along with many municipalities around the world, is actively navigating a […]
AWS – AWS AppFabric now supports JumpCloud
AWS AppFabric, a no-code service that quickly integrates with software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to enhance an organization’s security posture, now supports JumpCloud. AppFabric provides aggregated and normalized audit logs from popular SaaS applications like Slack, Zoom, Salesforce, Atlassian Jira suite, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. By centralizing SaaS application data, AppFabric helps teams gain greater visibility […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in South America (São Paulo) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector container image scanning is now available for Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions
Amazon Inspector now offers native integration with Amazon CodeCatalyst and GitHub actions for container image scanning, allowing customers to assess their container images for software vulnerabilities within their Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools, pushing security earlier in the software development lifecycle. With this expansion, Inspector now natively integrates with four developer tools including, […]
AWS – Announcing the common control library in AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager has introduced a common control library that simplifies the process of automating risk and compliance assessments against enterprise controls. This new library enables Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) teams to efficiently map their controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection. The new common control library provides pre-defined and pre-mapped AWS data sources, […]
AWS – AWS launches Tax Settings API to programmatically manage tax registration information
Today AWS launches AWS Tax Settings API, a new public API service that enables customers to programmatically view, set, and modify tax registration information and associated business legal name and address. This launch allows you to automate tax registration updates as an enhanced offering to the AWS Tax Settings page. Previously, customers managing tax registration […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports ingesting streaming data from Amazon MSK Serverless
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest streaming data from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Serverless, enabling you to seamlessly index the data from Amazon MSK Serverless clusters in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or Serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use […]