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AWS – Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service Now Supports Additional Fields for Improved Automation and Operability
We’ve introduced the following 5 fields to the instance metadata service: region, placement group name, partition number, host ID, and availability zone-ID. You can use these fields after launch or while your instance is running to understand your instance location. This is useful for populating the region for your AWS environment. Additionally, these fields help […]
GCP – Ramping up cloud migration discovery and assessment with StratoZone
Businesses around the world have been impacted by the global pandemic, making the need to migrate to the cloud more urgent than ever. On their own, many organizations have difficulty completing cloud migrations on time and on budget. Among their challenges: unknown capacity needs and sizing; unknown performance thresholds; navigating expensive hardware refresh cycles or […]
GCP – Dataflow Under the Hood: comparing Dataflow with other tools
Editor’s note: This is the third blog in a three-part series examining the internal Google history that led to Dataflow, how Dataflow works as a Google Cloud service, and here, how it compares and contrasts with other products in the marketplace. To place Google Cloud’s stream and batch processing tool Dataflow in the larger ecosystem, […]
GCP – Shining a light on Anthos at Next OnAir application modernization week
Welcome to Week 7 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir! This week’s app modernization track goes live Tuesday, August 25 at 9:00am PT, and is all about containers, serverless, app development—and my personal favorite, Anthos. App modernization is such a relevant and timely topic. Now more than ever, companies across the globe are looking at […]
GCP – 6 ways that G Suite helps IT admins safely use BYOD
Many organizations, including Google, have moved quickly to embrace working from home. With this widespread remote work, it’s never been more important for IT admins to be certain that every device in their organization is secure, even when that device isn’t company-owned. We pioneered zero-trust security through our BeyondCorp strategy and leverage it to offer […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration
ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from stackArmor, an AWS Security Competency Partner. ThreatAlert® ATO Acceleration provides FedRAMP, FISMA, ITAR, HIPAA, DFARS & CMMC compliance acceleration on AWS & AWS GovCloud. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that includes rapid solution enablement […]
Azure – Public Preview: Cognitive Services Form Recognizer v2.1
Form Recognizer v2.1-preview.1 has been released. It includes support for new languages, checkbox/selection marks, and the submit multiple form types to a single model Id. Read More for the details.
Azure – Release of new Azure CDN (Microsoft Standard) capability
The Azure CDN service, a distributed network of servers that can efficiently deliver web content to users, now supports multiple origins. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers
AWS Firewall Manager now supports security groups on Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers, allowing you to centrally configure and audit security groups associated with these resource types, across multiple accounts in your organization. Firewall Manager today supports security groups associated with EC2 instances and Elastic Network Interfaces (ENIs). With this launch, you can […]
GCP – Dataflow Under the Hood: understanding Dataflow techniques
Editor’s note: This is the second blog in a three-part series examining the internal Google history that led to Dataflow, how Dataflow works as a Google Cloud service, and how it compares and contrasts with other products in the marketplace. Check out part 1: Dataflow Under the Hood: the origin story. In the first post […]