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Azure – General Availability: Azure Cosmos DB Vercel integration
We’re excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB integration with Vercel Generally Available. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Facturation.net migrated Azure VMs to Google Cloud in one weekend
Facturation.net is a leading Canadian provider of a cloud-based invoicing and billing software. With many customers in Canada, its mission is to help doctors and their administrative staff with their medical billing and provide customized software and services. “As our business grew, we realized that our existing Azure infrastructure was no longer meeting our needs. […]
GCP – How partners can augment solution development with gen AI
Meeting client timelines and quality standards is a long-standing challenge for Google Cloud Partners, especially when navigating large legacy codebases, unfamiliar languages, and multiple tools. Partner projects frequently involve code integration across multiple languages — including legacy ones — posing challenges for manual analysis and limiting the effectiveness of automation tools. Further, ensuring reliable error […]
GCP – More flexibility for your Dataflow jobs with new controls for latency versus cost
Dataflow Streaming Engine users know that there’s no such thing as an “average” streaming use case. Some customers have strict latency requirements that must be met even during traffic spikes. Others are more concerned with cost and want to run their streaming pipelines as efficiently as possible. The question is: Do you prefer lower peak […]
GCP – Holes in Your Bitbucket: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline Is Leaking Secrets
Written by: Mark Swindle While investigating recent exposures of Amazon Web Services (AWS) secrets, Mandiant identified a scenario in which client-specific secrets have been leaked from Atlassian’s code repository tool, Bitbucket, and leveraged by threat actors to gain unauthorized access to AWS. This blog post illustrates how Bitbucket Secured Variables can be leaked in […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail supports easy switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only instance bundles
Amazon Lightsail now supports switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only bundles by removing or adding dynamic public IPv4 addresses on instances. Previously, you would have to select an IPv6-only bundle and start a new instance from scratch to move from dual-stack to IPv6-only bundles. With this feature, you can switch between dual-stack and IPv6-only plans on […]
GCP – Google Data Cloud innovations for continuous real-time intelligence
Organizations are increasingly looking to drive outcomes by harnessing real-time analytics. In the current AI era, it is crucial to deliver up-to-date information to AI systems that help make informed decisions, identify trends and anomalies, and implement proactive and effective interventions. To fully realize the benefits of real-time intelligence for visibility, predictions, and activation, you need […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service support for S3 Parquet as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports AWS S3 parquet files as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now migrate data in parquet format from S3 to any supported AWS DMS target provided the S3 Parquet data was generated by DMS. AWS DMS supports both full load and Change Data Capture (CDC) migration […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports GetClusterCredentialswithIAM for Redshift Data Sources
Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Redshift data source using an IAM role through GetClusterCredentialswithIAM. This is an enhancement to the previously launched feature for Redshift RunasRole which now makes the Database user/Database Group parameters optional thereby implicitly tying the temporary user identity to the IAM credentials. This feature now enables customers to use LakeFormation-Managed […]
GCP – Releasing Artifact Registry assets across Organizations and Projects with serverless
Have you ever wondered if there is a more automated way to copy Artifact Registry or Container Registry Images across different projects and Organizations? In this article we will go over an opinionated process of doing so using serverless components in Google Cloud and its deployment with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This article assumes knowledge […]