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GCP – How virtual red team technology can find high-risk security issues before attackers do
Cloud security teams use cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) to find misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in their multi-cloud environments. While these solutions can discover thousands of potential security issues in large cloud environments, many fail to answer two fundamental cloud security questions: “Where am I most at risk?” and “What issues should I prioritize?” Security Command […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline introduces pipeline variable check rule for stage level condition
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines introduces pipeline variable check as a new rule that customers can use in their stage level condition to gate a pipeline execution. You can use this rule with any condition that is evaluated before entering the stage, before exiting a stage – when all actions in the stage have completed […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB is now available in the Jakarta, Milan, UAE and Zaragoza AWS regions
You can now use Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE) and Europe (Spain) AWS regions. Timestream for InfluxDB makes it easy for application developers and DevOps teams to run fully managed InfluxDB databases on AWS for real-time time-series applications using open-source APIs. Timestream for InfluxDB offers the […]
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts in Kuwait
AWS Outposts can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kuwait. AWS Outposts is a family of fully managed solutions that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any on-premises or edge location for a truly consistent hybrid experience. Outposts is ideal for workloads that require […]
GCP – BigQuery vector search now GA, setting the stage for a new class of AI-powered analytics
Artificial intelligence (AI) has given organizations brand new ways to represent data so that it can be analyzed and understood at scale. AI models are trained to interpret the semantic meaning of words and other data by encoding them as vector embeddings. These embeddings represent the relative position in the vector space of the data […]
GCP – Google Cloud database news roundup, September 2024 edition
September was a whirlwind of innovation for Google Cloud databases. From groundbreaking announcements to product updates and inspiring customer stories, we’ve got it all. So grab your favorite fall beverage and let’s dive into the latest from Google Cloud databases. Key announcements Oracle Database is now generally available on Google Cloud. Customers can now run […]
GCP – Project management à la SRE: How to juggle the needs of your project and production
You’ve probably felt the frustration that arises when a project fails to meet established deadlines. And perhaps you’ve also encountered scenarios where project staff or computing have been reallocated to higher priority projects. It can be super challenging to get projects done on time with this kind of uncertainty. That’s especially true for Site Reliability […]
GCP – Winners of the 2024 Looker Hackathon (Vertex AI Edition)
The 2024 Looker Hackathon (Vertex AI Edition) was a special one, as we invited our developer and data communities to collaborate, learn, and inspire each other, with a focus on how to use Vertex AI, Google Cloud’s AI development platform, with Looker and Looker Studio. More than 160 participants from 34 countries joined, hacked away […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: How CISOs can work with cloud providers to improve incident response
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today, Google Cloud’s Vinod D’Souza and Chris Cornillie examine the vital role that CISOs play in working with cloud providers to improve their organization’s incident preparedness. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) region
Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in Europe (Spain) can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as payment card analytics, message streaming between microservices, and IoT events processing. With Amazon MemoryDB, all of […]