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GCP – Running out of IP addresses for your Kubernetes Pods? Here’s a tried and true solution
One of Kubernetes’ big selling points is that each Pod has its own network address. This makes the Pod behave a bit like a VM, and frees developers from worrying about pesky things like port conflicts. It’s a property of Kubernetes that makes things easier for developers and operators, and has been credited as one […]
GCP – Transforming customer feedback: analyzing audio customer reviews with BigQuery ML’s speech-to-text
BigQuery’s integrated speech-to-text functionality offers a powerful tool for unlocking valuable insights hidden within audio data. This service transcribes audio files, such as customer review calls, into text format, making them ready for analysis within BigQuery’s robust data platform. By combining speech-to-text with BigQuery’s analytics capabilities, you can delve into customer sentiment, identify recurring product […]
GCP – Transform your telecom applications with multi-networking and Kubernetes
Traditional Kubernetes networking excels at basic Pod-to-Pod connectivity, but can fall short when addressing the security, performance, and compliance demands of telecom workloads. This limits telecom providers’ ability to fully leverage Kubernetes’ scalability and agility benefits. Google Cloud’s multi-networking approach empowers telecom providers to overcome these limitations, enabling capabilities such as but not limited to: […]
GCP – From Assistant to Analyst: The Power of Gemini 1.5 Pro for Malware Analysis
The explosive growth of malware continues to challenge traditional, manual analysis methods, underscoring the urgent need for improved automation and innovative approaches. Generative AI models have become invaluable in some aspects of malware analysis, yet their effectiveness in handling large and complex malware samples has been limited. The introduction of Gemini 1.5 Pro, capable of […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Change Analysis New Portal Experience
Viewing changes to your Azure resources just became easier! With Azure Resource Graph’s Change Analysis, you can now view all your resource changes across all your tenants and subscriptions in the Azure Portal. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Extensibility model in Azure Deployment Environments
Azure Deployment Environments is adding a new extensibility model that empowers customers to customize deployment workflows using Bicep, Terraform, Pulumi, or any other infrastructure-as-code (IaC) framework of their choice. Read More for the details.
Azure – Updated Retirement Notice: Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024
Azure Data Catalog will now be retired on 15 May 2024 – migrate to Microsoft Purview Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodePipeline supports stage level manual and automated rollback
AWS CodePipeline V2 type pipelines now support stage level rollback to help customers to confidently deploy changes to their production environment. When a pipeline execution fails in a stage due to any action(s) failing, customers can quickly get that stage to a known good state by rolling back to a previously successful pipeline execution in […]
AWS – Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager default policies now supports AWS Organizations
Customers can now create and manage default policies across their entire organization or organizational unit (OU) with AWS CloudFormation StackSets. Default policies work in conjunction with customers’ existing backup mechanisms to only create EBS-backed AMIs and EBS Snapshots of instances and volumes without recent backups. This helps administrators ensure that all member accounts have comprehensive […]
AWS – Restore running applications to pre-update state in Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
You can now restore your Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink application to the previous running version and application state from the most recent, successful snapshot. This feature will work when your application is running and is most useful when you want to immediately rollback to the previous application version to mitigate downstream impact of […]