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AWS – AWS Config simplifies usage analysis with Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Starting today, the Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring AWS Config data usage will display only billable usage. With this enhancement, non-billable usage will no longer be displayed in both the Amazon CloudWatch Config metrics and AWS Config console. This allows you to validate AWS Config setup and usage using Amazon CloudWatch metrics and correlate billable […]

Azure – Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports Resource tags
Azure Chaos Studio is now supporting resource tags. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Tour the new Security Command Center Enterprise
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for April 2024. In this update, my colleague Sunil Potti gives a leaders’ tour of Security Command Center Enterprise — and how it can help security teams better manage risk across their growing cloud deployments. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted […]

GCP – 5 ways Service Extensions callouts can improve your Cloud Load Balancing environment
In today’s dynamic digital infrastructure landscape, where reliability, scalability, and performance are paramount, Google Cloud Application Load Balancers have emerged as indispensable tools for ensuring connectivity and an optimal user experience. Using Service Extensions callouts, organizations can customize and extend their edge environment using gRPC calls to user-managed services during data processing. Service Extensions callouts […]

GCP – Woven by Toyota decreased their AI training times by 20% by using Cloud Storage FUSE
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Woven by Toyota, the internal team behind Toyota’s Automated Driving (AD) and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) technologies, as well as “Woven City” — a test course for mobility in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Both of these technologies — and many others — are built on Woven by Toyota’s […]

GCP – In-context observability with customizable dashboards everywhere on Google Cloud
Unified observability and quick troubleshooting are vital for any application and system running in the cloud, including popular Google Cloud products. At the same time, different companies and development teams have different needs, and a one-size-fits-all observability dashboard often falls short. Over the past year, dozens of Google Cloud teams have added deep-dive observability dashboards […]

GCP – Long document summarization with Workflows and Gemini models
With generative AI top of mind for both developers and business stakeholders, it’s important to explore how products like Workflows, Google Cloud’s serverless execution engine, can automate and orchestrate large language model (LLM) use cases. We recently covered how to orchestrate Vertex AI’s PaLM and Gemini APIs with Workflows. In this blog, we illustrate how […]

GCP – Google Cloud named a leader in the 2024 Forrester Wave™: Data Lakehouses
To unlock the value of AI, organizations recognize that they need to combine their data and AI. That also means they need a simple way to manage the entire data-to-AI lifecycle. Tens of thousands of organizations already choose BigQuery and its integrated AI capabilities to power their data clouds. Today, we’re excited to announce that […]

GCP – Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Hardening and Protecting Infrastructure, Identities and Endpoints
Written by: Matthew McWhirt, Omar ElAhdan, Glenn Staniforth, Brian Meyer Multi-faceted extortion via ransomware and/or data theft is a popular end goal for attackers, representing a global threat targeting organizations in all industries. The impact of a successful ransomware event can be material to an organization, including the loss of access to data, systems, and prolonged […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon Q Business and Amazon Q Apps (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Business and the preview of Amazon Q Apps, a new Amazon Q Business capability. Amazon Q Business revolutionizes the way that employees interact with organizational knowledge and enterprise systems. It helps users get comprehensive answers to complex questions and take actions in a unified, intuitive web-based […]