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GCP – Uber’s modern edge: A new approach to network performance and efficiency
Picture this: You’re ordering an Uber in Lisbon, but your request takes a scenic tour through Madrid, London, and Virginia before confirming your ride. That was the case for millions of users until Uber and Google Cloud set out on an even bigger journey: redesigning how global edge networks should work. Operating across six continents, […]
AWS – Announcing expanded support for Cilium with Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes
Today, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) expands support for Cilium as the Container Networking Interface (CNI) for Amazon EKS Hybrid Nodes. Cilium is a Cloud-Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project that provides core networking capabilities for Kubernetes workloads. Now, you can receive support from AWS for a broader set of Cilium features when using […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity propagation (TIP), enabling admins to trace actions taken in SageMaker Studio back to a human user. It also enables administrators to manage permissions based on user identity to AWS Lake Formation and Amazon S3 Access Grants. Starting today, SageMaker Studio now supports trusted identity […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer now Supports Filtering for Multiple Values
Today, AWS Resource Explorer introduces support for filtering on multiple values in both the Search and ListResources APIs. This new feature allows customers to build targeted queries to find resources more easily. The new filtering feature allows customers to search for resources based on multiple criteria simultaneously, improving upon the previous process where they had […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB announces Extended Support for Version 3.6
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) offers Extended Support for version 3.6, allowing customers to maintain critical workloads on version 3.6 for up to three years beyond the standard support end date on March 30, 2026. This is designed for customers who may need more time to plan and implement version upgrades, especially when navigating application […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB now supports more frequent throughput mode updates from provisioned to on-demand capacity
You can now update your Amazon DynamoDB table throughput mode from provisioned capacity to on-demand mode up to four times in a rolling 24-hour period. This enhancement makes it simpler for customers who have use cases which require loading large volumes of data into their DynamoDB tables multiple times per day, or want greater flexibility […]
GCP – How Google does it: Your guide to platform engineering
What guides your approach to software development? In our roles at Google, we’re constantly working to build better software, faster. Within Google, our Developer Platform team and Google Cloud have a strategic partnership and a shared strategy: together, we take our internal capabilities and engineering tools and package them up for Google Cloud customers. At […]
GCP – Start and scale your apps faster with improved container image streaming in GKE
In today’s fast-paced cloud-native world, the speed at which your applications can start and scale is paramount. Faster pod startup times mean quicker responses to user demand, more efficient resource utilization, and a more agile development and deployment lifecycle overall. We’re continuously working to enhance the performance of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to help you […]
GCP – Designing a multi-tenant GKE platform for Yahoo Mail’s migration journey
Yahoo is in the midst of a multi-year journey to migrate its renowned Yahoo Mail application onto Google Cloud. With more than 100 services and middleware components in the application, Yahoo Mail is primarily taking a lift-and-shift approach for its on-premises infrastructure, and strategically transforming and replatforming key components and middleware to leverage cloud-native capabilities. […]
GCP – Smarter Authoring, Better Code: How AI is Reshaping Google Cloud’s Developer Experience
The mission of the Google Cloud Developer Experience team is simple: to help developers get from learning to launching as quickly and effectively as possible. Two of our primary tools for this are the robust hands-on documentation and the ready-to-use code samples embedded directly within it, which developers rely on every day. As Google Cloud’s […]