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AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds total positioning options for pivot table
Amazon QuickSight now supports total positioning option for both rows and columns in pivot tables, providing authors added flexibility to style and present tabular data according to their specific use cases and individual needs. Additionally, it makes it easier to compare and view totals which could otherwise be multiple scrolls or pages away. Read More […]
GCP – Easier log management for multi-tenancy through new routing features
At Google Cloud, we believe you should have full control over your log data. That’s why we created the Log Router, which gives you the flexibility to choose which logs are stored in Cloud Logging, sent to other Google Cloud products like Cloud Storage, or even sent to your favorite third-party product. Customers tell us […]
Azure – LSA payload update for fixes on 15-Jan
On the 15-Jan we are going to fix those 2 values in LSA payload to contain the correct values according to our other alerts services. Read More for the details.
Azure – ExpressRoute Traffic Collector is now generally available
Use ExpressRoute Traffic Collector to enable collection of flow logs for traffic sent over your ExpressRoute direct circuit. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Files has been improved to support all valid Unicode characters
Azure Files now supports an expanded character set enabling file and directory names with all valid Unicode characters. Read More for the details.
GCP – FinOps from the field: Leveraging Cloud FinOps to measure the business value realized by the cloud transformation
Abstract Almost two decades into the era of cloud transformation, countless companies are adopting cloud-based systems. Prior to making the switch, most conduct a thorough business case analysis, identifying potential savings and benefits. To manage cloud costs, many organizations are establishing FinOps practice across their teams. However, some time into the journey, questions arise: “Did […]
GCP – Active Assist change risk recommenders: Introducing a new way to prevent misconfigurations
Tl;dr: Active Assistcan now help you reduce the risk of cloud infrastructure misconfigurations by intelligently flagging common risky changes to your most important resources and providing recommendations to prevent and mitigate issues. Initially, Active Assist can safeguard against high-risk deletions of projects, service accounts, and changes to IAM policies. This feature is available to all […]
GCP – Query fresh Google Ads data in BigQuery, via Apache Beam and Dataflow
Modern marketers know that in the digital ad marketplace, speed is the key to maximizing the return on investment on your ad spend. The challenge is that most advertisers rely on data that is days, weeks, or even months old — and in an environment that moves as quickly as the time to return a […]
GCP – How it works: The novel HTTP/2 ‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS attack
A number of Google services and Cloud customers have been targeted with a novel HTTP/2-based DDoS attack which peaked in August. These attacks were significantly larger than any previously-reported Layer 7 attacks, with the largest attack surpassing 398 million requests per second. The attacks were largely stopped at the edge of our network by Google’s […]
GCP – Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398 million rps
Over the last few years, Google’s DDoS Response Team has observed the trend that distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasing exponentially in size. Last year, we blocked the largest DDoS attack recorded at the time. This August, we stopped an even larger DDoS attack — 7½ times larger — that also used new techniques to […]