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AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions now provides an enhanced visual mode for schema editing
Amazon Verified Permissions now provides customers with a new visual schema editor, in addition to the existing JSON editor, in the Verified Permissions console. Customers can now visualize the relationships between the entities used to model principals, resources and actions. Read More for the details.

GCP – Increase Compute Engine VM performance with custom queues
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GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Why ISACs are valuable security partners
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2023. Google Cloud has announced multiple collaborations with sector-specific information sharing and analysis centers over the past 18 months, and in my column today I’ll be discussing why these ISACs are valuable partners for Google Cloud and our industry. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the […]

GCP – A Cloud Run service was slow, here’s how we fixed it
During a stress test, an app became slow with high response times, to the point where it was almost unresponsive. Let’s find out why! I helped Nexuzhealth debug a performance issue in their Go app on Cloud Run. Nexuzhealth is a Belgian healthcare IT company that makes medical record management better and more efficient for […]

GCP – Be a Regional Persistent Disk monitoring superhero: How to know when you’re at RPO=0
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you were always in the know about how your mission-critical workload was doing on Google Cloud? Perhaps you are a compliance officer that is in charge of regulatory compliance of your applications or a cloud administrator that cares deeply about application observability, to ensure that they run smoothly in the […]

GCP – Creating a SaaS Platform on Google Kubernetes Engine
Software as a Service (SaaS) is the delivery method of choice for software vendors looking to serve a turnkey and reliable product experience to their end customers. There are many considerations a company must take into account when building a SaaS offering, one of which of course is the framework you will use to run […]

GCP – Top five ways generative AI can drive value in capital markets
From broker-dealers and hedge funds to wealth managers and trust companies, capital markets ecosystem participants are increasingly looking to scale and grow by transforming their extensive knowledge into value-added experiences. Traditional banks acquired brokerage firms years ago to meet the need to connect with investors, and now, they find themselves competing with robo-advisors and digital-first […]

GCP – The four building blocks of responsible generative AI in banking
The future of banking is generative. While headlines often exaggerate how generative AI (gen AI) will radically transform finance, the truth is more nuanced. At Google Cloud, we’re optimistic about gen AI’s potential to improve the banking sector for both banks and their customers. We also believe that it can be done in a responsible […]

GCP – Unlocking the power of semi-structured data with the JSON Type in BigQuery
Enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate, spanning traditional structured transactional data, semi-structured data like JSON and unstructured data like images and audio. The diversity and volume of data presents complex architectural challenges for data processing, data storage and query engines, requiring developers to build custom transformation pipelines to deal with semi-structured and unstructured […]
GCP – How Cloud SQL helped Build Beyond with Gramercy Tech & Vatom
Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from two digital events agencies, Gramercy Tech, a New York-based digital agency specializing in digital experiences,and Vatom, a Los Angeles-based company focusing on Web3 software, on their experience working with Google’s Cloud SQL to build and scale a virtual world. Regardless of where your organization resides in […]