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GCP – Troubleshoot and optimize your BigQuery analytics queries with query execution graph
We all want queries to run faster, better, and cheaper. BigQuery certainly does! But queries can get complicated quickly; this sometimes makes manual optimization necessary and unavoidable. BigQuery is a complex distributed system, and numerous internal and external factors can influence query speed. Understanding what is going on might be a bit of a puzzle. […]
GCP – Deploy to Cloud Run with GitHub Actions
Google Cloud customers rely on a mixture of Google Cloud services and third party software. In this blog, we discuss how to deploy Google Cloud Run from GitHub Actions using code from example workflows built by Google. We focus on deploying Cloud Run with a declarative service YAML to multiple environments. Guidance on how to […]
GCP – Navigating Google Cloud: a decision tree for storage workloads
Google Cloud has a vast array of storage options to meet your workload needs, including block storage for high-performance applications, object storage for workloads including content distribution and AI/ML, file storage for workloads including those that require multi-writer capabilities, and specialized storage for data lakes and warehouses. As the second installment in our decision-tree series […]
GCP – Five quick ways to optimize your cloud spend with Google Cloud FinOps
The economic climate is unpredictable, with factors such as rising inflation, supply chain disruptions, and increasing costs compelling businesses to optimize expenses and implement financial resilience strategies. While it is widely acknowledged that leveraging the cloud can lead to reduced IT capital expenses, it is worth noting that a well-executed cloud strategy can also facilitate […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Load Testing in Southeast Asia, Canada Central, Germany West Central and Central India
Azure Load Testing is in generally available in Southeast Asia, Canada Central, Germany West Central and Central India. Read More for the details.
AWS – Generative BI dashboard authoring capabilities for Amazon QuickSight (Preview)
Amazon QuickSight customers now have three new Generative business intelligence (BI) capabilities available in preview. First, business analysts using QuickSight can now build visualizations by specifying what they want to see in natural language. For example, “Show me count of orders in 2023 by city as a map” will instantly render a geographic map visualization […]
AWS – Amazon Titan Embeddings is now generally available
Amazon Titan Embeddings is a text embeddings model that converts natural language text including single words, phrases, or even large documents, into numerical representations that can be used to power use cases such as search, personalization, and clustering based on semantic similarity. Optimized for text retrieval to enable Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use cases, Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
Amazon Bedrock, the easiest way to build and scale generative AI applications with foundation models (FMs), is now generally available. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing FMs from leading AI companies including AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Stability AI, and Amazon, along with a broad set of capabilities […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region, enabling customers to deploy essential network protections for all their Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS WAF now supports JA3 Fingerprint Match
AWS WAF now supports JA3 match, enabling customers to inspect incoming requests’ JA3 fingerprints. Customers can use the JA3 match to implement custom logic to block malicious clients or allow requests from expected clients only. Read More for the details.