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GCP – BigQuery’s user-friendly SQL: Elevating analytics, data quality, and security
SQL is used by approximately 7 million people worldwide to manage and analyze data on a daily basis. Whether you are a data engineer or analyst, how you manage and effectively use your data to provide business driven insights, has become more important than ever. BigQuery is an industry leading, fully-managed, cloud data warehouse, that […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Is4gen Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Is4gen instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built using AWS Nitro SSDs which reduce both latency and latency variability compared to the third generation of EC2 storage optimized […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty introduces cluster configurability in EKS Runtime Monitoring
Amazon GuardDuty announces a new capability in GuardDuty EKS Runtime Monitoring that allows you to selectively configure which Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters are to be monitored for threat detection. Previously, configurability was at the account level only. With this added cluster-level configurability, customers can now selectively monitor EKS clusters for threat detection […]
Azure – General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup support for Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
Azure Backup now supports Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3 Read More for the details.
Azure – WordPress on App Service – Free hosting plan now in Public Preview
Easy way to evaluate WordPress on App Service Read More for the details.
GCP – Photorealistic 3D Tiles now in Preview with updated daily quotas
In May 2023, we announced the experimental release of Photorealistic 3D Tiles to power immersive experiences. Now Photorealistic 3D Tiles is available in Preview through the Map Tiles API. To help developers do more with 3D Tiles, we’ve made updates to the quota and terms, added support for OAuth, and provided additional guidance on our […]
GCP – Accelerating operations at Delta Dental New Jersey with Google Cloud and Datadog
As CIO and acting CISO forDelta Dental of New Jersey and Connecticut, I’ve seen our dental insurance business — which is expanding to include vision insurance and other ancillary lines of coverage — evolve over the past few years to improve access to quality care and a better customer experience. Insurance buyers have higher expectations […]
GCP – How Compute Engine future reservations can help you get the capacity you need
Ever wondered how to obtain cloud capacity in advance of an important upcoming event — a sales promotion, holiday shopping period, game launch or your financial year-end closing? Or perhaps you anticipate needing compute capacity to perform a job like onboarding onto Compute Engine, migrating from one machine family or cloud region to another, or […]
GCP – Reducing BigQuery physical storage cost with new billing model
Introduction Google Cloud BigQuery is a scalable petabyte-scale data warehouse, renowned for its efficient Structured Query Language (SQL) capabilities. While BigQuery offers exceptional performance, cost optimization remains a critical aspect for any cloud-based service. This blog post focuses on reducing BigQuery storage costs through the utilization of the newly introduced Physical Bytes Storage Billing (PBSB) […]