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GCP – Calbag chooses simplicity, speed, and security with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Jim Perris, Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations for Calbag Metals, a scrap metal recycler and seller based in Portland, Oregon. Calbag adopted ChromeOS devices to simplify the transition to the cloud for their 80-person small business. Calbag, a buyer, recycler, and seller of scrap metal, is in […]

GCP – Using machine learning to help ZSL & Network Rail monitor and improve biodiversity near British railways
Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pipistrellus_female-1.jpg Example of a Common Pipistrellus Bat, similar to those identified as part of our study. Network Rail recently commissioned international conservation charity, ZSL (Zoological Society of London) to develop cutting-edge methods for monitoring lineside biodiversity throughout the British rail network. Building on our longstanding partnership, we helped ZSL build a data and […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Agent adds support for OpenTelemetry traces and AWS X-Ray
Amazon CloudWatch, the native monitoring and observability service provided by AWS, has added CloudWatch Agent support for the collection of AWS X-Ray and OpenTelemetry traces. Whether you’re already an X-Ray customer, or just getting started with OpenTelemetry, you are now able to collect metrics, logs, and traces with a single agent, simplifying installation, configuration and […]

AWS – Amazon EventBridge API Destinations is now available in additional regions
Amazon EventBridge API Destinations is now available in Europe (Spain, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka, Hyderabad) and Middle East (UAE) regions, making event-driven applications more extensible by allowing you to send events to any HTTP APIs for self-managed or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Authorization is built in so you don’t have to write or manage additional […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches hierarchy layout for pivot tables
Amazon QuickSight introduces a new layout option called hierarchy layout for pivot tables. This allows users to view data in a hierarchical manner, where all row fields are presented in a single column with indentation to differentiate between items from different fields. The hierarchy layout optimizes space by reducing the footprint of row fields, creating […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2023 Release Update
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2023 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database versions 19c and 21c. Read More for the details.

AWS – PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 is now available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to evaluate the pre-release of PostgreSQL 16 on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. You can deploy PostgreSQL 16 Beta 3 in the Preview Environment that has the benefits of a fully managed database, […]

GCP – Ten tips on how to learn the new way to cloud at Google Cloud Next ‘23
There’s been an explosion in demand for generative AI skills in the past six months, and it just keeps growing. The productivity savings from gen AI alone could add trillions of dollars in value to the global economy.1 That’s why this year at Google Cloud Next, we’ve made learning new generative AI skills a top […]

GCP – 4 key learnings to kickstart your startup’s generative AI journey
In recent months, AI has been the name of the game. Businesses and consumers clamor to get their hands on the latest technology. At Google Cloud, we’re excited about the value AI holds for society, businesses and for the billions of people who use our products every day. To make the most of the technology, […]
GCP – Using Google Cloud’s new Pricing API
If you are an existing Google Cloud user, you might already be familiar with the Billing Catalog API, which provides programmatic access to list prices for all public services and SKUs in billing. A service groups together SKUs of the same product line. Recently, Google Cloud released a new Pricing API that is an improvement […]