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AWS – CodePipeline support for GitLab Groups
You can now use repositories in your project in a GitLab.com Group to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. Connect your GitLab.com account using AWS CodeStar Connections, and use the connection in your pipeline to automatically start a pipeline execution on changes in your repository. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Cloud Map now supports AWS PrivateLink. You can now use AWS PrivateLink to privately access AWS Cloud Map APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your data through public internet. Creating VPC Endpoints incurs charges. See the AWS PrivateLink pricing page for more information. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports IP address access restrictions in GitHub Enterprise Cloud
Today, AWS announces that using Amazon CodeCatalyst with source repositories hosted in GitHub is now compatible with IP address access restrictions in GitHub Organizations. This ensures that CodeCatalyst is compatible with all features in GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports managed Apache Flink (Public Preview)
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports managed Apache Flink, available in public preview. With this launch, customers who already use EMR can run their Apache Flink application along with other types of applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster, helping improve resource utilization and simplify infrastructure management. For […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early September 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2023. I’ll be talking about what I’m looking forward to at this year’s mWISE Conference, which opens its doors on Monday in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most unique conferences a security professional or business leader can attend. You can register to attend the conference […]
GCP – Introducing dynamic topic destinations in Pub/Sub using Dataflow
Pub/Sub plays a key role in powering data streaming insights across a number of verticals. With the increasing adoption of streaming analytics, we’re seeing companies with more complex and nuanced use cases. One particular use case for using Pub/Sub is being able to ingest data from multiple various teams and data sources, sort that data […]
GCP – VMware scales multi-cloud security with Workforce Identity Federation
Working in multi-cloud environments gives organizations more flexibility to build and optimize applications. However, operating in multiple environments can also introduce new complexities and risks. VMware provides a wide range of solutions to help address them, and as a multi-cloud organization ourselves, we see some of our customers’ challenges firsthand. Maintaining compliance across all of […]
GCP – Expanding your Bigtable architecture with change streams
Engineers use Bigtable to hold vast amounts of transactional and analytical information as part of their data workflow. We are excited about the release of Bigtable change streams that will enhance these data workflows for event-based architectures and offline processing. In this article, we will cover the new feature and a few example applications that […]
GCP – How to optimize your existing queries with search indexes
In October 2022, BigQuerylaunched the search indexes and SEARCH function that enable using Google Standard SQL to efficiently pinpoint specific data elements in unstructured text and semi-structured data. In a previous blog post, we demonstrated the performance gains achievable by utilizing search indexes on the SEARCH function. Today, BigQuery expands the optimization capabilities to a […]
GCP – Applying Generative AI to product design with BigQuery DataFrames
For any company, naming a product or service is complex and time-consuming. This process is particularly challenging in the pharmaceutical industry. Typically, companies start by brainstorming and researching thousands of names. They must ensure that the names are unique, compliant with regulations, and easy to pronounce and remember. With so many factors to consider, multiplied […]