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GCP – How Wayfair uses BeyondCorp Enterprise with Microsoft Intune to build a Zero Trust environment
A Zero Trust approach to security can help you safeguard your users, devices, apps and data. Using Google Cloud’s BeyondCorp Enterprise, organizations can enforce strict, context-aware access controls with authentication and authorization for a variety of devices, anywhere to help strengthen their security posture. The ability to craft rich, contextual access policies depends on the […]

GCP – Build intelligent applications with Neo4j Knowledge Graphs and Google Cloud generative AI
In this blog post, we’re going to show you how to use two technologies together: The generative AI functionality in Google Cloud Vertex AI, an ML development platform, and Neo4j, a graph database. Together these technologies can be used to build and interact with knowledge graphs. The code underlying this blog post is available here. […]

GCP – Study by Forrester: The industry’s take on 5G networks on cloud
The promise of 5G is captivating: innovative use cases, lower latency, greater bandwidth, and faster mobility. However, we understand that for Communication Service Providers (CSPs), the shift to 5G standalone (SA) core on cloud affects not only network operations, but also go-to-market and service delivery to consumers and enterprise customers. For CSPs that have implemented […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Ternary turns customers’ cloud-spending pain into gain
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. How can your company scale profitably in the cloud while spending to plan? And what do you do when your company’s cloud bill spikes unexpectedly? Ternary securely ingests, retains, and queries cloud billing data on […]

GCP – How to better manage customer identities to support an engaging ecommerce user experience
One of the fundamental questions that retailers constantly ask themselves is how well they know their customers and how they can build deeper relationships. Knowing who their customers are can have a direct impact on improving customer engagement, which can lead to increased conversion rates, customer loyalty, lifetime value, and higher return on marketing spend. […]

AWS – AWS Lake Formation launches Read-Only Administrator role
AWS Lake Formation is launching a Read-Only Administrator role which enables customers to add a Data Lake Administrator role with read-only permissions for Glue Data Catalog metadata and Lake Formation permissions. Previously, Data Lake Administrators could perform actions on the Glue Data Catalog and Lake Formation permissions, including modifying the Lake Formation grants and LF-Tags. […]

AWS – AWS launches a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Phoenix, Arizona. This new AWS Local Zone comes with Amazon EC2C6i, M6i, R6i and C6gn instances and Amazon EBS volume types gp2, gp3, io1, sc1, and st1. You can also access Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Application Load Balancer, AWS Direct Connect and NAT […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports AWS CloudFormation Templates
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, is a managed database service for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment. Starting today, you can deploy RDS Custom for Oracle using AWS CloudFormation templates. AWS CloudFormation simplifies provisioning and management of resources on AWS. Read […]

AWS – AWS Glue now available in 2 new regions
We are happy to announce that AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for Python 3.11
AWS Lambda now supports creating serverless applications using Python 3.11. Developers can use Python 3.11 as both a managed runtime and a container base image, and AWS will automatically apply updates to the managed runtime and base image as they become available. You can use Python 3.11 with Lambda@Edge, allowing you to customize low-latency content […]