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GCP – Sembly AI boosts workplace productivity with voice AI platform running on Google Cloud
The number of online meetings has skyrocketed as organizations continue to rely on geographically distributed teams or employees who spend some of their time working from home. While virtual meetings helped businesses stay connected during COVID-19 restrictions, they’ve also become an integral part of how people work today and will continue to work going forward. […]
GCP – Optimize your cloud by exporting Active Assist recommendations to a BigQuery dataset
Active Assist provides insights and recommendations to help Google Cloud customers proactively optimize their cloud environments for cost, security, performance, and sustainability. If you’re like most customers, you’ve likely encountered these insights and recommendations in the console — either in the Recommendations Hub or embedded on a resource page, like IAM or the VM list […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports T4g database instances in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), and Middle East (UAE) Regions. T4g database instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance, with the ability to burst CPU usage at any time for as long as required. Depending […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches 6 new security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 6 new security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 264. The new controls conduct fully-automatic security checks against services such as Amazon CloudFront and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). To use these controls, you should first turn on the standard they belong to – […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Queue Storage SDK for Go
The new Azure Queue Storage SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that can store and retrieve messages in Azure Queue Storage. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing the Google Maps Platform Architecture Center
We are excited to announce the launch of Google Maps Platform’s Architecture Center! The Architecture Center is a central resource for product managers, architects, and technical leads who are looking to design a location-based application or accelerate the integration of Google Maps Platform into their products or infrastructure. We’ve learned from customers that there is […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files Availability zone volume placement enhancement – Populate existing volume
Populate previously deployed, existing volumes with the logical availability zone information to enable failure domain protection for workloads in specific availability zones. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Event Hubs SDK for Go
The new Azure Event Hubs SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that send and receive events from Azure Event Hubs. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Blob Storage SDK for Go
The new Azure Blob Storage SDK is now generally available for Go, allowing developers to build Go apps that interact with objects in Azure Blob Storage. Read More for the details.
GCP – Why Snap chose BeyondCorp Enterprise to build a durable Zero Trust framework
Snap Inc., creators of Snapchat, is a technology company that believes “the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.” Born in the cloud, Snap delivers its modern social media framework using Google Cloud. In 2023, Google Cloud and Snap announced an expanded relationship that included Snap choosing Google Cloud […]