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AWS – Extend your Amazon Managed Grafana experience with Grafana community plugins
Amazon Managed Grafana now features a new self-service plugin management experience for Grafana community plugins. With this release, Amazon Managed Grafana administrators can discover and install Grafana community plugins directly from their workspace. Plugins enable you to extend your Grafana experience, unifying data from a wider variety of data sources with visualizations tailored to analyze […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 6TiB of memory (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Europe (London) and Europe (Spain) Regions. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.
GCP – Early Registration Now Open for Google Cloud Next ’24 (April 9-11) in Las Vegas
Google Cloud Next is heading to Las Vegas in 2024 from April 9th to 11th, and I’m excited to announce that registration opens today. With a new location, fresh programming, hundreds of partners, and the latest in AI, analytics, security, infrastructure, collaboration and more, Google Cloud Next ‘24 is set to be our biggest event […]
AWS – New self-guided Software Path experience
In October, AWS launched a self-guided experience in AWS Partner Central with automated tasks that accelerates the partner journey from registration to listing in AWS Marketplace. Now, we’ve extended that guidance throughout the Software Path, providing partners with the personalized tasks and guidance to help you develop and mature your software offering(s). As you progress […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in, M6in, M6idn, R6in, and R6idn instances now support higher Amazon EBS-optimized instance performance
Today, we are announcing an improvement to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) performance of Amazon Compute-Optimized C6in, General Purpose M6in and M6idn, and Memory-Optimized R6in and R6idn EC2 instance types. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing BigQuery cross-region replication: enhanced geo-redundancy for your data
Geographical redundancy is one of the keys to designing a resilient data lake architecture in the cloud. Some of the use cases for customers to replicate data geographically are to provide for low-latency reads (where data is closer to end users), comply with regulatory requirements, colocate data with other services, and maintain data redundancy for […]
GCP – Generative AI use cases to inspire your Startup or Small Business
Everyday, more and more small businesses and startups are leveraging generative AI for their internal and customer-facing needs, with over 70% of gen AI’s billion dollar-unicorns using Google Cloud. As the technology continues moving at a rapid pace, with almost daily announcements of products and features, businesses are discovering new use cases and ways to […]
GCP – Accelerating a carbon-free future with hourly energy tracking
In 2020, Google announced its most ambitious clean energy goal yet: to operate on 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) globally by 2030. This means matching the electricity demand from our global operations, including our data centers and offices, with carbon-free energy supply – every hour of every day, in every region where we operate. When we […]
GCP – Cloud Deploy adds pipeline automation and Cloud Run Jobs support
Today, we’re excited to announce the latest update in Google Cloud’s portfolio of DevOps tools. Customers are already using Cloud Deploy for continuous delivery, enabling the definition and manual control of application delivery pipelines, facilitating canary deployments and verification, and more. And now, with the introduction of delivery pipeline automation in preview, Cloud Deploy now […]
GCP – The Content Conundrum: How poor personalization and search experiences impact streaming platforms and their audiences
In an unexpected plot twist,streaming platforms are currently facing their own cliffhanger as an unprecedented period of slowing subscriber growth. According to Macquarie Research, net subscription adds dropped more than 80% YoY in Q1 2022 across Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, HBO Max/Discovery+, Paramount+, Peacock, and AMC+C. With endless content now available across a multitude of […]