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GCP – Supporting startups building with Google Cloud AI technology in Asia-Pacific
Whether it’s helping doctors detect diseases earlier or enabling people to access information in their own language, startups around the world are using AI to solve societal problems and positively impact their communities — and Google is proud to help. As a company, we embrace the opportunity to work with others to get AI right. […]
GCP – Best practices for monetizing cloud-based technology and 5G networks
Leaders among Communications Service Providers (CSPs) are choosing to modernize on cloud to better monetize their 5G network investments. We are interested in learning how the industry, as a whole, is progressing on these initiatives. Are there best practices that can be shared? What are the primary challenges, and how are the more advanced CSPs […]
GCP – How CI&T accelerated development by 11% with AI from Tabnine and Google Cloud
Whether it’s predictive text, real-time language translation, or voice assistants, code is the foundation of every AI-driven application. While AI plays a critical role in the output of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), AI also can accelerate it. Tabnine, an AI-powered code completion assistant, is helping developers get next-generation applications from planning to development and […]
GCP – How to solve customer challenges when security patching Google Kubernetes Engine
Editor’s note: This blog post has been adapted from the April 2023 Threat Horizons Report. Cloud customers are increasingly running their compute workloads in Kubernetes clusters due to the availability, flexibility, and security they provide. Just like other IT assets, these clusters need to be routinely patched to keep their features current and to install […]
GCP – Choosing the right MongoDB type on Google Cloud
If you want to run MongoDB on Google Cloud, we’ve got you covered. You can choose from MongoDB Atlas, or MongoDB Community Edition. But based on customer feedback, we know it can be difficult to choose the right deployment option for MongoDB on Google Cloud. In this blog, we’ll help you choose the right MongoDB […]
GCP – ETS Sponsorship and Google Public Sector partner to support veterans transitioning to civilian life
Each year, more than nearly 200,000 service members leave the U.S. military. Of these, 30% leave service without a job, and 71% don’t sign up for Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits. As former CIO for the U.S. Department of the Navy, I’ve seen how difficult it can be for service members to successfully transition into post-military life. […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces one-click security protections
You can now secure your web applications and APIs with AWS WAF with a single click in the Amazon CloudFront console. CloudFront can create and configure out-of-the-box AWS WAF protection for your application as a first line of defense against common web threats. Optionally, you can later configure additional security protections against bots and fraud […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports AWS X-Ray tracing for SnapStart-enabled functions
You can now use AWS X-Ray to trace and analyze your Lambda functions enabled with Lambda SnapStart. You can use X-Ray traces to gain deeper visibility into your function’s performance and execution lifecycle, helping you identify errors and performance bottlenecks for your latency-sensitive Java applications built using SnapStart-enabled functions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports faster automatic deletion of unconfirmed subscriptions
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports automatic deletion of unconfirmed subscriptions once they have been in a pending confirmation state for 48 hours. This reduces the time to delete your unconfirmed subscriptions from the previous 72 hour period. This applies to all new subscriptions and does not require any on-boarding. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports AWS User Notifications
Today, AWS Backup is announcing support for managing your backup notifications from the AWS User Notifications console. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and hybrid workloads. This launch enables you to easily configure, monitor, and manage your notifications related to AWS Backup from a central […]