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GCP – Securing software supply chain with Endor Labs Dependency Management on Google Cloud
Open-source software (OSS) is a type of software that anyone can use, modify and distribute. Development teams can gain tremendous benefits from leveraging the OSS ecosystem, as long as organizations invest in the tooling to address the security, scalability, and sustainability challenges that come with it. Without this tooling, organizations and their software delivery pipelines […]
GCP – Banco BV modernizes its banking apps with GKE and Anthos
Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from Banco BV about their application modernization journey with Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Banco BV migrated its banking apps from the OpenShift platform in the data center to GKE in Google Cloud, and uses Anthos Service Mesh and Config Sync to manage its GKE clusters […]
GCP – Expanding 24/7 multilingual support: Now in Mandarin Chinese and Korean
At Google Cloud, we fully grasp that the need for technical support can arise at any hour. Further, the importance of communicating in a language you’re comfortable is paramount, particularly when dealing with urgent issues. To help, we’re expanding the current 8×5 support offering to 24×7 for P1 and P2 cases for Korean Enhanced and […]
GCP – Smart City Zurich: How Anthos is driving the city’s digital transformation
How can Municipal IT departments support cities’ digital transformation? Ask Reto Hirt, lead IT architect at Zurich’s information technology center OIZ. In this guest blog post, Hirt takes us behind the scenes of his department, which supports the city’s digital acceleration. He shares the unique IT challenges in the public sector, how Zurich’s IT is […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store increases API throughput limit
Parameter Store, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports up to 10,000 transactions per second (TPS) for GetParameter and GetParameters APIs, increased from the previous 3,000 TPS limit. Parameter Store allows you to securely store configuration data and secrets as hierarchical key-value pairs. You can flexibly store parameters such as API keys, subnet IDs, […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize improves quality for batch recommendations by using the latest streamed data
Amazon Personalize now uses the latest streamed data for batch recommendations, improving recommendation quality by capturing recent user interactions. Batch recommendations now use newly recorded events streamed via Personalize’s event tracker to generate recommendations without requiring retraining of the model. Previously, batch recommendations would only consider the interactions up to the point of the last […]
AWS – AWS Wickr is now available in the Canada (Central) Region
AWS Wickr is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. This expansion allows organizations based in Canada to establish an AWS Wickr network in their geography to help facilitate compliance with local data residency needs and other regulations. The expansion also allows organizations to manage networks across multiple commercial regions and marks the beginning […]
Azure – General Availability: Azure Native New Relic Service
Enable full stack cloud monitoring and leverage rich deep integration capabilities between Azure and New Relic, with Azure Native New Relic Service now generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in Sweden Central
Reduce spending by storing rarely accessed data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes higher frequency metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect now publishes flow metrics to Amazon CloudWatch in 1-second intervals, instead of the previous 1-minute interval rate. These metrics can be retrieved using the console or the CloudWatch API at 1-second periods for up to 3 hours after the datapoints are created. Read More for the details.