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GCP – Manage IAM permissions with the Google Cloud mobile app
What’s new with Permissions Management on the Cloud Mobile App Identity and Access Management (IAM) is the foundation of a strong cloud security posture, ensuring that the right access and permissions for cloud resources are granted across your organization. The Google Cloud mobile app gives cloud administrators the ability to quickly and easily manage their […]

GCP – Uptime checks for availability
A reliable system and end-user experience is critical to an organization’s success. Any downtime or degradation of user experience across an organization’s applications can impair their ability to create value for its stakeholders. Cloud Monitoring’s uptime check capability enables you to monitor your application’s availability and performance. The primary purpose of an uptime check is […]

GCP – Model accidents and potholes using Waze and NOAA data in BigQuery
Transportation agencies face the challenge of managing heavy amounts of data from diverse and high-velocity sources. It can be difficult to gather insights across the disparate sources, let alone be fast enough to inform operational decisions. Traditionally, agencies rely on yearly reporting to understand the state of their operations, but this limits their ability to […]

GCP – Bringing Google Cloud generative AI to popular workplace apps
Generative AI is poised to transform and streamline many of the most common processes and tasks each of us performs every day at work — like how we communicate, how we analyze data, how we interface with apps, or even how we summarize content and conversations. At Google Cloud, our open approach to generative AI […]

GCP – Tradera promotes sustainable shopping with Google Cloud
AtTradera, we have a saying, ‘Don’t be square, get circular.’ Our online circular marketplace only allows used, crafted, or restored items and spare parts for repairs to be sold. Our ethos to reduce and re-use is engrained throughout our business operations, down to our IT infrastructure. As one of the largest re-commerce platforms in Sweden, […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports State Persistence and Bookmarks for embedded dashboards
Amazon QuickSight now supports State Persistence for embedded dashboards (and consoles) for registered users. Embedded QuickSight dashboards now remember filter selections between visits when accessed as a registered QuickSight user. Registered users can also Bookmark specific views of the embedded dashboard, making it simple to access your preferences from one convenient location. For example, you […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports VPC Connections via public APIs with Multi-AZ support
Today, Amazon QuickSight announces the general availability of managing Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connections via public APIs and an enhanced UX with Multi-AZ support. APIs enable you to create, update, delete, list and describe VPC connections. This launch enables you to create private VPC connections as part of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) efforts with full […]

GCP – Dialing up the impact of digital natives in the MENA region with Google Cloud
Entrepreneurs with the passion to drive positive impact have been selecting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as the launchpad for their businesses since 2015, based on insights from Google Cloud’s digital natives unit. Today, the region is taking center stage due to the thousands of startups, digital natives, and web3 companies thriving. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer. Read More for the details.