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AWS – Amazon SNS now supports FIFO topics in five additional regions
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) FIFO topics in five additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Middle East (UAE). You can use Amazon SNS FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be […]
AWS – Amazon Inspector now allows customers to search its vulnerability intelligence database
Amazon Inspector now allows customers to search its vulnerability intelligence database if any of the Inspector scanning types is activated. With this expanded capability, customers can retrieve the details for any vulnerability stored in Inspector vulnerability database and covered by Inspector’s scanning engine by simply providing a Common Vulnerability and Enumerations (CVE) ID, for example, […]
AWS – Amazon EFS Replication is now available in all AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Replication is now available in 10 more AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), in addition to the 19 AWS Regions and 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions […]
GCP – Google Cloud Partners with Code of Support to help veterans & caregivers build cloud computing skills
Today, Code of Support Foundation (COSF) announces a new partnership with Google Cloud to provide complimentary Google Cloud Skills Boost access to 500 veterans and caregivers. This is part of a larger effort to connect those transitioning from military service to careers in cloud computing and technical jobs. COSF operates the national PATRIOTlink® network of […]
Azure – Preview: Cloud Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Palo Alto Networks – an Azure Native ISV Service
The first ISV next-generation firewall service natively integrated in Azure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Query plan samples for Cloud Spanner: get performance insights from query execution plans
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database that offers near unlimited scale, strong consistency, and industry leading high availability of up to 99.999%. Cloud Spanner also supports both GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL dialects. Providing an excellent troubleshooting experience is one of the most important focus areas for Cloud Spanner. Last year, we launched Query insights, […]
GCP – A leading Open SaaS ecommerce platform’s journey toward Kafka modernization and real-time data analytics
When a company utilizes an outdated IT infrastructure, management and maintenance become more problematic as it scales. This often prevents businesses from acting quickly to embrace new opportunities for innovation. Fortunately, avoiding these challenges is now easier than ever thanks to the availability of proven cloud services. A few years ago BigCommerce (NASDAQ: BIGC), a […]
GCP – Introducing Workload Manager: Maximize reliability and performance by automating best practices
Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Workload Manager, now available for SAP solutions. Workload Manager is a new Compute Engine service that provides continuous analysis of your workload configurations to identify issues, detect misconfigurations, and improve system reliability. Safeguarding business critical systems Customers often tell us that configuring and maintaining large-scale, […]
GCP – Running ML models now easier with new Dataflow ML innovations on Apache Beam
According to Harvard Business Review, only 20% of companies see their models go into production for AI. Google Cloud Dataflow builds on one of the most popular open source frameworks, Apache Beam, which is a unified programming model and SDK for developing batch and streaming pipelines. Continuing our commitment to building an open product, working […]
GCP – When one becomes two: Resource hierarchy strategies for divested organization
Whether it’s to pursue a new business strategy or to seek increased focus and independence, companies divest parts of their assets and form separate business entities all the time. These divested entities can be completely independent of the parent organization or still maintain some level of association. But whatever form they take, the presence of […]