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AWS – Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection adds on-demand scanning
Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection adds a new capability that allows customers to initiate on-demand malware scans of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, including instances used to host container workloads. Scans can be initiated using the GuardDuty console, or programmatically via the API, without the need to deploy security software and are designed to […]

AWS – AWS SimSpace Weaver Snapshots are now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce AWS SimSpace Weaver Snapshots, a new feature that allows SimSpace Weaver developers to save the state of their simulations at a specific point in time. Read More for the details.

GCP – Framing up FinOps: All about Google Cloud billing tools
If you didn’t catch or you need a refresher from our most recent Framing Up FinOps podcast, you’re in luck! In this blogpost, we recap highlights from our episode on Google Cloud billing tools and spotlight 10 FAQs. Read on for resources to help you better understand Cloud Billing. You can gain visibility into what’s […]

GCP – Unleash your Google Cloud data with ThoughtSpot, Looker, and BigQuery
Today’s businesses have to deliver innovation and operational improvements at high velocity — finding new ways to delight customers while paying close attention to efficient revenue growth. This goal translates to leveraging data and analytics in every part of their value chain, be it within the product they build and sell, supply chain, customer support, […]

GCP – Effingo: the internal Google copy service moving data at scale
Every hour of every day, Google moves a lot of data around the world. But how? With the Effingo (Latin for ‘to duplicate’ or ‘copy’) data copying service, a Google-only service that moves data internally and on Google Cloud customers’ behalf. As a Google Cloud customer perhaps you move data with Storage Transfer Service, a […]

GCP – Evaluating the true cost or TCO of a database — and how Cloud Spanner compares
When you are looking to modernize your organization’s tech stack or build a new transformational application, your choice of database becomes important. There are many factors including cost, security, scaling characteristics, self-managed vs. fully managed, on-prem vs. public cloud, etc., that go into the decision-making process. Cost is one of the key considerations for businesses […]

GCP – Scalable electronic trading on Google Cloud: A business case with BidFX
Imagine you just got the restaurant bill and you can see only one number: the total cost, tip included. You have a sense you overpaid. Also what about this significant delay with service? Is it reflected in the tip? It’s difficult to answer these questions if you don’t have visibility into a breakdown of the […]

GCP – Google Cloud and Equinix: Building Excellence in ML Operations (MLOps)
In recent years, machine learning (ML) has gained tremendous popularity as a powerful tool for solving complex problems across various domains. However, building and deploying ML models at scale can be challenging, as it involves a range of tasks such as data preparation, feature engineering, model training, deployment, monitoring, maintenance and so on. According to […]

GCP – Seeing the World: Vertex AI Vision Developer Toolkit
Over the past few years, breakthroughs in computer vision and video analytics have generated a lot of interest – and put attention on Developers who work with large amounts of video assets. Unfortunately, many of the benefits of these breakthroughs in computer vision have remained elusive. Vertex AI Vision makes it easy for developers to […]
GCP – Track, Trace and Triumph: How Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is harnessing Google Cloud to protect the state’s wildlife
A few years back, it would’ve taken more than half-a-day for an official of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR), part of the Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR), to track a Rocky Mountain elk. The process involved hauling a very high frequency (VFH) antenna to several locations until it picked up the signal […]