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AWS – AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Shield Advanced now supports AWS CloudFormation. Starting today, you can easily create and configure Shield Advanced protections against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a CloudFormation template. With CloudFormation, you can use a programming language or simple text file to automatically configure resource protections in a secure, efficient and repeatable way. Shield resource […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces announces support for NICE DCV Extension SDK
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces provides support for the NICE DCV Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). This SDK allows customers and independent software vendors (ISVs) to build custom extensions for the Amazon WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP), which is powered by NICE DCV technology. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Polly launches two new female NTTS voices in Irish English and Danish
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Niamh and Sofie – new Irish English and Danish female Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices for Amazon Polly. Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Read […]

Azure – General availability: Azure CNI powered by Cilium
Leverage next generation eBPF dataplane for pod networking, Kubernetes network policies and service load balancing. Read More for the details.

Azure – Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline with GitHub Actions for Stream Analytics Jobs
Are you using GitHub for managing your Stream Analytics project and looking to leverage GitHub’s powerful CI/CD pipeline? Follow this comprehensive guide and learn to set up a CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions for your Stream Analytics jobs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud Bigtable under the hood: How we improved single-row read throughput by 20-50%
Cloud Bigtable is a scalable, distributed, high-performance NoSQL database that processes more than 6 billion requests per second at peak and has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management. Operating at this scale, Bigtable is highly optimized for high-throughput and low-latency reads and writes. Even so, our performance engineering team continually explores new areas […]

GCP – Partnering with RegTech companies to transform financial services
For years, Google Cloud has been driving business transformation across the financial services industry with native and partner solutions. These solutions help customers drive top line growth, improve efficiency, and better manage risk. Among these are a growing number of tools for improving how financial services organizations solve for increasingly complex regulatory requirements. Collectively known […]

GCP – Realizing cloud value for a render platform at Wayfair – Part 1
At Wayfair, we have content creation pipelines that automate some portions of 3D model and 3D scene creation, and render images from those models/scenes. At a high level, suppliers provide us with product images and information about dimensions, materials, etc., and we use them to create photorealistic 3D models and generate proprietary imagery. But creating […]

GCP – Realizing cloud value for a render platform at Wayfair — Part 2
In our previous post, we discussed various cost optimization strategies that we here at Wayfair identified to use on a render platform that we had recently moved to Google Cloud using a lift-and-shift migration strategy. In this post, we’ll shift our focus to how we applied those strategies to plan and execute the initiatives, and […]
Azure – General Availability: Isovalent Cilium Enterprise through Azure Marketplace
Isovalent Cilium Enterprise is now generally available through Azure Marketplace. Read More for the details.