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GCP – Effective strategies to closing the data-value gap
We have been going through a phenomenal amount of technological advances in the space of big data and cloud, driven by the organizations’ needs to get value out of data. It’s a given that data drives innovation, but business needs are changing more rapidly than processes can accommodate, resulting in a widening gap between data […]

GCP – How B2B digital commerce will unfold in 2023
Editor’s note: Google Cloud partner commercetools shares how modern technologies like composable commerce, cloud-native infrastructure and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) will lead the way in business-to-business (B2B) digital commerce this year. Digital commerce in B2B has been predicted as the next big thing for years; yet, at the start of COVID-19, 60% of B2B companies […]

GCP – Bigtable Monitoring: Client-side Metrics
Cloud Bigtable is a NoSQL database service that can achieve single-digit millisecond latency for reads and writes. However, if you’re developing applications with complex infrastructure, global customers and millions of interactions, there is potential for unexpected latency. Latency in large scale systems can cause missed business opportunities, poor customer experiences, and disrupted data pipelines. Because […]

GCP – New research: Search abandonment continues to vex retailers worldwide
Search abandonment—when a shopper searches for a product on a retailer’s website but doesn’t find what they are looking for—costs retailers more than $2 trillion annually globally1, and more than $234 billion in the United States alone. Today, we’re releasing new data about the impact of search abandonment, including its role in brand loyalty and […]

GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Turin Italy is now open
We are excited to announce the opening of our new cloud region in Turin, Italy. This new region joins the recently opened Google Cloud region in Milan to provide highly available and sustainable cloud services with data sovereignty and residency functionality to meet the needs of the Italian economy. It also joins 35 other Google […]

GCP – Announcing Google Cloud’s new Digital Sovereignty Explorer
Digital sovereignty continues to be a top priority for organizations working to advance or begin their digital transformation efforts. Over the past few years, Google Cloud has worked extensively with customers, partners, policy makers and governments around the world to understand evolving sovereignty requirements. In Europe, this has resulted in our “Cloud. On Europe’s Terms” […]

AWS – AWS Batch launches support for configurable Ephemeral Storage on AWS Fargate
AWS Batch now enables you to configure ephemeral storage up to 200 GiB in size on AWS Fargate type jobs. This means that you can expand the available ephemeral storage beyond the default value of 20 GiB for your jobs when using Fargate as the compute platform on AWS Batch. With this launch, you no […]

AWS – Amazon WorkDocs announces Search Resources API
Amazon WorkDocs now offers Search Resources API for builders to programmatically search files and folders that you have permissions for. The new Search Resources API provides keyword search and a wide array of search result filtering capabilities. Customers can apply filters such as content type, last modified date range, file owner, and labels. The new […]

AWS – Amazon S3 Event Notifications now supports Amazon EventBridge in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
You can now use Amazon S3 Event Notifications with Amazon EventBridge in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions to build, scale, and deploy event-driven applications based on changes to the data you store in Amazon S3. This makes it easier to act on new data in Amazon S3, build multiple applications that react to object changes […]
AWS – Amazon ECS provides contextual failure reasons for troubleshooting task launches with capacity providers
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now provides contextual failure reasons that make it easier to troubleshoot task launch failures when customers use capacity providers for auto scaling the compute capacity in their cluster. Read More for the details.