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GCP – Announcing higher VM- to-internet throughput for several Compute Engine families
We are excited to announce the General Availability of higher egress bandwidth for VM-to-internet traffic on the Compute Engine N2, N2D C2D and M3 families, as part of per VM Tier_1 networking performance. With this enhancement, VMs in these families that have enabled per VM Tier_1 networking performance have a higher VM-to-internet egress limit — […]

GCP – Helping secure global collaboration at the first federally regulated crypto bank
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Anchorage Digital, a Web3 company with offerings designed for institutions to participate in crypto directly and for those looking to integrate crypto into their own products and services. Launched in San Francisco in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that makes crypto accessible to institutions such as […]

GCP – Verify POST endpoint availability with Uptime Checks
An unreliable app is no fun to use. Ensuring that users experience high levels of availability, consistency, and correctness can go a long way in establishing user trust and positive business outcomes. Over time, as new features are added to applications and modifications made to underlying web services, the ability to comprehensively monitor at the […]

GCP – Extending Cloud Code with custom templates
Cloud Code is a set of IDE plugins for popular IDEs that make it easier to create, deploy and integrate applications with Google Cloud. Cloud Code provides an excellent extension mechanism through custom templates. In this post, I show you how you can create and use your own custom templates to add some features beyond […]

GCP – Early-bird registration for Google Cloud Next ‘23 is open now
San Francisco, here we come. Starting today, you can now register at the Early Bird rate of $899 USD* for Google Cloud Next ‘23, taking place in person, August 29-31, 2023. This year’s Next conference comes at an exciting time. The emergence of generative AI is a transformational opportunity that some say may be as […]

AWS – AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Region. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon DynamoDB tables, or other […]

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty RDS Protection for Amazon Aurora is now generally available
Amazon GuardDuty broadens threat detection coverage to help you protect your data residing in Amazon Aurora databases. GuardDuty RDS Protection is designed to profile and monitor access activity to Aurora databases in your AWS account without impacting database performance. Using tailored machine learning models and integrated threat intelligence, GuardDuty can detect potential threats such as […]

AWS – AWS Chatbot now available in Microsoft Teams
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams that enables AWS customers to securely monitor their AWS resources, and respond to operation events in their AWS infrastructure from Microsoft Teams channels where their entire team can quickly review, collaboratively diagnose, and securely run common DevOps commands. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Load Testing support for JMeter 5.5
Azure Load Testing now uses Apache JMeter version 5.5 for running load tests. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-March 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-March 2023 Read More for the details.