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GCP – Making work more accessible with Chrome and ChromeOS
Did you know that 1 in 6 people, roughly 16% of the world’s population, has some form of a disability? At Google, we want to make sure we’re building for everyone, all 8 billion people, which means making our products as inclusive as possible. This ties directly to our mission of organizing the world’s information […]
Azure – Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge provides you a new way of upgrading VM instances in a Virtual Machine Scale Set to the latest scale set model. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Device Farm announces VPC integration for Private Devices
AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that provides web and mobile developers with desktop browsers and real mobile devices so that they can improve the quality of their apps. With today’s launch, we are adding support for VPC connectivity to Private Devices, providing a simple way to connect with endpoints that are accessible […]
GCP – How to get started with Google Cloud: Introducing our new learning hub and learning benefits for Innovators
In today’s rapidly changing world of AI, digital transformation, and a myriad of migrations, it’s more important than ever to stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and trends. Continuing to grow your technical knowledge and skills is important not only to stay relevant in an ever changing job market, but to future-proof your career, whether […]
GCP – Backup for GKE – Part 2 – backup & restore plan
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a powerful tool for running containerized applications. But what happens if your GKE cluster crashes? Or if your application data is corrupted? Backup for GKE is a new feature that can help you protect your GKE clusters and applications. In part two of this series, we will demonstrate how to […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition launches eye gaze direction detection in Face APIs
Today, AWS announced the general availability of eye gaze direction detection in Rekognition’s Face APIs to support accessibility and safety, validate photos, and help identify where users focus on the screen. The new EyeDirection attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs predicts a person’s eye gaze direction yaw (rotation on vertical axis) and pitch […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 67 – May 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error cache control directives
Amazon CloudFront announces support for stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error cache control directives, which can improve performance and availability. The stale-while-revalidate directive instructs CloudFront to immediately deliver stale responses to users while it revalidates caches in the background. The stale-if-error directive defines how long CloudFront should reuse stale responses if there’s an error during revalidation, which provides […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Distributor now supports the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager that allows you to install and update software on your instances with version control, now allows you to install the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent directly from Distributor without having to create or maintain any software packages. You can easily deploy the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor agent across your fleet […]
GCP – Opening the doors to accessibility with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: In recognition of Global Accessibility Awareness Day on Thursday, May, 18, today’s post comes from Brandon Winfield, CEO & Co-Founder, iAccess Life. iAccess Life uses the power of Google Maps Platform to make spaces and places more accessible for people with disabilities. When I was 14, I was injured in a motocross accident […]