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GCP – How geospatial services can help improve financial outcomes, customer experiences, and operational efficiency
There are few technologies that have become an essential part of everyday life as quickly as geospatial services. The same technology behind the digital maps that transformed the way we shop, commute, and travel, can also have a huge impact on business operations and outcomes. It can influence everything from logistics to location expansion planning […]

Azure – Public preview: Tiering capability for premium block blob storage
Tier data seamlessly within a premium blob account depending on access patterns to optimize costs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Workspace expands data privacy controls to Gmail and Calendar with client-side encryption
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the Google Workspace blog. We consistently hear from our customers that the privacy of their data is top of mind, which is why we’ve built state-of-the-art security and privacy-preserving technologies into our products — to keep customer data private and secure. We’ve put Google AI to work on […]

GCP – Track your Cloud Monitoring uptime checks in the Google Cloud mobile app
We are pleased to announce the availability of Google Cloud Monitoring uptime checks in the Google Cloud mobile app. The uptime check capability offered by Cloud Monitoring is a simple yet powerful observability tool to monitor an application’s availability and performance on URLs provided by customers. The primary purpose of an uptime check is to […]

GCP – Spring Cloud GCP 4.0 is out! Let’s upgrade the sample Bank of Anthos app!
We’re excited to announce that Spring Cloud GCP version 4.0 is now generally available! In this post, we’ll be describing what the new major version has to offer, and demonstrating the process of using the migration guide on one of our reference architectures, Bank of Anthos. What’s new? With this release, Spring Cloud GCP officially […]

GCP – Why you should migrate to network firewall policies from VPC Firewall rules
In the fall of 2022, we announced new policy constructs for Google Cloud Firewall, a scalable, cloud-first firewall service that helps secure traffic flow to and from workloads in Google Cloud, and whose distributed architecture enables simplified, granular control including micro-segmentation. Whereas legacy VPC firewall rules included network tags that were not governed by our […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: February 2023
Welcome to February’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to take a look at one of the most important issues our industry faces right now: securing the software supply chain. At Google Cloud, we’ve been heavily invested in creating a layered approach to software supply chain security, which I talk about in my column […]

GCP – Modernize healthcare delivery with ChromeOS
Emerging from a period of major transformation, healthcare organizations are innovating constantly to improve patient experiences and enhance clinician productivity, mobility and collaboration, while battling an ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, tight budgets, and staffing shortages. To address these needs, ChromeOS offers secure, easy to manage and sustainable devices that integrate with modern healthcare apps […]

Azure – General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports customer configurable maintenance windows
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now allows you to select a specific window for scheduling a maintenance event. You can use the maintenance window to specify, for example, when your PostgreSQL 10 cluster gets upgraded to PostgreSQL 11. You can set the maintenance window with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or using […]