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GCP – 8 ways to cut costs and drive profits using data and AI
We are increasingly seeing one question arise in virtually every customer conversation: How can the organization save costs and drive new revenue streams? Everyone would love a crystal ball, but what you may not realize is that you already have one. It’s in your data. By leveraging Data Cloud and AI solutions, you can put […]
GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud: Innovare
Editor’s note: February is Black History Month—a time for us to come together to celebrate the diverse identities and perspectives that make up the Black experience. Over the next few weeks, we will highlight Black-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. This feature highlights Innovare co-founder Nicholas Freeman who, together […]
GCP – ChromeOS with Arreya keeps HOTWORX sauna workouts running 24/7
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Robyn Powell, Vice President of IT for HOTWORX, a global company developing virtually instructed, infrared sauna workouts. HOTWORX, which has more than 400 locations across the United States and around the world, chose ChromeOS and Chromeboxes to power digital screens and workout videos in every sauna. For a brand […]
GCP – Optimizing the retail experience and developing customer loyalty with advanced analytics
E-commerce transformation has moved at an astounding pace over the last decade. Retailers of all sizes have grappled with immense changes, as new technologies reinvent what’s possible and what consumers have come to expect from the shopping experience. Retailers that embrace evolving shopper expectations by putting customers at the center of everything they do are […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now available in 4 additional regions
The AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is now generally available in 4 new regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Europe (Milan), China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD). With this launch, the AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for MemoryDB is now available in all regions where MemoryDB […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now available in all regions
The AWS Trusted Advisor fault tolerance check for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is now generally available in 14 additional regions: AWS GovCloud (US-West), AWS GovCloud (US-East), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Milan), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), China (Beijing, […]
AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector(AFD) launched AFD-Lists to optimize fraud prevention strategies
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announces the launch of AFD Lists feature. Lists allows you to reference a set of values in your AFD rules. Fraud risk teams commonly maintain lists of attributes, such as IP, email address, and devices fingerprints to allow/deny transaction as part of their fraud prevention and detection strategy. With Lists, an […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts now support automated maintenance on rare degradation
You now have the automated host maintenance feature available for your Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts. With automated host maintenance, in the rare event of degradation of a dedicated host, AWS will automatically reboot the EC2 instances running on it onto a newly allocated dedicated host during a scheduled maintenance event, to reduce your application’s downtime […]
AWS – Announcing increased AWS Resource Access Manager default quota values
AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) now supports higher default quotas to help you scale your resource sharing. AWS RAM helps you securely share your resources across AWS accounts, within your organization or organizational units (OUs), and with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and users for supported resource types. For each AWS Region […]
AWS – Database Activity Streams now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Database Activity Streams (DAS) now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server to provide a near real-time stream of database activities for auditing and compliance purposes. You can integrate DAS with your monitoring tools in order to monitor and set alarms for auditing the database activity. You can also connect Amazon Kinesis Data Stream to Amazon […]