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GCP – BBC: Keeping up with a busy news day with an end-to-end serverless architecture
Editor’s note: Today’s post is from Neil Craig at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom. Neil is part of the BBC’s Digital Distribution team, which is responsible for building the services such as the public-facing www bbc.co.uk and .com websites and ensuring they are able to scale and operate […]

GCP – Black History Month: Celebrating the success of Black founders with Google Cloud: Valence Discovery
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 Valence Discovery co-founder Therence Bois who’s […]

GCP – Demystifying BigQuery BI Engine
BigQuery BI Engine is a fast, in-memory analysis system for BigQuery currently processing over 2 billion queries per month and growing. BigQuery has its roots in Google’s Dremel system and is a data warehouse built with scalability as a goal. On the other hand BI Engine was envisioned with data analysts in mind and focuses […]

GCP – Advancing cancer research with public imaging datasets from the National Cancer Institute Imaging Data Commons
Medical imaging offers remarkable opportunities in research for advancing our understanding of cancer, discovering new non-invasive methods for its detection, and improving overall patient care. Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), in particular, have been key in unlocking our ability to use this imaging data as part of cancer research. Development of AI-powered research approaches, however, […]

GCP – Scaling Microservices Applications: From Open Source to Redis Enterprise on Google Cloud
Redis excels as a fast caching solution or in-memory database, and is commonly utilized by startups as a self-managed open source technology. But what happens when you eventually outgrow open source limitations and the in-house expertise required to manage OSS deployments? How do you scale without business disruption or data loss? Read on to discover […]

Azure – Azure Web PubSub Premium tier reaches General Availability
New plan offers greater resiliency, scalability, and flexibility – helping you add real-time two-way communication to your web and mobile apps. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect outbound campaign capabilities are now generally available in the Canada (Central) AWS Region
Amazon Connect now supports outbound campaigns in the Canada (Central) AWS region, making it easy to proactively communicate across voice, SMS, and email for use cases such as delivery notifications, marketing promotions, appointment reminders, or debt collection. Communication capabilities include features to support compliance of local regulations such as CRTC through point-of-dial checks and calling […]

AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports enabling SAML during domain creation
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports enabling Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards during domain creation. SAML authentication for OpenSearch Dashboards enables users to integrate directly with identity providers (IDPs) such as Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, Auth0, Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and Azure Active Directory. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in Azure for US Government regions
Allows you to enable secure boot, vTPM, virtualization-based security, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration, providing additional layers of defense against sophisticated threats. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Inspector is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Inspector is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now continuously monitor your AWS workloads including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, container images in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR), and AWS Lambda functions for software vulnerabilities in these additional regions. Read More for the details.