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AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Transfer Family is available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces – Now Generally Available
Ready to fast-track application refactoring? AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the new starting point for incremental app refactoring. Using Refactor Spaces, customers focus on refactoring their applications, and not the creation and management of the underlying infrastructure that makes refactoring possible. Refactor Spaces orchestrates AWS services across multiple accounts to create a refactor environment […]
AWS – AWS Organizations console now lets users centrally manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
Today, we are enhancing the AWS Organizations console to enable you to centrally view and update the alternate contacts for your AWS accounts. To ensure that you receive important notifications about your AWS accounts, we previously released the Accounts SDK that enabled you to programmatically manage billing, operations, and security contacts for accounts in your organization. With this […]
GCP – How a zero trust approach protects governments and constituents against fraud
With the rise in digital services, government programs that distribute money to constituents are facing serious identity fraud challenges. In 2020, the massive increase in available benefits attracted significant fraudulent activity–leading to billions of misdirected funds, such as $6 billion in alleged losses to federal healthcare programs1. Fraudsters use stolen identities to file false tax […]
GCP – SoFi Stadium powers the return of live entertainment with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Engineers from SoFi Stadium, Google Cloud, and Deloitte built a fan-ready Personal Concierge app that uses advanced analytics to tailor game-day experiences for every visitor. SoFi’s 10-year partnership with Google Cloud not only pumps up the fans. Advanced analytics also enable stadium employees to securely store, analyze, and action analytics data, and seamlessly collaborate […]
GCP – Managed Istio-based service mesh on our managed GKE clusters: Anthos Service Mesh comes to GKE Autopilot
We launched GKE Autopilot last year and since then, we’ve been hard at work adding additional functionality to deliver a fully featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce Anthos Service Mesh availability on GKE Autopilot Clusters. (Not familiar with GKE Autopilot or Anthos Service Mesh yet? Check out the Autopilot breakout session […]
GCP – How tech companies and startups get to market faster with containers on Google Cloud
Every tech company and growing startup faces pressure to make efficient use of technical talent. Increasingly, this means determining if and how the cloud can help this talent focus on things like product development instead of IT overhead. These challenges are the starting place for our new whitepaper “The future of infrastructure will be containerized,” […]
GCP – How Wayfair says yes with BigQuery—without breaking the bank
Editor’s note: Home-goods and furniture giant Wayfair first partnered up with Google Cloud to transform and scale its storefront—work that proved its value many times over during the unprecedented surge in ecommerce traffic during 2020. Today, we hear how BigQuery’s performance and cost optimization have transformed the company’s internal analytics to create an environment of […]
GCP – Unified data and ML: 5 ways to use BigQuery and Vertex AI together
Are you storing your data in BigQuery and interested in using that data to train and deploy models? Or maybe you’re already building ML workflows in Vertex AI, but looking to do more complex analysis of your model’s predictions? In this post, we’ll show you five integrations between Vertex AI and BigQuery, so you can […]
AWS – AWS App Runner adds support for Amazon VPC
AWS App Runner services can now communicate with other applications hosted in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). You can now connect you App Runner services to databases in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), to Redis caches in Amazon ElastiCache, or to message queues in Amazon MQ. You can also connect your services […]