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AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports S3 data validation
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports validation to ensure that data is migrated accurately to S3. Read More for the details.

GCP – Join us at RSA Conference to transform cybersecurity with frontline intelligence and cloud innovation
The promise of digital transformation is being challenged by the increasingly disruptive threat landscape. More sophisticated and capable adversaries have proliferated as nation-states pivot from cyber-espionage to compromise of private industry for financial gain. Their tactics shift and evolve rapidly as workloads and workforces become distributed and enterprises’ attack surface grows. And the security talent […]

Azure – Public preview: Listener TLS certificates management available in the Azure portal
You can now manage the TLS certificates associated with Listeners through Azure portal. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs adds support for new Amazon VPC Flow Logs metadata
Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports ingesting enriched metadata introduced in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) flow logs as part of versions 3 to 5 additional to the default fields. This launch includes metadata fields that provide more insights about the network interface, traffic type, and the path of egress traffic to the destination. Read […]

GCP – BigQuery under the hood: Behind the serverless storage and query optimizations that supercharge performance
Customers love the way BigQuery makes it easy for them to do hard things — from BigQuery Machine Learning (BQML) SQL turning data analysts into data scientists, to rich text analytics using the SEARCH function that unlocks ad-hoc text searches on unstructured data. A key reason for BigQuery’s ease of use is its underlying serverless […]

AWS – AWS CodeBuild now supports a small GPU machine type
AWS CodeBuild’s support for GPU-based workloads now run on an additional 4vCPU 1GPU machine type suited for less-resource intensive workloads. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing higher VM- to-internet throughput for several Compute Engine families
We are excited to announce the General Availability of higher egress bandwidth for VM-to-internet traffic on the Compute Engine N2, N2D C2D and M3 families, as part of per VM Tier_1 networking performance. With this enhancement, VMs in these families that have enabled per VM Tier_1 networking performance have a higher VM-to-internet egress limit — […]

GCP – Helping secure global collaboration at the first federally regulated crypto bank
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Anchorage Digital, a Web3 company with offerings designed for institutions to participate in crypto directly and for those looking to integrate crypto into their own products and services. Launched in San Francisco in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that makes crypto accessible to institutions such as […]

GCP – Verify POST endpoint availability with Uptime Checks
An unreliable app is no fun to use. Ensuring that users experience high levels of availability, consistency, and correctness can go a long way in establishing user trust and positive business outcomes. Over time, as new features are added to applications and modifications made to underlying web services, the ability to comprehensively monitor at the […]
GCP – Extending Cloud Code with custom templates
Cloud Code is a set of IDE plugins for popular IDEs that make it easier to create, deploy and integrate applications with Google Cloud. Cloud Code provides an excellent extension mechanism through custom templates. In this post, I show you how you can create and use your own custom templates to add some features beyond […]