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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account Metric Streams
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for cross-account Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can include metrics that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS region in a single Metric Stream. This helps to reduce the number […]
GCP – Accelerating the grocery pickup experience with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Craig Hutler, Digital Product Manager, Kroger. To better serve its customers, Kroger began working with Google Maps Platform to create the On My Way initiative, a process to streamline the curbside pickup experience and put food into customers’ hands faster. With an increase in customer demand for pickup, […]
GCP – A journey from App Engine to Cloud Run: Adopting containers and reducing infrastructure costs by 70 percent
Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from SAP about their application modernization journey towards a serverless application architecture with Cloud Run. SAP developers partnered with Google Cloud Professional Services to migrate App Engine workloads to Cloud Run in just three weeks by focusing on small but efficient changes to the application, achieving remarkable […]
GCP – Canary deployments using Kubernetes Gateway API, Flagger and Google Cloud Deploy
Canary deployment is an advanced technique used to test changes in a production environment by gradually rolling out the changes to a small subset of users before fully deploying them to the entire user base. This allows for real-world testing of the changes, and the ability to quickly roll back the changes in the event […]
GCP – [Infographic] Navigating secure digital transformation in financial services
Adopting cloud computing technologies and services presents financial services institutions with opportunities to address many forms of security risks in new, innovative, and more effective ways. However, firms often lack the tools required to map out their digital transformation journey in the context of security and risk governance. That’s why it is important for Chief […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022
Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Tribal Group events available to Azure Event Grid customers
You can now subscribe to events Tribal Group applications and automate your processes based on Tribal Group application state changes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Container insights support for AKS hybrid clusters
Container insights now supports AKS hybrid clusters Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Active Directory Connector for Arc-enabled SQL MI
Active Directory Connector (ADC) for Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance is now available to perform Active Directory authentication. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public preview announcements for January 2023
New features now available in Public Preview include the ability to build an end-to-end training pipeline with no-code, recover a deleted workspace, and identify root causes of pipeline failure. Read More for the details.