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GCP – Quickly troubleshoot application errors with Error Reporting
Are you familiar with the four golden signals of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): latency, traffic, errors, and saturation? Whether you’re a developer or an operator, you’ve likely been responsible for collecting, storing, or analyzing the data associated with these concepts. Much of this data is captured in application and infrastructure logs, which provide a rich […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: February 2022
It’s a short month, but there’s still many important security updates to discuss. Below, I’ll recap the latest efforts from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team such as our second Threat Horizons Report, and highlight new capabilities from our cloud security product teams who have been working to deliver new controls, security solutions and more to […]
GCP – USAA and Google Cloud: modernizing insurance operations with machine learning
Delivering an automated solution capable of going from images of vehicle damage to actual car part repair/replace predictions has been an elusive dream for many auto insurance carriers. Such a solution could not only streamline the repair process, but also increase auditability of repairs and improve overall cost efficiency. In keeping with its reputation for […]
GCP – Showing the speed of serverless through hackathon solutions
Testing the theory that serverless platforms accelerate bringing new ideas to market, we hosted the inaugural Google Cloud Easy as Pie Serverless Hackathon, backed by a $20,000 prize pool. The response was overwhelming: More than 1,500 developers from 70 countries signed up and submitted nearly 100 projects solving issues in health, education, gaming, data, finance, […]
GCP – Kubernetes: Ready for a starring role at the movies, and in your architecture?
Customers are using Kubernetes as the core technology for the transformation cloud era and for many, cloud-native has become synonymous with container-native. Kubernetes builds on 15 years of running Google’s containerized workloads and the important contributions from the open source community. Inspired by Google’s internal cluster management system, Borg, Kubernetes makes everything associated with deploying […]
GCP – Accelerate Cloud EDA workflows with NetApp and Google Cloud
The semiconductor industry has long sought to do more in fixed release windows; however, new factors including the move to seven, five, and three nanometer (nm) process nodes has driven the scale of compute and data required to a new extreme. Rather than choosing to build and maintain ever-larger data centers to meet that demand, […]
AWS – AWS enhances Chinese Yuan payments experience for China based customers.
AWS now further enhances the Chinese yuan payments experience for payment of invoices from Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS Inc.”). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon GameLift announces three updates to FlexMatch to provide greater flexibility
We are excited to announce three updates to Amazon GameLift’s FlexMatch, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) managed service. GameLift FlexMatch launched in 2017 as a feature that uses a powerful matchmaking algorithm and flexible developer-defined rules to create high-quality matches at AWS scale. Since it’s inception, game companies from all over the world such as […]
AWS – AWS QnABot adds support for Genesys Cloud contact center, client filters and sensitive information log redaction
AWS Solutions has updated the AWS QnABot, an open source, multi-channel, multi-language conversational chatbot built on Amazon Lex, that responds to your customer’s questions, answers, and feedback. Without programming, the AWS QnABot solution allows customers to quickly deploy self-service conversational AI on multiple channels including their contact centers, web sites, social media channels, SMS text […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9
Benefit from new features and enhancements in OpenShift release 4.9. Read More for the details.