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GCP – RAD Lab AlphaFold module for researchers
Understanding protein geometries is essential to understanding a protein’s function, and thus essential to a range of disruptive research projects, from creating more sustainable materials to developing more effective treatments to diseases. For this reason, the “protein-folding problem” ranked for decades among biological science’s grand challenges—until Google’s DeepMind developed AlphaFold. Widely hailed as a breakthrough […]
GCP – Security Roundup – stories and launches from the second half of 2022 (Q3 and Q4)
Safeguarding your data needs a sure-fire game plan and Google Cloud continues to constantly update our products and services to help you achieve that. In the third installment of this series, let’s explore a few key launches from Google Cloud Security during the second half of 2022. Want to check out the previous posts? Here […]
GCP – Putting partners first in 2023
Google Cloud is a partner-first company, and in 2022 our ecosystem of partners delivered incredible innovation and value to customers, like migrating entire data centers to the cloud, modernizing businesses’ data strategies, solving industry-specific challenges, and more. As we kick off a new year, the opportunity for our partners to drive digital transformation will be […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads is now available for up to 2X faster queries on Amazon RDS for MariaDB
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports Optimized Reads for up to 2X faster query processing compared to previous generation instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by the MariaDB server on the NVMe SSD-based block-level instance storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation enhances Fn::FindInMap language extension to support default values and additional intrinsic functions
Today, AWS CloudFormation updates the language extension transform to support default values and additional intrinsic functions in Fn::FindInMap. Customers can use these features to minimize the size of their CloudFormation templates, and improve their readability. The language transform extends CloudFormation template language with functions such as Fn::Length, Fn::JsonToString, and more. Customers can modularize their templates […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Pinpoint Singapore Sender ID registration workflow
Today Amazon Pinpoint is launching a new web form experience in the Amazon Pinpoint console to help make it easier for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon SNS customers to register SMS Sender IDs in Singapore. Customers are no longer required to create a support ticket to register Sender IDs for Singapore. A Sender ID is an […]
AWS – AWS announces changes to AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles permissions
AWS announces the retirement of IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders and is replacing them with fine-grained service specific actions. This launch gives AWS customers more control over access to Billing, Cost Management, and Account services. These new permissions will also provide a single […]
AWS – AWS WAF is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Starting today, AWS WAF is available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) region. This is the second region where AWS WAF is available in the Middle East, joining the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) Region and giving customers more choice and flexibility. Read More for the details.
GCP – Tips to get the most out of Google Cloud Documentation
As a Google Cloud practitioner, you typically spend a lot of time in the documentation pages to read up on the guides, commands, tutorials and more. The documentation team has introduced several features over the years to make it easier to be more productive while working with Google Cloud documentation. A few of these tips […]
GCP – Why retailers choose to build on Kubernetes
Retail organizations constantly face financial pressure to increase sales while maintaining profit margins. Digital commerce creates new opportunities and a more competitive landscape for retailers by allowing them to reach a global customer base online, but it also exposes them to competition from larger online retailers. To be successful in this environment, retailers must not […]