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GCP – Google Workspace expands data privacy controls to Gmail and Calendar with client-side encryption
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the Google Workspace blog. We consistently hear from our customers that the privacy of their data is top of mind, which is why we’ve built state-of-the-art security and privacy-preserving technologies into our products — to keep customer data private and secure. We’ve put Google AI to work on […]

GCP – Track your Cloud Monitoring uptime checks in the Google Cloud mobile app
We are pleased to announce the availability of Google Cloud Monitoring uptime checks in the Google Cloud mobile app. The uptime check capability offered by Cloud Monitoring is a simple yet powerful observability tool to monitor an application’s availability and performance on URLs provided by customers. The primary purpose of an uptime check is to […]

GCP – Spring Cloud GCP 4.0 is out! Let’s upgrade the sample Bank of Anthos app!
We’re excited to announce that Spring Cloud GCP version 4.0 is now generally available! In this post, we’ll be describing what the new major version has to offer, and demonstrating the process of using the migration guide on one of our reference architectures, Bank of Anthos. What’s new? With this release, Spring Cloud GCP officially […]

GCP – Why you should migrate to network firewall policies from VPC Firewall rules
In the fall of 2022, we announced new policy constructs for Google Cloud Firewall, a scalable, cloud-first firewall service that helps secure traffic flow to and from workloads in Google Cloud, and whose distributed architecture enables simplified, granular control including micro-segmentation. Whereas legacy VPC firewall rules included network tags that were not governed by our […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: February 2023
Welcome to February’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to take a look at one of the most important issues our industry faces right now: securing the software supply chain. At Google Cloud, we’ve been heavily invested in creating a layered approach to software supply chain security, which I talk about in my column […]

GCP – Modernize healthcare delivery with ChromeOS
Emerging from a period of major transformation, healthcare organizations are innovating constantly to improve patient experiences and enhance clinician productivity, mobility and collaboration, while battling an ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats, tight budgets, and staffing shortages. To address these needs, ChromeOS offers secure, easy to manage and sustainable devices that integrate with modern healthcare apps […]

Azure – General availability: Scale improvements and metrics enhancements on Azure’s regional WAF
Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall (WAF) running on Application Gateway now supports improved scale limits, including HTTP listener count, as well as additional metrics dimensions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now supports customer configurable maintenance windows
Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now allows you to select a specific window for scheduling a maintenance event. You can use the maintenance window to specify, for example, when your PostgreSQL 10 cluster gets upgraded to PostgreSQL 11. You can set the maintenance window with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or using […]

AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports the ability to disassociate and delete products in one-action
AWS Service Catalog customers can now disassociate and delete their AWS Service Catalog products in one-action, making it easier to update and manage their catalog of AWS resources. Read More for the details.
AWS – SageMaker Autopilot now offers the ability to select algorithms while launching a machine learning training experiment
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, a low-code machine learning (ML) service which automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, now supports selection of underlying training algorithms while creating an Autopilot experiment. The ability to select algorithms provides you the flexibility to customize your AutoML journey and complete experiments much faster. Read […]