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GCP – Architecting for database encryption on Google Cloud
Encryption and data protection is a major requirement for customers moving their workloads to the cloud. To meet this requirement, organizations often invest a great deal of time in protecting sensitive data in cloud-based databases. This is driven mostly by government regulations, compliance, and organizations’ security requirements to have data protected at rest. As Customer […]
GCP – Announcing Pub/Sub metrics dashboards for improved observability
Pub/Sub offers a rich set of metrics for resource and usage monitoring. Previously, these metrics were like buried treasure: they were useful to understand Pub/Sub usage, but you had to dig around to find them. Today, we are announcing out-of-the-box Pub/Sub metrics dashboards that are accessible with one click from the Topics and Subscriptions pages […]
GCP – Paccurate reduces shipping costs and minimizes carbon emissions with the help of Google Cloud
Rising shipping costs are preventing retailers from delivering basic items people need at an affordable price. Although the retail industry has spent decades trying to bring new efficiencies to shipping, higher fuel costs and supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are worsening the challenge. AtPaccurate, we believe smarter packing is key to creating […]
GCP – GitOps your service orchestrations
GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, an application is not […]
GCP – A new clean energy purchasing model to drive decarbonization
When Google set out to achieve 24/7 carbon-free energy (CFE) in our operations by 2030, we committed to share insights and lessons that could help others move in the same direction. In 2021 we published a detailed methodology for 24/7 CFE, and earlier this year we released a roadmap for policymakers to enable 24/7 CFE […]
GCP – Sign up for the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge
Are you ready to take your cloud skills to new heights? We’re excited to announce the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge, created in partnership with The Drone Racing League (DRL) and taking place at Next ‘22 to usher in the new era of tech-driven sports. Using DRL race data and Google Cloud analytics tools, developers […]
AWS – AWS PrivateLink announces enhanced tagging capability for service owners
You can now use tags to better track and manage your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity solution that enables customers to connect to other services hosted on AWS using a secure and scalable method while keeping network traffic private. Read More for the details.
AWS – Local gateway ingress routing for AWS Outposts rack is now available
You can now create Outposts rack local gateway (LGW) inbound routes to redirect incoming traffic to an elastic network interface (ENI) attached to an Amazon EC2 instance before the traffic reaches your enterprise workloads running on your Outpost. The EC2 instance may run virtual network appliance software to inspect, modify, or filter network traffic before relaying […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports patching newer versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Patch Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now helps you automate patch deployments for instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) versions 15.2, 15.3, and 15.4, Oracle Linux versions 8.4 and 8.5, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 8.6. Patch Manager helps you automate the process of patching nodes with both security related […]
AWS – FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan registration now open
We are excited to announce that registration for the FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP) is now open. FreeRTOS is a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS EMP subscriptions allow embedded developers to receive critical bug fixes and security patches on their chosen FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) version for up to 10 years beyond the […]