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AWS – Amazon ECS now supports deletion of inactive task definition revisions
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to delete inactive task definition revisions programmatically or via the Amazon ECS console. With this new capability, customers can permanently delete task definition revisions that are no longer needed or contain undesirable configurations, simplifying their resource management and improving security posture. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you monitor internet availability and performance metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and application end users. Read More for the details.
GCP – AlloyDB for PostgreSQL goes global with sixteen new regions
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, our PostgreSQL-compatible database service for demanding relational database workloads, is now available in 16 new regions across the globe. AlloyDB combines PostgreSQL compatibility with Google infrastructure to offer superior scale, availability and performance. In our performance tests, AlloyDB is more than four times faster for transactional workloads, and up to 100 times […]
GCP – Snap partners with Google Cloud to upskill teams around the globe
Snap inc., the developer of the Snapchat platform, has become a global leader in the social media industry. Snap runs its business on Google Cloud, and relies on Premium Support to optimize its cloud business imperatives. Snap sought new ways to extract business value from their cloud data, so turned to their assigned Google Technical […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation extends Data Filters to all regions for supported services
AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it simple to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secure repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different […]
GCP – Salk Institute leverages Google Cloud for brain research—and launches their transformation to the cloud
Research in the biological sciences has become increasingly data intensive, with vast datasets now routinely generated by genome sequencing, gene expression profiling, advanced microscopy, video imaging, and other high-throughput experimental techniques. These datasets have proven to be valuable in driving major scientific breakthroughs, but researchers face substantial challenges in keeping up with the storage, transfer, […]
GCP – Reimagining Radio Access Networks with Google Cloud
For the past decade, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have been busy transforming their mobile network architecture, and the Radio Access Network (RAN) is the final frontier. Today at Mobile World Congress 2023 Barcelona, we announced that we can now run the radio access network functions as software on Google Distributed Cloud Edge, providing CSPs with […]
GCP – Introducing Telecom Subscriber Insights: Helping CSPs grow business with AI-driven digitization and personalization
Communication Service providers (CSPs) are facing a new dynamic where they have a digitally savvy customer base and market competition is higher than ever before. Understanding customers and being able to present them with relevant products and services in a contextual manner has become the focus of CSPs. Digitization and hyper-personalization will be powering the […]
GCP – Introducing Telecom Network Automation: Unlock 5G cloud-native automation with Google Cloud
Building and managing scalable 5G networks can be complex, especially with legacy automation approaches. Simply containerizing network functions and running them on centralized or edge clouds does not maximize the cost savings and operational efficiencies promised by the cloud. Over the last two years, Communication Service Providers (CSPs) have approached Google Cloud looking for an […]
GCP – Simplifying cloud-native network functions deployments with native Kubernetes networking and Network Function Optimizer
Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are modernizing their networks, leveraging cloud operating models and software components delivered as cloud-native network functions (CNFs). The move towards cloud-native principles in the telecommunications industry is firmly anchored in mobile industry 5G standards, authored by the The Mobile Broadband Standard Partnership Project (called 3GPP), which mandate cloud-native principles. As the […]