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GCP – Introducing Google Workspace security guidance to address Canadian data security requirements
As offices have become more connected, Google’s trusted cloud services, including Google Workspace, have fostered collaborative work environments around the world. The Government of Canada (GC) has set standards for government organizations utilizing cloud services. The newly-released Google Workspacesecurity guidance can help government agencies reach compliance by providing steps they can follow to introduce Google […]
GCP – How Google Cloud is preparing for NIS2 and protecting Europe from cyber threats
Online data theft is a significant risk for organizations around the world and in Europe. European businesses stand to lose roughly 10 terabytes of data each month to cyber theft, according to a July 2022 report from the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). Meanwhile, cyberattacks cost European businesses and consumers an estimated €180 billion […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g Instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g instances and Amazon EC2 R7g instances. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based instances. Compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, they offer up to 2x better floating-point performance, up to 2x faster crypto […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports tcn extension
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the tcn extension which provides a trigger function that allows you to asynchronously notify listeners of changes to a table. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon VPC Announces General Availability of Resource Map in AWS Management Console
Amazon VPC announces general availability of Resource Map, a tool that displays all your VPC resources and their connections in a visual format on a single page, providing you a clear understanding of your VPC architecture. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elastic Container Service improves accuracy of Service Load Balancing
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) has improved the accuracy of Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) for Amazon ECS services. Load balancing on Amazon ECS now more accurately routes traffic to running tasks as tasks will be deregistered from the ELB before they enter a stopped state. Furthermore, with these improvements, Amazon ECS also helps your services […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) for U.S. Department of Defense customers
Today, AWS announces the availability of AWS Modular Data Center (MDC) to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). AWS MDC makes it easy for DoD agencies to deploy modular data centers managed by AWS in infrastructure-limited locations. AWS MDC is available as a self-contained modular data center unit: an environmentally controlled physical enclosure that can […]
GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Di Mayze, calling creative brains to draw stories from data
Editor’s note: This is the first blog in a series called Meet the Google Cloud Data Champions, a series celebrating the people behind data and AI-driven transformations. Each blog features a champion’s career journey, lessons learned, advice they would give other leaders, and more. This story features Di Mayze, Global Head of Data and AI […]
GCP – Grow and scale your startup with Google Cloud
At Google Cloud, we understand how important it is for startups to get holistic technical support so that you can build and scale your businesses to the next level. The Google Cloud Technical Guides for Startups Series helps you do this and more with its Start, Build and Grow multi-series. In the Start and Build […]
GCP – Planning an IPv6 network on Google Cloud
Google Cloud supports a wide range of IPv6 capabilities. When using IPv6 addressing, Google Cloud gives you the choice of using Global Unicast Addresses (GUA) for external connectivity or Unique Local Addresses (ULA) for private connectivity. In a previous blog, we discussed when and how to use ULA addressing for private communication in Google Cloud. […]