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GCP – How Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage digital assets more securely and efficiently
Managing digital asset transactions and their often-competing requirements to be secure and timely can be daunting. Human errors can lead to millions in assets being instantly lost, especially when managing your own encryption keys. This is where multi-party computation (MPC) can help reduce risk stemming from single points of compromise and facilitate instant, policy-compliant transactions. […]

GCP – L’Oreal enables a global developer workforce with secure cloud development environments
With many dramatic shifts in the world of retail over the past two decades — from the explosion of e-commerce to the COVID pandemic — digitalization is no longer just a strategic choice for companies in the retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, but a necessity for survival. In this blog, we discuss how […]

GCP – Looking back at Retail’s Big Show: Google at NRF 2023
Enabling retailers and brands to use technology to discover new opportunities for growth, innovation and productivity is one of our greatest passions here at Google Cloud. Every year, we look forward to the National Retail Federation (NRF) annual conference and expo, and Retail’s Big Show did not disappoint. To celebrate NRF 2023 being back in […]

GCP – Native image compilation – what’s new, and what’s next?
Native image compilation has been an emerging technology in the Java community for a number of years. In a sentence, it offers a smaller memory footprint and dramatically faster startup times which makes it especially well suited for Serverless use cases. Earlier in 2022, at I/O, we discussed the technology in more depth and how […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive adds timecode burn-in
You can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to add timecode visually into individual video outputs from a MediaLive channel. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ with two readable standbys for RDS PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports inbound replication from Amazon RDS Single-AZ database (DB) instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby to Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys. You can use this inbound replication to help migrate your existing Amazon RDS PostgreSQL deployments within minutes to Amazon RDS […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, 11.18
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 14.6, 13.9, 12.13, and 11.18. These releases contains product improvements and bug fixes made by the PostgreSQL community, along with Aurora-specific improvements. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you […]

AWS – Amazon Detective adds Amazon VPC Flow Logs visualizations for Amazon EKS workloads
Amazon Detective now adds visual summaries and analytics about your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) flow logs from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) workloads. This new capability visualizes all network traffic from your EKS workloads and allows you to quickly answer questions like “what ports or network services were in use by my EKS […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow announces 10 new connectors
Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 10 new data connectors for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The new connectors enable you to transfer your data from Asana, Delighted, Google Calendar, Intercom, JDBC, PayPal, Pendo, Smartsheet, Snapchat Ads, and WooCommerce. These new connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases such as data […]
Azure – Classic VM retirement: extending retirement date to September 1st 2023
Extended migration period for your IaaS VMs from Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager. Please complete the migration by 1 September 2023. Read More for the details.