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Azure – Generally Available: Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 NVMe-enabled VM sizes
The new NVMe-enabled VM sizes of the Ebsv5 and Ebdsv5 VM offer the highest remote storage IOPS and throughput performance of any Azure VMs to date. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application launches push notifications
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of of Push Notifications for the AWS Console Mobile Application. You can now use AWS User Notifications to create actionable push notifications from AWS services, such as CloudWatch, to be delivered to your mobile device when a resource requires your attention. You can then receive push […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra now supports content-based query suggestions
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Phoenix
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the EdgeConnex PHX01 data center in Phoenix, Arizona. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for […]
GCP – Learn about our updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android
We’re always looking for ways to improve your Google Maps Platform development experience on Android, so we’ve been working on an updated renderer for the Maps SDK for Android to give you access to more features and better performance. Thanks to those developers who opted in to use our updated renderer back in October 2021. […]
GCP – 3 new ways to authorize users to your private workloads on Cloud Run
More and more organizations are building applications on Cloud Run, a fully managed compute platform that lets you run containerized applications on top of Google’s infrastructure. Think web applications, real-time dashboards, APIs, microservices, batch data processing, testing and monitoring tools, data science inference models, and more. Today, we’re excited to announce that it’s easier than […]
GCP – Buffer HTTP requests with Cloud Tasks
Cloud Tasks is a fully-managed service that manages the execution, dispatch, and asynchronous delivery of a large number of tasks to App Engine or any arbitrary HTTP endpoint. You can also use a Cloud Tasks queue to buffer requests between services for more robust intra-service communication. Cloud Tasks introduces two new features, the new queue-level […]
GCP – Increasing Resiliency with Load Balancers
A Load balancer is one of the most critical components of cloud network deployments. Over the years, this feature has become fundamental to most networking services. One of the primary use-case for load balancers is to provide redundancy and reliability for applications by sharing traffic across multiple back-ends. A load balancer distributes user traffic across […]
GCP – Internet-facing application delivery: Networking Architecture
Exposing your applications to the internet is a common requirement for enterprises. In this article we would be looking at internet facing application delivery. This references information from the document Networking for internet-facing applications: Reference architecture which should be read for more detail. Internet facing applications Any application meant to be used by people on […]
GCP – Meet our Data Champions: Credit Karma’s Scott Wong on doing 60 billion model predictions per day
Editor’s note: This blog is part of 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 Scott Wong, VP of Platform Engineering at Credit Karma, […]