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AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) is now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Cape Town region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces Patch Policies, enabling cross account and cross Region patching
Now deploy patch policies across AWS accounts and AWS Regions using AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager and AWS Organizations. Read More for the details.
GCP – Built with BigQuery: How to accelerate data-centric AI development with Google Cloud and Snorkel AI
In Deloitte’s annual “State of AI in the Enterprise” survey, 94% of business leaders identified AI as critical to their organizations’ success over the next five years. That survey also uncovered a 29% increase in the number of organizations struggling to achieve meaningful AI-driven business outcomes. Part of this challenge lies in the ability to […]
GCP – The search bar got a workout on Black Friday 2022
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year and in preparation for NRF The Big Show, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. Lucidworks had previously published “4 lessons […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure App Health Extension – Rich Health States
Application Health Extension, Rich Health States allows for more detailed health reporting on your VM applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – Run data science workloads without creating more data silos
For organizations, it is important to build a data lake solution that offers flexible governance and the ability to break data silos while maintaining a simple and manageable data infrastructure that does not require multiple copies of the same data. This is particularly true for organizations trying to empower multiple data science teams to run […]
GCP – Reliability and SRE in the 2022 State of DevOps Report
When a software change is deployed — after being designed, coded, tested, packaged, and tested some more — a journey comes to an end. At the same time, a new journey begins: your customer’s relationship with your service. It’s here, in the domain of operations, that abstract risks like launch schedule slippage give way to […]
GCP – DORA’s implementation period starts now. What we’re doing to prepare for the new law
Today is the start of the two year implementation period for the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). Financial entities in the European Union (EU) and their critical ICT providers must be ready to comply with DORA by January 17, 2025. At Google Cloud, we firmly believe that DORA will be vital to accelerating digital […]
GCP – Managing Dialogflow CX Agents with Terraform
Dialogflow CX is a powerful tool in Google Cloud that you can use to design conversational agents powered by Natural Language Understanding (NLU) to transform user requests into actionable data. You can integrate voice and/or chat agents in your app, website, or customer support systems to determine user intent and interact with users. If you’ve ever […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports the request header order and header count headers
Amazon CloudFront now supports the “Cloudfront-viewer-header-order” and “Cloudfront-viewer-header-count” headers, enabling customers to track the total number of HTTP headers sent with each request, as well as the order in which the headers were sent. Customers can use the two headers to detect and identify request patterns and compare them to the expected and legitimate patterns. […]