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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. […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: Solving scale and complexity in retail pricing with BigQuery, Looker, Analytics Hub and more
Context and Background Maintaining optimal pricing in the retail industry can be challenging when relying on manual processes or platforms that are not equipped to handle the complexity and scale of the task. The ability to quickly adapt to factors affecting pricing has also become a critical success factor for retailers when pricing their products. […]
AWS – AWS Nitro Enclaves announces support for multiple enclaves
AWS Nitro Enclaves now supports the ability to create more than one enclave per EC2 instance. AWS Nitro Enclaves is an Amazon EC2 capability that enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports new SSL/TLS certificates and certificate controls
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) has new certificate authorities with 40 year and 100 year validity. SSL/TLS certificates enable secure communication between your clients and databases. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Security Hub is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. You can now use Security Hub to centrally view and manage the security posture of your AWS accounts in the Middle East (UAE) Region and take advantage of 108 security controls to automatically check your security posture in the Region. Read More for […]
GCP – Connecting Google Kubernetes Engine to Cloud SQL using the Auth Proxy Operator
We are constantly looking for ways to simplify the developer experience on Google Cloud. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a simple way to automatically deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes. Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server. Developers often deploy their applications to GKE and store their data […]
GCP – Cultural drivers of DevOps success
While there are as many ways of defining DevOps as there are people, most would agree that at the most basic level, DevOps is about tools, practices, and how people work together to deliver software quickly, reliably, and safely. A big part of how people work together has to do with their organization’s culture. Research […]
GCP – Transfer data from AWS to GCP using Storage Transfer Service
Overview Storage Transfer Service enables users to quickly and securely transfer data to, from, and between object and file storage systems, including Google’s Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, and on-premises data. This blog walks you through the process of transferring data from AWS S3 to Google’s Cloud Storage in a secure manner using […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports Maximum Concurrency for Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now supports setting Maximum Concurrency to the Amazon SQS event source. Maximum Concurrency for SQS as an event source allows customers to control the maximum concurrent invokes by the Amazon SQS event source. When multiple Amazon SQS event sources are configured to a function, customers can control the maximum concurrent invokes of individual […]