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GCP – Filestore Enterprise for fully managed, fault tolerant persistent storage on GKE
Storing state with containers Kubernetes has become the preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g., web services) but also for stateful applications (e.g., e-commerce applications). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes users run stateful applications in containers. Additionally, there is a rising trend of managed data services like […]
GCP – How NTUC FairPrice delivers a seamless shopping and payment experience through Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today we hear from NTUC Enterprise, which operates a sprawling retail ecosystem, including NTUC FairPrice, Singapore’s largest grocery chain, and a network of Unity pharmacies and Cheers convenience stores. As a social enterprise, NTUC Enterprise’s mission is to deliver affordable value in areas like daily essentials, healthcare, childcare, ready-to-eat meals, and financial services. […]
GCP – Introducing easier de-identification of Cloud Storage data
De-identification of Cloud Storage just got easier Many organizations require effective processes and techniques for removing or obfuscating certain sensitive information in the data they store. An important tool to achieve this goal is de-identification. Defined by NIST as a technique that “removes identifying information from a dataset so that individual data cannot be linked […]
GCP – Analyze Pacemaker events using open source Log Parser – Part 4
This blog is the fourth in a series and it follows the blog Analyze Pacemaker events in Cloud Logging, which describes how you can install and configure Google Cloud Ops Agent to stream Pacemaker logs of all your high availability clusters to Cloud Logging. You can analyze Pacemaker events happening to any of your clusters […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core launches a new device provisioning console experience
AWS IoT Core now offers a new device provisioning console experience that enables customers a more intuitive way to select the best provisioning option for their IoT solution. You can now more easily navigate the device provisioning scenarios and follow a simple flow to create a provisioning template and configure permissions for a single or […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces tiered pricing
AWS Lambda now provides tiered pricing for monthly Lambda function duration i.e. GB-Seconds of usage. The two additional pricing tiers provide discounts on your aggregate monthly on-demand function duration. Tiered pricing takes effect in the monthly billing cycle starting on Aug 1st, 2022. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Data Exchange increases the asset size limit to 100GB
Third-party data providers on AWS Data Exchange can now import Amazon S3 assets up to 100GB in size, an increase from the former limit of 10GB. The increased asset size unlocks new use cases in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Retail among other industries, because providers can now license genomics data, high volume […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches API-based domain allow listing for developers to scale embedded analytics across different applications
Amazon QuickSight now supports API-based allow listing of domains where QuickSight data visualizations can be embedded. With this new capability, developers can scale their embedded analytics offerings including visuals, dashboards, QuickSight Q (natural language querying), and authoring experience across different applications for their different customers quickly. All of this is done without any infrastructure setup […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g, M6g, R6g instances in the Europe (Paris, Milan) regions and R6gd instances in the Europe (Paris) region
Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g, M6g and R6g node types in the Europe (Paris) and Europe (Milan) regions. Customers choose Amazon ElastiCache for workloads that require blazing-fast performance with sub-millisecond latency and high throughput. Now, with Graviton2 T4g, M6g and R6g instances, customers can enjoy up to a 45% price/performance improvement over previous […]