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GCP – Modernized workforce development solutions for our evolving world
State and local agencies witnessed how the pandemic transformed the way government works – creating remote and hybrid work opportunities where they did not exist before, digitizing workforce services across the country, and increasing our world’s reliance on technology. These changes continue to impact how our country’s workforce operates today. As agencies have accelerated their […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in six new regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in the following six regions – Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). With auto scaling, ElastiCache for Redis automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. You can automatically scale your […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the Europe (Spain) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this additional region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation announces spotlight for latest news on CloudFormation features, blogs, and workshops
Today, AWS CloudFormation adds Spotlight tab on the AWS Management Console for CloudFormation to give quick access to curated articles on CloudFormation. You can now find AWS CloudFormation articles from multiple official AWS channels at a single location. You can use this feature to discover the editor’s choice articles from the AWS team on CloudFormation. With […]
AWS – Amazon Polly launches two new Japanese NTTS voices
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kazuha and Tomoko, two new female Japanese neural Text-to-speech (NTTS) voices. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances now available in AWS Region Europe (London)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6gd instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, and they are built on AWS Nitro System. The Nitro System is a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure […]
GCP – Log-based Metrics in Action
Google Cloud Operations Suite provides support for hundreds of metrics across various services. In addition to thesepredefined metrics that are available, you can always report custom metrics from your applications. One of the common requests that I have heard from organizations is to look for patterns of text in their application logs and report data […]
GCP – Google Cloud Firewall capabilities to enhance your security posture and simplify configuration
Google Cloud Firewall is a scalable, built-in service with advanced protection capabilities that helps enhance and simplify security posture, and implement zero trust networking, for cloud workloads. Its fully-distributed architecture provides micro-segmentation and granular control independent of network structure. Our unique architectural approach offers several advantages over the network instance approach, including a simplified network […]
GCP – Unpacking API Management policies [Part 2]: 5 ways to handle REST API authentication
APIs power every digital interaction we experience today – from ordering your favorite coffee on your mobile device, to checking the live scores on your sports app, to even reading this blog on your device. With the growing surface of interactions powered by APIs, even the surface area for a potential attack is increasing. Google […]
GCP – Large scale hybrid API management: Common challenges with structuring the right teams and platform
Introduction In our discussions with technology leaders from around the world for – The Digital Crunch Time: 2022 State of APIs and Applications – two themes emerged #1 Cloud — and hybrid cloud specifically — is becoming a driving factor of success with 59% of respondents saying they were looking to increase their hybrid cloud […]