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GCP – Understanding transactional locking in Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database with unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. It is designed for highly concurrent applications that read and update data, for example, to process payments or for online game play. To ensure the consistency across multiple concurrent transactions, Cloud Spanner uses a combination of shared […]
GCP – Why should game companies choose Cloud Spanner to power their games
Organizations globally use Cloud Spanner, because of its unlimited scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% of availability. In particular, game companies, like Embark Studios use Spanner to help scale and solve the many challenges of a distributed system, such as concurrency and load balancing. According to a recent PwC report, the global gaming industry […]
GCP – Gregorian Pi – Singing of a Constant
Earlier this year, Emma Haruka Iwao calculated π (pi) to 100 trillion digits, up from her previous record of 3.14 trillion in 2019. With the calculation complete, the Pi API has been updated so you can fetch the digits starting from anywhere in the sequence. This API, and the digits themselves, have been used to […]
GCP – Deploy Google Cloud in a few clicks with RAD Lab UI
Just over a year ago, we launched an open source solution, RAD Lab, to help spin up Google Cloud projects quickly and compliantly. RAD Lab serves as a Google Cloud-based sandbox environment to help technology and research teams advance quickly from research and development to production – all while incorporating feedback from the open source […]
GCP – Google Public Sector and Battelle NEON expand data access to advance ecological research
In its mission to enable the exploration and understanding of the ways in which land, life, water and climate interact, the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), one of the largest ecological observation facilities and sensor networks in the world, is working with Google Public Sector to leverage the speed and power of Google Cloud’s artificial […]
GCP – Google Public Sector announces continuity-of-operations offering for government entities under cyberattack
Cyberattacks that target our government are all too common these days. From SolarWinds, to hacks against widely used email servers, to attacks against thedefense industrial base, we know that cyberattacks against the public and private sectors continue to be an issue. Our latest VirusTotal malware trends report illustrates this point as well, with findings that […]
AWS – Amazon S3 request-level information on use of access control lists (ACLs) coming to S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail
Amazon S3 server access logs and AWS CloudTrail logs will soon contain information to identify S3 requests that rely upon an access control list (ACL) for authorization to succeed. This feature, which will be activated over the next few weeks, will provide you with information that will simplify the process of adopting the S3 security […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports enhanced filtering capabilities
Amazon EventBridge now supports additional filtering capabilities including the ability to match against characters at the end of a value (suffix filtering), to ignore case sensitivity (equals-ignore-case), and to have a single EventBridge rule match if any conditions across multiple separate fields are true (OR matching). We’re also increasing the bounds supported for numeric values […]
Azure – General availability: Bot Manager Rule Set 1.0 on regional Web Application Firewall
This rule set provides you enhanced protection against bots and provides granular control over bots detected by WAF by categorizing bot traffic as good, bad, or unknown bots. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon File Cache is now available in four additional AWS Regions
Amazon File Cache is now available in four additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm). Read More for the details.