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GCP – Cloud Composer at Deutsche Bank: workload automation for financial services
Running time-based, scheduled workflows to implement business processes is regular practice at many financial services companies. This is true for Deutsche Bank, where the execution of workflows is fundamental for many applications across its various business divisions, including the Private Bank, Investment and Corporate Bank as well as internal functions like Risk, Finance and Treasury. […]

GCP – 70 apps in 2 years: How Renault tackled database migration
Editor’s note: Renault, the French automaker, embarked on a wholesale migration of its information systems—moving 70 applications to Google Cloud. Here’s how they migrated from Oracle databases to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. The Renault Group, known for its iconic French cars has grown to include four complementary brands, and sold nearly 3 million vehicles in […]

GCP – How Cohere is accelerating language model training with Google Cloud TPUs
Over the past few years, advances in training large language models (LLMs) have moved natural language processing (NLP) from a bleeding-edge technology that few companies could access, to a powerful component of many common applications. From chatbots to content moderation to categorization, a general rule for NLP is that the larger the model, the greater […]

GCP – Achieving Autonomic Security Operations: Why metrics matter (but not how you think)
What’s the most difficult question a security operations team can face? For some, is it, “Who is trying to attacks us?” Or perhaps, “Which cyberattacks can we detect?” How do teams know when they have enough information to make the “right” decision? Metrics can help inform our responses to those questions and more, but how […]

AWS – Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS support for Hindi and Indian English
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kajal, a new bilingual neural text to speech (TTS) voice supporting Hindi and Indian English. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud IAM Google Cloud
Once you have identified who a user is (authenticated them) using Cloud Identity, the next step is to define what they can do on Google Cloud (authorize them) so they can access the resources they are permitted to use. Access control for Google Cloud resources is managed by Cloud IAM policies for humans and by […]

AWS – Amazon ECR Public now supports tag listing API for public repositories
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public (ECR Public) launched API support for listing tags for any repository in ECR Public. Now you can use Docker registry HTTP API v2 to list available tags in any public repository in addition to ECR Public gallery. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing the re-Launched AWS Security Competency
We are excited to announce AWS Security Competency has been re-Launched with new consolidated categories to help customers more easily discover AWS Partner solutions validated by AWS. Partners with Security Competency provide solutions to help customers elevate their security in the cloud at any stage in their cloud journey. Of the eight new consolidated categories, […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MariaDB running on version 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5
Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now support for Amazon RDS for MariaDB databases running on major versions 10.3, 10.4, or 10.5. With Amazon RDS Proxy, customers can make applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: VM Applications – Manage and deploy applications to VMs and VMSS
VM Apps is a service that simplifies management, sharing, and global distribution of application packages at scale. Read More for the details.