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AWS – Amazon Athena adds minimum encryption to enhance query result security
Amazon Athena has expanded its encryption settings to improve the security of your query results. With today’s launch, you can now ensure all query results are encrypted at or above a level of encryption that you specify. Read More for the details.
GCP – Process to drop partitions concurrently within PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL or AlloyDB)
Disclaimer: Please note that this script is not by any means an official script released by Google Cloud, it can only be used for education and guidance purposes. Anyone who would like to use this automation method in their production environment must first customize the script and own it from a development and support perspective. […]
GCP – Jump start your future career with Google Cloud certifications
Ever since I published “Career tips and no-cost training for the next generation of cloud technology,” people have been asking me how to turn the trends introduced in the blog post into career growth. As I said in the blog post, these new ways that businesses are using the cloud come with the need for […]
GCP – Lighting the way: How ASML revived Moore’s Law and remade chipmaking
Declaring the death of Moore’s Law has become something of a popular pastime in tech circles, based on the assumption that chips will have to stop doubling in power every two years because there has to be a limit to how many transistors can fit on them. Right? And yet, chipmakers continue to defy expectations […]
GCP – Google chip design team benefits from move to Google Cloud
Editor’s note: All companies can wrestle with a cloud migration, even Google. That’s why within Google Cloud, we have a team called Alphabet Cloud whose mission is to assist any Alphabet team with a safe, frictionless journey to Google Cloud. Some of these internal customers include DeepMind, Vertex AI, Waze, and, today’s example, Google’s chip […]
GCP – Distributing software everywhere, all at once – a look at Cloud Deploy multi-target
As a developer, I’ve long dreamed of releasing to multiple targets at once – it speeds things up, and simplifies operations. Finally it’s real. This is all possible in the latest Cloud Deploy Public Preview. Whether you’re trying to improve release performance or organize your deployment phase targets – gone are the days of waiting […]
GCP – Announcing new BigQuery inference engine to bring ML closer to your data
Organizations worldwide are excited about the potential of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning capabilities. However, according to HBR, only 20% see their ML models go into production because ML often is deployed separately from their core data analytics environment. To bridge this increasing gap between data and AI, organizations need to build massive data pipelines, […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core deepens integration with Amazon Sidewalk
AWS IoT Core, a cloud service that connects billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and routes trillions of messages to AWS services, announce a deeper integration with Amazon Sidewalk. With AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk, customers can now easily provision, onboard, and monitor their Amazon Sidewalk devices. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now automatically configured for all new Cost Explorer users
We are pleased to announce that as of today, new Cost Explorer users will automatically receive the benefit of Cost Anomaly Detection. Cost Anomaly Detection uses machine learning to continuously monitor, detect, and alert customers of unexpected cost increases. The default configuration allows new Cost Explorer users to quickly improve cost controls with zero effort. […]
AWS – Amazon EKS adds domainless gMSA authentication for Windows containers
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) announces domainless Group Managed Service Account (gMSA) support for Windows containers. This helps customers to easily authenticate applications hosted on Amazon EKS with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) using a portable user identity and a plug-in mechanism to retrieve the gMSA credentials for their Windows containers. Now, customers can run containers […]