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GCP – Introducing Security Command Center’s project-level, pay-as-you-go options
One of the toughest challenges security teams can face occurs when IT leaders recognize the urgency to secure their organization’s cloud workloads and data, but operational hurdles create delays that can leave resources vulnerable to cyberattacks. Giving security teams the flexibility to rapidly apply security controls to their most sensitive applications can help ensure that […]

GCP – How microservices and cloud IT helped a popular appointment booking service scale 200 percent
It’s a Friday afternoon and you’re heading home to New York after a two week vacation from somewhere that’s been on your bucket list since you were 12. You find out that you have a big meeting with your entire C-Suite on Monday morning. You look in the mirror, and immediately recognize the need for […]

GCP – Verify Cloud Run service availability with new dedicated uptime checks
A great end user experience is essential to the success of any business. Increasingly, businesses have come to rely on web applications to run their key processes. Any downtime or degradation of user experience across these applications can cause significant losses for the business both in monetary terms and user trust. Therefore, having the ability […]

GCP – Improved gVisor file system performance for GKE, Cloud Run, App Engine and Cloud Functions
Flexible application architectures, CI/CD pipelines, and container workloads often run untrusted code and hence should be isolated from sensitive infrastructure. One common solution has been to deploy defense-in-depth products (like GKE Sandbox which uses gVisor) to isolate workloads with an extra layer of protection. Google Cloud’s serverless products (App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions) also […]

AWS – AWS announces access of Simple Monthly Calculator estimates in the AWS Pricing Calculator
You can now convert previously saved Simple Monthly Calculator (SMC) estimates in AWS Pricing Calculator. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces Pause I/O action for Amazon Elastic Block Store volumes
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports Pause I/O for Amazon EBS volumes as a new FIS action type. With the new fault action, customers with highly available applications can test their architecture and monitoring, such as operating system timeout configurations and CloudWatch alarms, to improve resiliency to storage faults. Customers can observe how their […]

AWS – SageMaker announces preview of ml.p4de instances for model deployment
We are excited to announce the preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge instances for deploying machine learning (ML) models for inference on Amazon SageMaker. Read More for the details.

AWS – Database Activity Streams for Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now available in 3 additional AWS regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle and Amazon Aurora now support Database Activity Streams in AWS regions Europe (Spain), Middle East (UAE), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) . Database Activity Streams provides a near real-time stream of database activities to help meet your relational database for compliance and regulatory requirements. When integrated with third […]

AWS – AWS announces three new AWS Direct Connect locations
Today, AWS announced the opening of new AWS Direct Connect locations in Melbourne, Australia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Zurich, Switzerland. By connecting your network to AWS at one of these locations, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for […]
GCP – Snap maintains uptime and growth with Mission Critical Services
The Snap Inc. visual messaging app, Snapchat, is one of the world’s most popular social media apps. In 2011, the Snapchat platform was developed on Google Cloud to provide an architecture that enabled Snap to focus on its core strengths: advancing the development of its social platform and ecosystem to speed attraction of users and […]