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AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Serverless in the US West (Northern California), Europe (Paris) AWS regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additonal AWS regions US West (Northern California) and Europe (Paris). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights […]

AWS – AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection feature can now identify and process sensitive data for Japan and UK entities
Sensitive data detection and processing in AWS Glue can now detect PII and other sensitive data specific to United Kingdom (UK) and Japan. Read More for the details.

GCP – Here’s how Anthos helps you do cluster lifecycle operations in your hybrid and multicloud environment
Anthos is a cloud-centric container platform to run modern apps anywhere consistently at scale. Anthos manages your Kubernetes clusters not only on Google Cloud, but also in on-premises data centers and edges, as well as in other public clouds such as AWS and Azure. Anthos meets you where you are and helps you modernize applications […]

GCP – For a successful cloud transformation, change your culture first
Twenty years ago, organizations discovered the magic of server virtualization. Among the many benefits of virtualization, it heralded the end of the need for one physical server per application and the beginning of managing software-defined infrastructure. It helped automate building and installing systems, and it helped lay foundations for today’s Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mechanisms and […]

GCP – When should I use Cloud Armor?
Google Cloud Armor is a well known enterprise-grade DDoS defense and web application firewall service that provides additional security for your applications and websites running on Google Cloud, on-prem or on other platforms. Cloud Armor helps protect against broken access controls, security misconfigurations, cryptographic failures and more. Cloud Armor supports hybrid and multi cloud deployments, […]

GCP – 3 best practices to reduce application downtime with Google Cloud’s API monitoring tools
How many times have you closed an application when you encounter the “spinning wheel of death” (a melodramatic way of saying an application that is taking too long to load)? In today’s digital economy where many organizations rely on applications as a primary source of revenue, that spinning wheel of death (or poor application performance) […]

GCP – How Telus Insights is using BigQuery to deliver on the potential of real-world big data
Editor’s note: Today, we’re hearing from TELUS Insights about how Google BigQuery has helped them deliver on-demand, real-world insights to customers. Collecting reliable, de-identifiable data on population movement patterns and markets has never been easy, particularly for industries that operate in the physical world like transit and traffic management, finance , public health, and emergency […]

Azure – General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Exporting ISE and Consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU
Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension now allows you to export groups of logic apps workflows deployed to Azure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Access modeled data from Looker Studio, now in public preview
In April, we announced the private preview of our integration between Looker and Looker Studio (previously known as Data Studio). At Next in October, to further unify our business intelligence under the Looker umbrella, we announced that Data Studio has been renamed Looker Studio. The products are now both part of the Looker family with […]