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AWS – AWS Global Accelerator announces AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint APIs
AWS Global Accelerator now offers two new APIs, AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint, that allow you to add and remove endpoints behind your accelerator. With these new APIs, you can now configure endpoints behind your accelerators without having to provide the full list of endpoints for adding or removing endpoints. Both AddEndpoint and RemoveEndpoint APIs can accommodate […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports Access Point aliases to simplify application access to data
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports Access Point aliases to simplify application access to data. Beginning today, you can configure applications to use the Access Point alias in place of the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) when accessing S3 on Outposts buckets. With Access Points, you can create hundreds of unique policies to control access to […]
AWS – Announcing dark mode support in the AWS Management Console
Today, we are excited to launch dark mode as a beta feature in the AWS Management Console. Dark mode is available as a setting for visual mode in Unified Settings. The setting persists for customers across browsers and devices. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Sensitive Actions to help keep accounts secure
At Google Cloud, we operate in a shared fate model, working in concert with our customers to help achieve stronger security outcomes. One of the ways we do this is to identify potentially risky behavior to help customers determine if action is appropriate. To this end, we now provide insights on what we are calling […]
GCP – Google Cloud Certifications adds new sustainable benefits and donation opportunities
We are thrilled to announce some new Google Cloud certification benefits that reinforce our commitment to Google Cloud certified individuals and our global sustainability strategy. Read on for a look at what’s to come for our certified community. New Google Cloud certified digital toolkit for all Google Cloud certified individuals An official Google Cloud certified […]
GCP – Building a resilient architecture with Cloud SQL
Customers build and deploy many applications that have varied requirements from an availability perspective. The databases that store and manage the data created and used by these applications play a key role in determining the overall availability of the applications. Some applications can tolerate a longer recovery time or RTO (Recovery Time Objective) and have […]
GCP – Paperstack uses Google Cloud to empower e-commerce sellers
Facing tight margins, e-commerce retailers are always trying to find the perfect balance between keeping inventory in stock and meeting changing market demands. This challenge has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, where costs and supply chain disruptions continue to rise. Recognizing the challenges facing e-commerce companies, we builtPaperstack. Our competitive financing enables e-commerce companies […]
GCP – Announcing Apache Iceberg support for BigLake
Apache Iceberg is a popular open source table format for customers looking to build data lakes. It provides many features found in enterprise data warehouses, such as transactional DML, time travel, schema evolution, and advanced metadata that unlocks performance optimization. Iceberg’s open specification allows customers to run multiple query engines on a single copy of […]
GCP – What’s Google talking about? Google-y podcast weekend listening
With the weekend approaching I’m looking forward to some browsing at the farmers’ market, some baking at home with my family, and a ton of listening to podcasts. Google’s got you covered if you want some more tech content, as we’ve been expanding the content on our Cloud podcast page with two exciting new series […]
GCP – Introducing gRPC observability for microservices
gRPC is a modern open source high performance Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It plays a critical role in efficiently connecting microservices in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking, authentication and other cross-cutting features. It may also be applied in the last […]