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GCP – Google Workspace proves it’s enterprise-ready for SAP Cloud ERP customers
Google Workspace is used by more than three billion users, including companies with the strictest security and availability requirements. Enterprises choose Workspace to stay connected, share ideas, get more done together, and safely work from wherever they are. Now, with the integration of Google Workspace and SAP S/4HANA ERP — the world’s most well-known ERP […]
GCP – Easy Telemetry Instrumentation on GKE with the OpenTelemetry Operator
In recent years, the application monitoring landscape has exploded with instrumentation libraries, SDKs, and backends for storage and visualization. But a major friction point is still the investment required to instrument applications with these libraries, and libraries are often tied to a small set of telemetry backends. The OpenTelemetry project has tried to address these […]
GCP – How CBcloud is improving the working conditions of Japanese delivery people with Google Maps Platform
Today’s post comes from Taichirou Tokumori, Software Development Engineer, CBcloud, and explores how CBcloud uses Google Maps Platform to help Japan’s delivery drivers become more efficient and improve their working conditions. In an age of remote work, delivery drivers face an increasing burden due to the soaring demand of online shopping. At CBcloud, our mission […]
AWS – Refit transforms to prepare data at scale with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Today, we are excited to announce support to refit transforms with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. To make data usable by algorithms such as XgBoost, data scientists must transform non-numeric values to numeric values using transforms such as one-hot encoding. Since transforms like one-hot encoding depend on the data, these transforms are frequently referred to as […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports C6i and R6i instances
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Amazon EC2 C6i and R6i instance types. These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over comparable Generation5 instances for a wide variety of workloads, and always-on memory encryption […]
AWS – Amazon Detective helps reduce time to investigate Amazon GuardDuty findings by grouping related findings
Starting today, Amazon Detective automatically groups related GuardDuty findings to help security analysts reduce triage time and create a more comprehensive security investigation. Detective uses machine learning (ML) to group related GuardDuty findings that in isolation may have been ignored but together show the lifecycle of an attack, which can help security analysts identify advanced […]
GCP – Rethinking your VM strategy with Spot VMs
Organizations globally choose Google Cloud as their transformation partner to accelerate their business and digital transformation because of our leadership in sustainability, AI/ML, data analytics, and more. We are also committed to making cost optimization simple, so we offer a suite of services and tools for customers to effortlessly optimize their environments. “Media.net chose Spot […]
GCP – Explore new map customization demos
We’re excited to bring you two new demos that showcase how Google Maps Platform products and features can come together to help you build unique, interactive geospatial experiences. The demos incorporate some of our newest capabilities like Advanced Markers, Data-driven styling, and the Routes API, plus other capabilities like Cloud-based maps styling, Street View and […]
Azure – Public preview: Exactly once delivery for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
Stream Analytics now supports end-to-end exactly once semantics when writing to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing increased AWS IAM Identity Center default quota values
AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) now supports higher default quotas to help you scale your environment. With the increased quota you can create and assign up to 2,000 permission sets in an Identity Center instance. You can also assign up to 100,000 users and 100,000 groups to as many as 3,000 […]