Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – Generally available: Dapr secrets API support
You can now use Dapr secrets APIs from your Azure Container Apps and leverage Dapr secret store component references when creating other components in the environment. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Container Apps Azure Monitor integration
Azure Container Apps now support using Azure Monitor to send your logs to additional destinations. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Dapr support for managed identity in Azure Container Apps
Container Apps now provides support for using Dapr with Managed Identity. Read More for the details.
GCP – Implementing IAM access control as code with HashiCorp Terraform
Today, digital transformation requires security transformation. Identity and Access Management (IAM) can be used as the first line of defense in your Google Cloud security strategy. Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a collection of tools that allows administrators to define who can do what on resources in a Google Cloud account. Understanding what users […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio now supports Fine-grained data access control with AWS Lake Formation and Amazon EMR
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning. Studio comes with built-in integration with Amazon EMR so that data scientists can interactively prepare data at petabyte scale using frameworks such as Apache Spark right from Studio notebooks. We’re excited to announce that SageMaker Studio now supports applying fine-grained data access […]
GCP – A closer look at Translation Hub: Enterprise translation made easy
Hello! ¡Hola! 你好! नमस्ते! Bonjour! Being greeted in your own language can instantly put a smile on your face, and organizations around the world recognize that messages become more inclusive and powerful when translated into many languages. As the Head of Product Management for Translation AI at Google Cloud, I am always looking to make […]
GCP – Moneyball for the Front Office
In 2002, the Oakland Athletics’ successful application of sabermetrics – which was later popularized by the film Moneyball – transformed professional baseball (and later, most other sports) by applying statistics and data science to win games. For years, sports analytics efforts were focused on player stats and game outcomes. Today, the same applied statistics have […]
GCP – 4 new features of Active Assist to help automate idle resource management
Unattended Project Recommender makes identifying idle cloud projects easy, and helps you mitigate associated security issues, reduce unnecessary spend and environmental impact. In order to implement a scalable and repeatable resource lifecycle management process, it’s important to have the right tools for the job. Today, we’re announcing several new capabilities that can help you make […]
GCP – Pub/Sub Group Kafka Connector now GA: a drop-in solution for data movement
We’re excited to announce that the Pub/Sub Group Kafka Connector is now Generally Available with active support from the Google Cloud Pub/Sub team. The Connector (packaged in a single jar file) is fully open source under an Apache 2.0 license and hosted on our GitHub repository. The packaged binaries are available on GitHub and Maven […]
GCP – Move over 2022: Predictions from Google Cloud experts that will reshape IT
Here at Google Cloud, we love helping organizations imagine what is possible, work toward their biggest goals, and build the technology that brings this all together so they can convert opportunities into reality. To do this, we think it’s important to look towards the future so we can help developers and businesses learn, grow, and […]