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GCP – Google Cloud infrastructure enhancements tailored for your workloads
For far too long, cloud infrastructure has focused on raw speeds and feeds of building blocks such as VMs, containers, networks, and storage. Today, Moore’s law is slowing, and the burden of picking the right combination of infrastructure components increasingly falls on IT. At Google Cloud we are committed to removing that burden. We’ve engineered […]

GCP – The future of sustainable flying is data-driven for Lufthansa Group
In the past few years, the airline industry hasannounced its commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the next 30 years. Meeting this target will largely depend on the industry’s ability to access sustainable fuel, acquire the latest carbon-friendly aircraft technology, and develop optimization strategies for efficient operations in the air and on the ground. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 now offers an automated connection set-up solution between EC2 instance and RDS Database
Starting today, in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between the EC2 instances and an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora database. Once you have provisioned EC2 instances, you can select a RDS db instance or cluster, and with a single click, complete connectivity configurations to […]

AWS – AWS Activate is now open to all startups
AWS Activate provides startups, including both smaller, early stage companies and more advanced digital businesses, with free tools and resources to quickly get started on AWS. Today we are excited to announce the availability of the new AWS Activate to any self-identified startup. Activate is full of personalized tools and resources designed to support startups […]

AWS – AWS CloudFormation StackSets increases limits on three service quotas
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets increased the default for three service quotas: number of stack instances per stack set, number of stack sets per management account, and number of concurrent stack instance operations in a single AWS Region per management account. You can now (1) deploy up to 100,000 stack instances per stack set (previously 2,000), (2) […]

GCP – Easy Deployment of MEAN stack with MongoDB Atlas, Cloud Run, and HashiCorp Terraform
Serverless computing promises the ability to spend less time on infrastructure and more time on developing your application. But historically, if you used serverless offerings from different vendors you didn’t see this benefit. Instead, you often spent a significant amount of time configuring the different products and ensuring they can communicate with each other. We […]

GCP – Introducing Software Delivery Shield for end-to-end software supply chain security
Organizations and their software delivery pipelines are continually exposed to growing cyberattack vectors. Coupled with the massive adoption of open source software, which now helps power nearly all of our public infrastructure and is highly prevalent in most proprietary software, businesses around the world are more vulnerable than ever. Today’s organizations need to be more […]

GCP – Developers – Build, learn, and grow your career faster with Google Cloud
To help developers build faster, learn faster and grow their career faster with Google Cloud, we are excited to announce three developer initiatives today: a new Google Cloud Skills Boost annual subscription with expanded developer benefits; no-cost #GoogleClout challenges; and the Google Cloud Fly Cup Challenge happening during Google Cloud Next, in partnership with the […]

GCP – Introducing the next evolution of Looker, your unified business intelligence platform
As consumers, we all benefit from unprecedented access to data in everything we do, from finding answers on the web to navigating a new city to picking the best place to eat dinner. But at work it’s not that easy. Instead of having answers to questions at our fingertips, getting those answers is a costly […]
GCP – Advancing digital sovereignty on Europe’s terms
In September 2021, we unveiled “Cloud. On Europe’s Terms,” an ambitious commitment to deliver cloud services that provide the highest levels of digital sovereignty while enabling the next wave of growth and transformation for European organizations. We’ve since seen increasing demand from customers and policymakers for digital sovereignty solutions. Working closely with our European customers, […]