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GCP – From open source to managed services: Maisons du Monde’s service mesh journey
Maisons du Monde is a furniture and home decor company founded in France over 25 years ago. With 360 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Portugal our systems and website caters to traffic from across Europe. Our team of Operations Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) manage the MDM website and […]
GCP – How Chrome supports today’s workforce with secure enterprise browsing
When I first started at Google 15 years ago, I was brought on as a “hired hacker” on Google’s security team. I hunted for software vulnerabilities and helped product teams fix and mitigate them. Over the years, I’ve worked on initiatives to ensure security is built-in by default and user-friendly, to detect and mitigate exploits, […]
GCP – 6 Building blocks for cloud networking – Networking Architecture
Cloud offers opportunities to businesses to help them achieve their strategic objectives. One of the foundational components of the cloud is networking. This article explores the building blocks of networking on Google Cloud. The purpose of architecture Moving to the cloud can be a complex endeavor and onboarding and designing your architecture is an important […]
AWS – AWS Cloud WAN is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3, 6, 9, and 12TiB of memory are now available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge), 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge), and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup Launches New Backup Vault Lock Console Experience
AWS Backup now offers a new Backup Vault Lock console experience that provides you a more intuitive way to configure your vault lock details. AWS Backup Vault Lock allows you to deploy and manage your vault’s immutability policies, protecting your backups from accidental or malicious deletions. Depending on your data retention needs, with AWS Backup Vault […]
GCP – U.S. Army chooses Google Workspace to deliver cutting-edge collaboration
In June, we announced the creation of Google Public Sector, a new Google division focusing on helping U.S. public sector entities—including federal, state, and local governments, and educational institutions—accelerate their digital transformations. It is our belief that Google Public Sector, and our industry partner ecosystem, will play an important role in applying cloud technology to […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic
Azure Firewall Basic provides cost-effective, enterprise-grade network security for small and medium businesses (SMBs). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports using your own code to modify the results of S3 HEAD and LIST API requests
Amazon S3 Object Lambda now supports adding your own code to S3 HEAD and LIST API requests, in addition to S3 GET requests. With S3 Object Lambda, you can modify the data returned by S3 GET requests to filter rows, dynamically resize images, redact confidential data, and much more. Now, you can also use S3 Object […]
AWS – Amazon Nimble Studio announces availability of Windows Server 2022 base image
Amazon Nimble Studio now provides a Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Windows Server 2022 in the AWS Marketplace that contains the same pre-installed software as our existing AMIs. Nimble Studio users can further customize this baseline AMI for studio specific workflows. Microsoft Windows Server 2022 helps studios take advantage of the latest Windows features and support […]