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Azure – Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Flexible Server ends on 9 November 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server will extend the support for PostgreSQL version 11 and will retire on 9 November 2024. Read More for the details.
Azure – Support for PostgreSQL version 11 in Azure Database PostgreSQL Single Server ends on 9 November 2024
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will extend the support for PostgreSQL version 11 and will now retire on 9 November 2024. Migrate to Flexible Server PostgreSQL version 13 or higher. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 30 September 2025
Migrate your data from Azure unmanaged disk storage to managed disks before September 30, 2025. Read More for the details.
GCP – Best Kept Security Secrets: Tap into the power of Organization Policy Service
The canvas of cloud resources is vast, ready for an ambitious organization to craft their digital masterpiece (or perhaps just their business.) Yet before the first brush of paint is applied, a painter in the cloud needs to think about their frame: What shape should it take, what material is it made of, how will […]
GCP – Divercity uses Google Cloud to build more inclusive and sustainable workforces
Despite a growing number of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, Black and Latinx people remain highly underrepresented in tech. Although comprising 12.6% and 18% of the U.S. labor force respectively, Black professionals hold only 5% of tech positions, while Latinx professionals fill just 6% of tech roles. Long-standing biases in hiring practices and non-inclusive […]
GCP – New startup CPU boost improves cold starts in Cloud Run, Cloud Functions
We are announcing startup CPU boost for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions 2nd gen, a new feature allowing you to drastically reduce the cold start time of Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. With startup CPU boost, more CPU is dynamically allocated to your container during startup, allowing it to start serving requests faster. For some […]
GCP – How to create public Cloud Run services when Domain Restricted Sharing is enforced
In this post, I’ll show you how to allow unauthenticated requests on a Cloud Run service and use the allUsers identity, even if your organization has enabled Domain Restricted Sharing – as many of our larger and security-conscious customers do. Domain Restricted Sharing is a security feature that prevents you from unintentionally granting permissions on […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces updates to the text extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our text extraction feature available via the DetectDocumentText API. Read […]
GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 3 ways serverless can save money and accelerate app development
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a blog series dedicated to answering common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about leveraging data and building apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, Google Cloud Product Manager Rachel Tsao explores how to save money and accelerate app development with serverless. Capital […]
GCP – Listen up: Meet our Multicloud Mindset series on Twitter Spaces
There’s never been a better time to talk about multicloud. It is not simply about ‘lifting-and-shifting’ old IT infrastructure to a cloud for cost savings and convenience, but driving digital transformation by inventing new ways to accomplish business objectives using the best of breed services from different cloud providers. In fact, industry research finds that […]