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GCP – Connect Gateway and ArgoCD: Deploy to Distributed Kubernetes
Integrating your ArgoCD deployment with Connect Gateway and Workload Identity provides a seamless path to deploy to Kubernetes on many platforms. ArgoCD can easily be configured to centrally manage various cluster platforms including GKE clusters, Anthos clusters, and many more. This promotes consistency across your fleet, saves time in onboarding a new cluster, and simplifies […]
GCP – Pro tools for Pros: Industry leading observability capabilities for Dataflow
Dataflow is the industry-leading unified platform offering batch and stream processing. It is a fully managed service that comes with flexible development options (from Flex Templates & Notebooks to Apache Beam SDKs for Java, Python and Go) and a rich set of built-in management tools. It comes with seamless integrations with all Google Cloud products, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for queues by name, description and tags
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for queues in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for queues by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all queues with “priority” in the description. To learn more […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for routing profiles by name, description, and tags.
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for routing profiles in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for routing profiles by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all routing profiles containing “sales” in the description. […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Alert Manager & Ruler logs now available in Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now provides Alert Manager & Ruler logs to help customers troubleshoot their alerting pipeline and configuration in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds check for Microsoft Windows Server end of support on Amazon EC2
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new check that recommends options for Microsoft Windows Server end of support (EOS) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The check inspects your Microsoft Windows Server workloads and automatically lists your Microsoft Windows Server instances that are at EOS or nearing EOS. For example, Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 […]
AWS – AWS Fargate is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Fargate allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Fargate makes it easier to scale applications and helps improve security through application isolation by design. Read […]
GCP – Data governance building blocks on Google Cloud for financial services
Data governance includes people, processes, and technology. Together, these principles enable organizations to validate and manage across dimensions such as: Data management, including data and pipelines lifecycle management and master data management. Data protection, spanning data access management, data masking and encryption, along with audit and compliance. Data discoverability, including data cataloging, data quality assurance, […]
GCP – Develop for Compute Engine in your IDE with Cloud Code
When developing services with Compute Engine, our customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure, you’ll likely find yourself frequently switching between your code editor, terminal, and the Google Cloud Console. Cloud Code is a set of IDE plugins for popular IDEs like VS Code and IntelliJ that make […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for instance creation
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for instance creation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect instances—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use AWS CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Connect instances along with other resources within the instance, including users, quick connects, […]