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GCP – GKE workload rightsizing — from recommendations to action
Do you know how to rightsize a workload in Kubernetes? If you’re not 100% sure, we have some great news for you! Today, we are launching a fully embedded, out-of-the-box experience to help you with that complex task. When you run your applications on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you now get an end-to-end workflow that […]
GCP – Announcing PSP’s cryptographic hardware offload at scale is now open source
Almost a decade ago, we started encrypting traffic between our data centers to help protect user privacy. Since then, we gradually rolled out changes to encrypt almost all data in transit. Our approach is described in our Encryption in Transit whitepaper. While this effort provided invaluable privacy and security benefits, software encryption came at significant […]
GCP – Unlock real-time insights from your Oracle data in BigQuery
Relational databases are great at processing transactions, but they’re not designed to run analytics at scale. If you’re a data engineer or a data analyst, you may want to continuously replicate your operational data into a data warehouse in real time, so you can make timely, data driven business decisions. In this blog, we will […]
GCP – Humans or bots: a guidebook to protect from a range of digital fraud
Download our guidebook to learn how reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help strengthen your website security quickly. Cyber threats on the rise In 2021, the United States saw 40.5% of website attacks committed through “bad bots” on the internet, with 37.2% of government website traffic being bad bots, according to research by cybersecurity firm Imperva1. As cyber threats […]
GCP – Security Roundup – stories and launches from first quarter 2022
The security world keeps changing, with new tools and new threats in the ever-evolving arms race that is cybersecurity. To keep you up to speed on all that Google Cloud is doing to help safeguard your data and your applications, welcome to the first installment of the Security Roundup. In this regular series, I’ll be […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of 1-click public embedding available with Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight now supports 1-click public embedding, a feature that allows you to embed your dashboards into public applications, wikis, and portals without any coding or development. Once enabled, anyone on the internet can start accessing these embedded dashboards with to up-to-date information instantly, without server deployments or infrastructure licensing needed! 1-click public embedding helps […]
GCP – Enable seamless customer conversations with our new Business Messages partners Twilio, Genesys, and Avaya
With billions of searches each day, Google is where people turn when they’re looking to buy something, learn about a product, or complete an important task. With Google’s Business Messages, customers can go straight from Google Search to a one-on-one conversation with a brand and quickly get the information they need. Today, we’re thrilled to […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you can centrally create and manage immutable backups of Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems across all your accounts, protect your data […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to its set of services for centralized data protection
AWS Backup now allows you to protect your Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems, helping you meet your centralized data protection and regulatory compliance needs. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Cloud. You can now use AWS Backup’s policy-based […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
AWS App Mesh now supports IPv6 allowing customers to support workloads running in IPv6 networks and to invoke App Mesh APIs over IPv6. This helps customers to meet IPv6 compliance requirements, and removes the need for expensive networking equipment to handle address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that […]