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GCP – Observing Women’s Equality Day 2022 with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day celebrated in the United States to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. In 1920, one hundred and two years […]
GCP – Google Kubernetes Engine: 7 years and 7 amazing benefits
Today, as we celebrate seven years of general availability of the most automated and scalable managed Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we present seven of the common ways that GKE helps customers do amazing things. Accelerates productivity of developers Developer time is at a premium. GKE provides a rich set of integrated tools to help […]
GCP – Spatial Clustering on BigQuery – Best Practices
Most data analysts are familiar with the concept of organizing data into clusters so that it can be queried faster and at a lower cost. The user behavior dictates how the dataset should be clustered: for example, when a user seeks to analyze or visualize geospatial data (a.k.a location data), it is most efficient to […]
GCP – Dassana secures businesses with Google Workspace, Google Cloud
When Dassana co-founders Gaurav Kumar and Parth Shah, formerly founder and founding engineer at RedLock (now Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks), set out on a new startup journey in 2020, they knew exactly where to start: sign up for Google Workspace. “Every startup I’ve been at, we used Google Workspace,” said Kumar. “We’ve been […]
GCP – How to avoid cloud misconfigurations and move towards continuous compliance
Security is often seen as a zero-sum game between “go fast” or “stay secure.” We would like to challenge this school of thought and introduce a framework to change that paradigm to a “win-win game,” so you can do both—“go fast” and “stay secure.” Historically, application security tools have been implemented much like a gate […]
GCP – University IT professionals compete in first-ever Cloud Hero Cup
To help central IT teams develop digital skills and get excited to learn new technology, Google Cloud created a free training competition, the Cloud Hero Cup. Designed to help teams learn new technology, the Cloud Hero Cup is a gamified learning competition between university IT teams that uses Google Cloud Skills Boost to test and […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift now supports AWS Local Zones
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to AWS Local Zones, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into 8 new Local Zones in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, […]
AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker launches enhancements for scaling digital twins and building data connectors
AWS IoT TwinMaker is launching enhancements to simplify our customers’ experience as they scale their digital twins and build data connectors. AWS IoT TwinMaker makes it easier for developers to create digital twins of real-world systems such as buildings, factories, industrial equipment, and production lines. Digital twins are virtual representations of physical systems that can be […]
AWS – Announcing availability of AWS Outposts rack in Kenya and Oman
AWS Outposts rack can now be shipped and installed at your data center and on-premises locations in Kenya and Oman. Read More for the details.
GCP – Lightweight Application Development with Serverless Cloud Functions (Java) and Cloud SQL (SQL Server) in 2 minutes
Introduction In this post, you’ll learn to build a Java based Cloud Function that will connect to a Cloud SQL for SQL Server database using the Cloud SQL Connector for Java. This solution will help you learn to build event driven lightweight solutions for any stand-alone functionality with Cloud SQL database that respond to Cloud […]