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GCP – Snooze your alert policies in Cloud Monitoring
Does your development team want to snooze alerts during non-business hours? Or proactively prevent the creation of expected alerts for an upcoming expected maintenance window? Cloud Alerting in Google’s Cloud operations suite now supports the ability to snooze alert policies for a given period of time. You can create a Snooze by providing specific alert […]
GCP – Google Cloud Workspace Add-On Customization
As a user of Google Workspace, have you ever thought “I wish it could do this?” No product can be the perfect fit for every niche situation. As a high school math teacher, I have very specific needs for Google tools to accommodate dozens to hundreds of students. While I can not expect out-of-the-box solutions […]
GCP – Utilizing Cloud Support API to Programmatically Update Support Cases
Have you ever thought of leveraging Google Cloud’s Support API to programmatically manage your support cases? Or what if you wanted to create some scripts that can be plugged into your existing support case management system? In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how we can utilize Google Cloud’s Support API in order to […]
GCP – Utilizing Support API to Extend Support’s Functionality
Have you ever thought of leveraging Google Cloud’s Support API to programmatically manage your support cases? Or what if you wanted to create some scripts that can be plugged into your existing support case management system? In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how we can utilize Google Cloud’s Support API in order to […]
AWS – Introducing the AWS Transfer Family Delivery Program
We are excited to announce the new AWS Transfer Family Delivery Program for AWS Partners that help customers build sophisticated Managed File Transfer (MFT) and Business-to-Business (B2B) file exchange solutions with AWS Transfer Family. AWS Transfer Family enables you to migrate, automate, and monitor your file transfer workflows into and out of Amazon S3 and […]
AWS – Amazon EBS adds the ability to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
In May 2019, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) launched the ability for customers to take crash-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance with a single API call. Now you can choose to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of Amazon EBS data volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Databricks in West US 3
Azure Databricks, a data analytics platform optimized for the Microsoft Azure cloud services platform, is now generally available in West US 3. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Deploy gets continuous delivery productivity enhancements
Since Google Cloud Deploy became generally available in January 2022, we’ve remained focused on our core mission: making it easier to establish and operate software continuous delivery to a Google Kubernetes Engine environment. Through ongoing conversations with developers, DevOps engineers, and business decision makers alike, we’ve received feedback about onboarding speed, delivery pipeline management, and […]
GCP – How organizations can rethink their approach to time management coaching
As business leaders evaluate their hybrid work models, employee productivity is top of mind. They’re trying to understand how to balance organizational needs for productivity with employee needs for autonomy, flexibility, and work/life balance. In my role as Google’s Productivity Advisor, I help organizations and employees realize that being productive means working smartly and efficiently […]
GCP – Zero Trust and BeyondCorp Google Cloud
Let’s say in 2021, you are organizing an in-person event. You need to make sure it’s COVID-safe for everyone attending, so you set up a system in which every person is tested and only allowed in if the results are negative. You had every invitee fill out a form where they shared their negative test […]