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GCP – How Ulta Beauty manages holiday surges and supports year-round innovation
As we enter the holiday season, retailers are working behind the scenes to ensure they can provide the best experiences for customers, in store and online. Challenges in retail do not begin or end during the holiday season as sudden shifts in customer preferences, supply chain nuances, and overall demand ebbs and flows take place […]
AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) now supports SQL Server on EC2 Operations
Today, we are excited to announce operations support for SQL Server on Amazon EC2 through AWS Managed Services (AMS) Operations on Demand (OOD). This new offering reduces the undifferentiated heavy lifting by offloading database operations such as patching and backup to highly skilled AMS resources. With this launch, customers can now bring their existing SQL […]
Azure – General availability: IoT Hub Service Upgrade
All IoT Hubs will be going through a service upgrade between November 2022 and April 2023 with potential impact to your IoT Hub. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis
You can now use data tiering for Amazon MemoryDB for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for MemoryDB by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node, in addition to storing data in memory. […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Effective immediately, AWS Lambda customers in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can configure up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for their Lambda functions, a 20x increase compared to the previous limit of 512 MB. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS message data protection is now generally available with real-time data redaction and masking
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) recently launched the public preview of message data protection. Amazon SNS message data protection is a new set of capabilities that leverage pattern matching, machine learning models, and content policies to help security and engineering teams facilitate real-time data protection in their applications that use Amazon SNS to exchange […]
AWS – AWS Copilot adds support for AWS App Runner’s privately accessible services and more
Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Copilot version 1.23 with support for AWS App Runner private services. App Runner makes it easier for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. By default, App Runner services are accessible publicly over the […]
GCP – How Wayfair partnered with Google Cloud to upskill their engineers
Over the past ten years, Wayfair, an online furniture and home goods retailer, experienced exceptional growth, with online shoppers engagement (i.e., website, app). This surge in traffic and revenue generation was supported by the decision to engage Google Cloud services. About 4 years ago, Wayfair realized the need for increased elasticity to handle traffic spikes, […]
GCP – From the FBI to Google Cloud, meet CISO Director MK Palmore
Editor’s note: MK Palmore is a director in Google Cloud’s Office of the Chief Information Security Officer, or CISO, a group that works with private- and public-sector organizations to understand and guard against cybersecurity threats. He came to Google Cloud in 2021 from Palo Alto Networks, which he joined following three decades in the Marines […]
GCP – Partnering with the state of Oregon to support a skilled tech workforce
The State of Oregon Employment Department’s WorkSource Oregon organization defines themselves with a simple mission: “Support Business – Promote Employment.” Oregon jobseekers work with WorkSource to create a career plan by setting job and career goals, enrolling in trainings and workshops, and searching and applying for jobs. To support this mission, in August 2021, Oregon […]