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AWS – AWS announces Systems Manager Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces the launch of Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler, based on AWS Solutions’ Instance Scheduler. Quick Setup for Resource Scheduler provides a user interface in the console which enables you to easily configure schedules for your instances to optimize compute capacity and save costs across accounts and Regions in your Organization. […]
AWS – Service Quotas is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
You can now use Service Quotas in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region to view and manage your service quotas at scale as your AWS workloads grow. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition adds labels and improves accuracy of existing labels for video
Amazon Rekognition Labels is a machine learning-based image and video analysis service that can detect objects, people, text, scenes, and activities. On 11/23/2022, we launched an update to the machine learning model of Amazon Rekognition Labels Image to add 600 labels and improve the accuracy of over 2,000 existing labels. We also added an ability […]
AWS – AWS Resource Access Manager is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region
You can now use AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Filestore Enterprise Muiltshares for GKE now generally available
When setting up storage for your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment, customers can choose between block storage (Persistent Disk, or PD) or file storage (Filestore Enterprise). While both storage types are fully supported with containers on GKE including operations such as migrating containers across hosts for use cases such as upgrades or failover, Filestore Enterprise […]
GCP – IT prediction: In the future, anyone can be a developer
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: By 2025, over half of all business applications will be built by users who do not identify as professional developers […]
GCP – ICYMI: Security Talks goes deep on SolarWinds, Chrome, Zero Trust, and today’s toughest SOC challenges
Security operations teams are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges from nation-state actors turning their attention to financial crime, to rising uncertainty and potential complexities because of rapidly advancing cloud migration and IoT adoption, to the long-lamented skills shortage. Now imagine having to face this trifecta without visibility into your IT and security infrastructure because […]
GCP – The top 8 products startups use on Google Cloud
Startups worldwide turn to Google Cloud tools to build fast on a strong and easy to use platform that helps them get to market and launch products faster, all while building on the cleanest cloud in the industry. Startups leverage Google Cloud and our Google for Startups Cloud Program to go from idea to IPO, […]
GCP – A motorcycle accident left Googler Yariv Adan with chronic pain—it’s made him an advocate for empathy and equity
Editor’s note: Yariv Adan has been involved in the creation of some of Google’s most well-known and astonishing products—helping make complex Artificial Intelligence (AI) accessible and useful to billions of people. For a long time, he’s been living with chronic pain. A naturally lively and curious person, his personal journey has taught him resilience and […]
GCP – Google Cloud wrapped: Top 22 news stories of 2022, according to you
What a year! Over here at Google Cloud, we’re winding things down, but not before taking some time to reflect on everything that happened over the past twelve months. Inspired by the custom Spotify Wrapped playlist playing in our earbuds, we pulled the data about the best-read Google Cloud news posts of the year, to […]