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GCP – 10 considerations to help you design cloud networks
Designing your cloud network can be a critical part of your cloud journey. How the final design looks will depend on your own use case. Thinking ahead can save you some time and help avoid potential issues in the future. These ten tips provide some insight into helping you design a better cloud network architecture […]

AWS – Announcing consolidated view of Lambda Insights via Application Insights
You can now easily setup AWS Lambda monitoring and view the health of the Lambda functions via Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights problems directly from the Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights console. This integration makes it easier to dive deep into issues, troubleshoot problems and reduce mean time to resolution for your Lambda functions. The simple set up and problem […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 instances in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions
Amazon Redshift RA3 instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain) and Africa (Cape Town) regions. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale and pay for compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs, and also enable you to more securely and […]

Azure – Generally available: Controls to block domain fronting behavior on customer resources
Block domain fronting behavior on Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door (classic), and Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) resources. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing new simple query options in Cloud Logging
When you’re troubleshooting an issue, finding the root cause often involves finding specific logs generated by infrastructure and application code. The faster you can find logs, the faster you can confirm or refute your hypothesis about the root cause and resolve the issue! Today, we’re pleased to announce a dramatically simpler way to find logs […]

GCP – Data movement for the masses with Dataflow Templates
It’s 4 PM on a Friday afternoon, and your mind has already checked out for the weekend. Just as you are about to close your laptop, you see an e-mail come in from your engineering manager. You dread what lies ahead. “Our data science team needs to analyze streaming data from our Kafka cluster. They […]

GCP – Introducing Media CDN—the modern extensible platform for delivering immersive experiences
The digital media and entertainment industry is experiencing dramatic growth, as audiences migrate to online experiences and content providers seek to deliver new and innovative content. According to The Global Internet Phenomena Report, streaming video accounted for 53.7% of internet bandwidth traffic, up by 4.8% from a year ago. This rapid growth of over-the-top content […]

GCP – The next step for Istio and cloud-native open source
Today we are excited to announce that Google and the Istio Steering Committee have submittedthe Istio project for consideration as an incubating project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). This is a significant milestone for Istio and its community, and we are thrilled to reach this next step in the evolution of the project. […]

AWS – Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2022 AMI now available in preview
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today announced the public preview of the Amazon ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2022 Amazon Machine Image (AMI). Amazon Linux 2022 (AL2022) is the next generation of Amazon Linux from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is designed to provide a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment to develop and run your […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to claim and configure phone numbers programmatically
Amazon Connect launches API to claim new phone numbers and configure them programmatically. Using this API, you can programmatically search for and claim available phone numbers, associate phone numbers to your contact flows, or release phone numbers that are no longer needed. Additionally, the phone number API comes with support for AWS CloudFormation. To learn […]