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GCP – Get to know the top 3 teams of the Google Cloud Hackathon Singapore
Google Cloud hackathon On 10th April 2022, Google Cloud launched the first Singapore Google Cloud Hackathon, where startup teams were tasked to build solutions for either the topics of Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence, Automation or the New Normal, to create innovative solutions and have the opportunity to win prizes. From April to 10th June, Google Cloud […]
GCP – Managing the Looker ecosystem at scale with SRE and DevOps practices
Many organizations struggle to create data-driven cultures where each employee is empowered to make decisions based on data. This is especially true for enterprises with a variety of systems and tools in use across different teams. If you are a leader, manager, or executive focused on how your team can leverage Google’s SRE practices or […]
GCP – Data Intensive Applications with GKE and MariaDB SkySQL
With Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), customers get a fully managed environment to automatically deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications on Google Cloud. Kubernetes has become a preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g. Web Services) but also for stateful applications (e.g. databases). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes […]
GCP – Top 5 Takeaways from Google Cloud’s Data Engineer Spotlight
In the past decade, we have experienced an unprecedented growth in the volume of data that can be captured, recorded and stored. In addition, the data comes in all shapes and forms, speeds and sources. This makes data accessibility, data accuracy, data compatibility, and data quality more complex than ever more. Which is why this […]
GCP – How Google Cloud can help stop credential stuffing attacks
Google has more than 20 years of experience protecting its core service from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and from the most advanced web application attacks. With Cloud Armor, we have enabled our customers to benefit from our extensive experience of protecting our globally distributed products such as Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube. In […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower’s Region deny guardrail expands to include additional AWS Chatbot, Amazon S3 Storage Lens, and Amazon S3 Multi Region Access points APIs
AWS Control Tower has updated its Region deny guardrail to include additional AWS global service APIs to assist in retrieving configuration settings, dashboard information, and support for an interactive chat agent. The Region deny guardrail, ‘Deny access to AWS based on the requested AWS Region’, assists you in limiting access to AWS services and operations […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map is available in two new AWS Regions
AWS Cloud Map is now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Regions. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) tasks, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon […]
GCP – Google Cloud Global External HTTP(S) Load Balancer – Deep Dive
When you provision workloads in the cloud to serve an application, having a load balancer (LB) at the front end of the application or service is strongly recommended. Load Balancers redirect user application requests to various backends (Instance groups, Network Endpoint Groups , Cloud Storage etc) that have the capacity to serve the request. Load […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower adopts AWS CloudTrail Organization logging
AWS Control Tower now includes AWS CloudTrail organization logging as part of landing zone version 3.0. With this new feature, an organization-level AWS CloudTrail trail will be deployed in your organization’s management account to automatically log the actions of all member accounts in your organizations. AWS Control Tower does not configure any parameters for logging […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now reduces AWS Config configuration items by only recording global resources in home Regions
AWS Control Tower now helps reduce redundant AWS Config configuration items by limiting recording of global resources to home Regions only. Previously, AWS Control Tower configured AWS Config to record global resources in all Regions. Since global resources are not tied to a specific AWS Region, changes to global resources are identical across Regions. Limiting recording for […]