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Azure – Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template
We can now build an entire Azure Data Explorer environment with ARM template. Schema entities (e.g. tables, functions, policies) can be deployed without an external storage account. Read More for the details.
GCP – A migration story part 2: How NCR & Opus built better availability and resilience for card management in the cloud
This is the second part of the blog series that covers the migration story of NCR Corporation’s Card Management solution, Authentic Cards, to Google Cloud. This installment describes the Google Cloud solutions used in the architecture to strengthen the functional and technical capabilities of the product. We start again by reiterating the fact that migrating […]
GCP – Deliver exception messages through Slack and Webhooks for fast resolution
Building new applications is a lot of fun, but troubleshooting and fixing the crashes that can come with app development is not. While many organizations are fast adopting the DevOps model, there are still some legacy frameworks where developers and operations teams are separate. Developers build and submit apps to their ops team, who in […]
GCP – Reduce scaling costs by up to 50% in Cloud Spanner with doubled provisioned storage
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that offers unlimited scale, strong consistency across regions, and high availability up to 99.999%. Spanner handles more than two billion requests per second. Spanner is trusted by customers in financial services, retail, gaming and many other industries. We are excited to announce that Spanner has doubled […]
GCP – Verifying the security and privacy controls of Google Cloud: 2021 CCAG customer pooled audit
Earning the role as our customers’ most trusted cloud requires commitment to ongoing transparency, collaboration and assurance. Our products regularly undergo independent verification, achieving certifications or attestations of compliance against global regulatory requirements, frameworks, and guidelines. At Google Cloud we work closely with our customers, their regulators, and appointed independent auditors who want to verify […]
GCP – Announcing BigQuery and BigQuery ML operators for Vertex AI Pipelines
Developers (especially ML engineers) looking to orchestrate BigQuery and BigQuery ML (BQML) operations as part of a Vertex AI Pipeline have previously needed to write their own custom components. Today we are excited to announce the release of new BigQuery and BQML components for Vertex AI Pipelines, that help make it easier to operationalize BigQuery […]
GCP – Deploy a coloring page generator in minutes with Cloud Run
Have you ever written a script to transform an image? Did you share the script with others or did you run it on multiple computers? How many times did you need to update the script or the setup instructions? Did you end up making it a service or an online app? If your script is […]
GCP – Cloud Support API: Building a “red button” for creating critical cases
The Cymbal Group is a happy (and fictional) GCP premium support customer. They enjoy the benefits of being a premium support customer – access to a dedicated Technical Account Manager (TAM), 15 minute response time for P1 Technical support cases, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and now – access to the Cloud […]
AWS – Now launch RStudio on Amazon SageMaker using AWS CloudFormation
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. Data scientists and developers can launch the familiar RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) in a single click to build, train, and deploy models on Amazon SageMaker. You can elastically dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 now offers usage-based pricing for resource records above the free tier limit
Starting today, you can add resource records to your Amazon Route 53 hosted zones beyond the free tier limit using pay-as-you-go pricing. Previously, Route 53 customers could add a maximum of 10,000 resource records to any hosted zone for free. Customers who required more than 10,000 resource records in a hosted zone had to contact […]