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Cloud News – March 2021

01 Mar, 2021
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We have read and selected a few articles and other resources about the latest developments around cloud technology so you don’t have to. Read further and keep yourself up-to-date in five minutes!

Introducing GKE Autopilot: a revolution in managed Kubernetes

GKE Autopilot manages the infrastructure, letting you focus on your software. Autopilot mode automatically applies industry best practices and can eliminate all node management operations, maximizing your cluster efficiency (you will not be charged for idle nodes), helping to provide a stronger security posture and ultimately simplifying Kubernetes.

Read more:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/introducing-gke-autopilot

What is Amazon Detective?

Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and identify the root cause of potential security issues or suspicious activities. It automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and uses machine learning to build a linked set of data that enables you to easily conduct faster and more efficient security investigations.

Watch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84BhFGIxIqg

Introduction to Amazon Timestream –Time Series Database

Amazon Timestream is a serverless time series database service for IoT and operational applications that makes it easy to store and analyze trillions of events per day. Amazon Timestream saves you time and cost in by keeping recent data in memory and moving historical data to a cost optimized storage tier.

Watch video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsmhOkimHyI

What are my hybrid and multicloud deployment options with Anthos?

Anthos is a managed application platform that extends Google Cloud services and engineering practices to your environments so you can modernize apps faster. With Anthos, you can build enterprise-grade containerized applications with managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud, on-premises, and other cloud providers.

Read more:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/what-are-my-hybrid-and-multicloud-deployment-options-anthos

Accelerate data science workflows with Looker

Looker is a modern business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform that is now a part of Google Cloud. It’s a full-fledged data application and visualization platform and it allows users to curate and publish data, integrating with a wide range of endpoints in many different formats ranging from CSV, JSON, Excel, files to SaaS and in-house built custom applications.

Read more:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/training-certifications/how-to-use-looker-on-google-cloud-for-data-governance

Luca Cavallin
Luca is a Software Engineer and Trainer with full-stack experience ranging from distributed systems to cross-platform apps. He is currently interested in building modern, serverless solutions on Google Cloud using Golang, Rust and React and leveraging SRE and Agile practices. Luca holds 3 Google Cloud certifications, he is part of the Google Developers Experts community and he is the co-organizer of the Google Cloud User Group that Binx.io holds with Google.
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