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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

The cloud services sector is still dominated by Amazon and the other so-called “hyperscalers” — e.g. the Microsoft Azures, Google Cloud Platforms and IBM Clouds of the world. ” Friend and Flowers joined forces in 2015 to start Wasabi, when Friend was still the CEO of cloud backup company Carbonite.

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Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost of DynamoDB

TechCrunch

And Google doesn’t want you to forget it. Google today announced that Cloud Spanner, its distributed, decoupled relational database service hosted on Google Cloud, is now more efficient in terms of both compute and storage, delivering what Google describes […]

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Storage Options in Google Cloud

Cloud That

Persistent Disks (Block Storage). Filestore (Network File Storage). Cloud Storage (Object Storage). One of the fundamental resources needed for today’s systems and software development is storage, along with compute and networks. Persistent Disks (Block Storage). TABLE OF CONTENT. Conclusion.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

But, what exactly is a cloud service provider? As the name suggests, a cloud service provider is essentially a third-party company that offers a cloud-based platform for application, infrastructure or storage services. What Is a Public Cloud? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Overview. What Are the Advantages of AWS?

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VPC Service Controls – A step by step guide

Xebia

Take for example the ability to interact with various cloud services such as Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, etc. When defining a cloud environment you will most likely configure a network (Virtual Private Cloud: VPC). In the diagram below you can see it a bit more clearly.

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Understanding Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Xebia

Jeroen will take you along RAG applications, and their implementations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP Tools for Building a RAG System To build an efficient and scalable Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides several powerful tools that can be seamlessly integrated.

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Setup keyless authentication to Google Cloud for GitHub Actions using Terraform

Xebia

When a GitHub Actions workflow needs to read or mutate resources on Google Cloud it must first authenticate to the platform. The following example only works when you already have a way to authenticate to your Google Cloud project when running Terraform.