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AWS – Amazon Quicksight Line chart support for 10,000 data points
Amazon QuickSight now supports 10,000 data points for Line charts. With this update, line chart performance has been improved to support 10,000 data points from the earlier 2500 data point limit and introduces other minor bug fixes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics
Gain a greater security stance by explicitly authorizing a partner to create partner topics or partner destinations in your Azure subscription. Read More for the details.
GCP – Getting started with OpenSSH on Windows Compute Engine instances
One of the best practices for managing your virtual machines in the cloud is to rely on smart automation for certain tasks. When done this way you can save cloud and IT teams a tremendous amount of time and toil, especially for tasks like VM state validation which we’ll talk about in this blog. Let’s […]
GCP – Implementing HKMA’s Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) on Google Cloud
In this post, we will discuss how Google Cloud can be used as a backup storage solution to support the objectives of the Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) guideline developed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Association of Banks. We will focus on the storage location and its surrounding security controls. […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports suppression of files and folders in code reviews
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential code defects that are difficult to find and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we’re announcing the support of file/folder suppression for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a new feature that allows customer to prevent CodeGuru Reviewer from surfacing findings on […]
Azure – Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
You can now deploy Static Web Apps to staging environments using Azure DevOps. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches an API to programmatically stop queued callbacks
Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically stop queued callbacks using the StopContact API. Queued callbacks reduce the time callers have to wait by enabling them to provide a phone number to be called back when an agent becomes available. In some situations, customers can end up calling repeatedly and registering for multiple callbacks. You […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing RDS instances. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their databases on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) customers can now create and manage clusters in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Object replication on premium blob storage and rule limit increased
You can now replicate your block blobs to region of your choice with object replication for premium block blobs and rule limit is increased to 1000 containers per replication policy. Read More for the details.