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AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication. With this new feature, SQL Server Agent jobs created, modified, or deleted on the primary instance will be automatically synchronized to the secondary instance in a Multi-AZ configuration. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Announces Data Transfer Price Reduction for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN services
Beginning April 1, 2022, the inter-Availability Zone (AZ) data transfer within the same AWS Region for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN is free of charge. Previously, customers incurred an inter-AZ data transfer charge for sending data across availability zones while using these networking services. With this pricing change, inter-AZ data transfer […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for role-based access control (RBAC)
Amazon Redshift now supports role-based access control (RBAC), a new enhancement that helps you simplify the management of security privileges in Amazon Redshift. You can use the RBAC feature to control end user access to data at a broad or granular level based on their job role/permission rights and level of data sensitivity. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Power BI
Amazon Redshift now provides native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), which customers can use for authentication and authorization with tools like Microsoft Power BI. You can now use Azure AD to authenticate access to Amazon Redshift and the end users get their permissions based on their group membership defined in Azure AD. Read […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts
Forward Azure Automation diagnostic audit logs to Log analytics workspace to keep track of changes at the automation account level. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud’s key investment areas to accelerate your database transformation
The sky’s the limit when it comes to reimagining digital experiences. At least, that’s how consumers view it. Applications are about more than delivering a service. Today’s customers also expect them to be lightning fast, personalized, and easy to use. Operational databases power your most important applications and, therefore, your business. But, choosing an operational […]
GCP – Database observability for developers: announcing Cloud SQL Insights for MySQL (in preview)
In 2021, we announced Cloud SQL Insights, an easy to use tool that helps developers quickly understand and resolve database performance issues in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. We designed Insights using open standards, with intuitive visualizations and modern architectures, such as microservices, in mind. Insights became one of the fastest adopted new capabilities in Cloud […]
GCP – Now in preview, BigQuery search features provide a simple way to pinpoint unique elements in data of any size
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of search indexes and related SQL SEARCH functions in BigQuery. This is a new capability in BigQuery that allows you to use standard BigQuery SQL to easily find unique data elements buried in unstructured text and semi-structured JSON, without having to know the table schemas in […]