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AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces launches APIs to allow custom branding
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces is offering APIs that allow you to customize your users Amazon WorkSpaces experience with your logo, login message, and help links on the WorkSpaces client login page. Using your own brand provides a familiar look and feel when users access your WorkSpaces. Adding your own help links makes it easy for […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ORC file format as an input
AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to clean and transform data stored in the Optimized Row Columnar (ORC) file format, a widely used data format for storing Hive data. When creating a dataset in AWS Glue DataBrew, you can now use ORC files in addition to already supported Apache Avro, Apache Parquet, Microsoft Excel, […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in two new Regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports Global Datastore in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Global Datastore is a feature of ElastiCache for Redis that provides fully managed, fast, reliable, and secure cross-Region replication. Using Global Datastore, you can write to your ElastiCache for Redis cluster in one Region and have the data […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub now supports specifying names for custom integrations
AWS Security Hub now supports specifying company and product names for custom integrations, so that you can better search, aggregate, and take action on findings from custom integrations. Security Hub has 75 official integrations, but it also enables you to ingest findings from custom integrations that you build. Previously, the company and product name for […]
AWS – AWS Backup now allows you to restore virtual disks from protected copies of your VMware virtual machines
AWS Backup now provides you with the flexibility to restore individual virtual disks that are attached to your VMware virtual machines (VMs), in addition to allowing you to restore the entire VM from its protected copy. Using AWS Backup, you can restore your VMware virtual disk to a VM in another VMware environment or in AWS […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Databricks as a data source
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time that it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts
AWS Backup now enables you to protect VMware’s Software-Defined Data Centers (SDDC) on VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts, helping you meet your business and regulatory compliance needs. You can use a single policy in AWS Backup to centrally automate data protection and lifecycle management of your on-premises VMware, VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Cloud […]
GCP – What type of authentication is best for VMs? A conversation
We published another episode of “VM End to End,” which is a series of curated conversations between a “VM skeptic” and a “VM enthusiast”. Every episode, join Brian, Carter, and a special guest as they explore why VMs are some of Google’s most trusted and reliable offerings, and how VMs benefit companies operating at scale […]
GCP – Simplify your DevOps using Skaffold
As the Public Sector Solutions team at Google Cloud, we have many opportunities to develop solutions that make the most of the cutting-edge Cloud technologies. In many projects, we collaborate with multiple development teams to develop, test, and deploy microservice-based solutions, often to GKE clusters. In this blog, we will address these challenges of managing […]
GCP – Bi-directional replication for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using logical replication
Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL supports logical replication and decoding which enables the mirroring of database changes between two PostgreSQL instances in a storage-agnostic fashion. Logical replication allows selective replication of tables and even table rows. Additionally, the replication target does not need to be read-only and can host other tables and databases that can be […]