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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 […]
GCP – Introducing Active Assist recommendations for BigQuery capacity planning
BigQuery already offers highly flexible pricingmodels, such as the on-demand and flat-rate pricing for running queries, to meet the diverse needs of our users. Today, we’re excited to make it even easier for you to optimize BigQuery usage with new BigQuery slot recommendations powered by Active Assist, a part of Google Cloud’s AIOps solution that […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now reduces visibility of public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) older than two years
Starting today, all public AMIs will have the deprecation time set to two years after their creation date. This means that public AMIs that are more than two years old will by default be deprecated. Once an AMI is deprecated, it will no longer appear in DescribeImages API calls for users that aren’t the owner […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway updates support for VMware and Microsoft hypervisors
AWS Storage Gateway adds support for VMware ESXi 7.0 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2022 and 2019 hypervisors, enabling you to deploy your gateway virtual machines on the latest versions of these hypervisors. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS announces increased service quota for container instances per cluster
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today increased the default service quota for container instances per cluster. You can now launch up to 5,000 instances per cluster, an increase from 2,000. The limit increase enables customers to scale further and improve manageability of their clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Sustainability Pillar is now available in AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS introduced the Sustainability Pillar during re:Invent 2021 to help customers minimize the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads. Today, the Sustainability Pillar is available for customers to use during workload reviews in the AWS Well-Architected Tool, a central place for cloud architecture best practices and guidance. The Sustainability Pillar is designed to help CTOs, […]
AWS – The AWS Lambda console now supports bulk update of layers
You can now select all or a subset of the functions that use a Lambda layer, and update them simultaneously to a newer layer version in the Lambda console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches Concurrency Scaling in the Europe (Stockholm) region
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances […]