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GCP – Equifax data fabric uses Google Cloud to spin faster innovation
Editor’s note: Here, we look at how Equifax used Google Cloud’s Bigtable as a foundational tool to reinvent themselves through technology. Identifying stolen identities, evaluating credit scores, verifying employment and income for processing credit requests requires data—truckloads of data—galaxies of data! But it’s not enough to just have the most robust data assets; you have […]
Azure – Public preview: HostProcess Containers
You can now package and distribute management operations and functionalities that require host access while retaining versioning and deployment methods provided by containers. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Bring your own Container Network Interface plugin
Use third-party open source or commercial Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins with AKS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Open Service Mesh extension for Azure Arc
You can now use a managed service mesh for Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Key Management System integration
You can now store secrets in BYOK encrypted etcd using Key Management System (KMS). Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: AKS Private Link Service integration
You can now have AKS take care of creating the Private Link Service association to the Kubernetes service identified by the frontend IP configuration of an internal Azure Load Balancer. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Container Storage Interface extensible API for AKS
You can now disable and enable any of the AKS supported CSI drivers using this API. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Encryption SDK for .NET now generally available
Developers can now use the AWS Encryption SDK for .NET to help protect their data. This open-source release makes it easier for developers to encrypt and decrypt their data when building applications using the .NET developer platform. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Predictive Scaling in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Predictive scaling can proactively scale out your Auto Scaling group to be ready for upcoming demand. This allows you to avoid the need to over-provision capacity, resulting in lower EC2 cost, while ensuring your application’s responsiveness. (Previously, Predictive Scaling was only […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches new Snapshot Isolation level support for concurrent transactions
Amazon Redshift has launched support for Snapshot Isolation for concurrent transactions. Amazon Redshift prevents dirty reads, non-repeatable reads, and phantom reads according to the SQL standards. The two options that Amazon Redshift offers to serialize transactions are SERIALIZABLE and SNAPSHOT ISOLATION. The SERIALIZABLE option will implement strict serializability, where a transaction could fail if the result […]