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GCP – Four Ways States Use Digital Tools to Deliver Critical Services
Government leaders are reimagining the way they serve communities in the new digital era. They’ve traded manual, paper-based processes and in-person services for digitized, flexible solutions that offer better constituent experiences and improve operations. Google Cloud is working with SpringML to help public sector agencies address four pandemic-driven challenges with digital solutions. Keeping the World […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports ALLOW_WEAK_CRYPTO* parameters for the Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE) option
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports two new customer modifiable sqlnet.ora parameters for the Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE) option. This feature allows customers to block older ciphers and algorithms from being used by the SQL*Net encryption and checksum parameters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing a new Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable standby instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and for MySQL now supports a new Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs). This deployment option is optimized for write transactions and is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency, automated failovers, and more read […]
AWS – Amazon MSK offers enhanced AWS CloudFormation support
You can now use AWS CloudFormation to manage Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) cluster configurations and SASL/SCRAM secrets. To learn more about Amazon MSK support for AWS CloudFormation, refer to our AWS CloudFormation documentation. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Central generally available in South Central US and Canada Central
You can now use Azure IoT Central in South Central (United States) and Canada Central (Canada) to build reliable, scalable, and secure enterprise grade IoT Solutions. Read More for the details.
AWS – You can now choose from two different compression options on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
With the introduction of LZ4 data compression, you can now choose from two different compression options on Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems. LZ4 provides another highly popular performance-optimized compression option (in addition to Z-Standard) to help you optimize storage efficiency and performance based on the needs of your individual workloads. Read More for the […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s security and resiliency measures for customers and partners
As the tragic Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, we want to provide customers and partners with an update on how Google Cloud is providing resources for organizations, protecting against potential cyberattacks, and delivering network resiliency. We continue to work closely with U.S. and international officials in our approach—and have undertaken several steps across Google to […]
GCP – Customizing time ranges for budgets in the console
TL;DR: You can now use the Google Cloud Console to customize the time ranges of your budgets! Technically you’re saving money because the month is shorter, right? Good news everyone! If you manage your budgets through the Google Cloud Console, you can now choose custom time ranges for your budgets. Those of you dedicated readers […]
AWS – Achieve faster database failover with the Amazon Web Services JDBC Driver for MySQL
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java (JDBC) Driver for MySQL is now generally available for use with your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver minimizes failover time by monitoring database cluster status and caching the cluster’s topology. The cache is then used to improve DNS name resolution speed if a […]
GCP – Extending network reachability of Vertex AI Pipelines
Vertex AI Pipelines and jobs use the Service Networking API to configure their networking. As such, they will run in a Google-owned VPC network in tenant project that is peered to the network in your project. This peering is subject to the following standard VPC Peering networking constraints; The Google-owned network has its own default […]