Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – Azure Routing Preference is now generally available
Choice matters when it comes to cloud. Routing preference enables network service tiers for internet bound traffic, letting you to optimize for performance or cost. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google’s Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API now generally available
Last fall, weannounced the Public Previewof the Google Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API, which gives healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals’ consent over use of health data. Since then, early adopters have used the API to do things like create personalized patient portals, securely integrate data into clinical workflows […]
GCP – Zero-footprint DR solution with Google Cloud VMware Engine and Actifio
Data is the lifeblood of the modern business and you simply cannot afford to lose it: Downtime and data loss are costly and risky, and end users expect 24×7 access to their applications and data. As such, every organization needs a comprehensive business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) strategy that ensures uptime, minimizes data […]
GCP – Introducing Cloud Code Secret Manager Integration
Storing secrets like database credentials and passwords in code is never secure. Wouldn’t it be great if your IDE tool could help you write more secure code? That’s why we’re excited to announce the new Cloud Code integration with Secret Manager! Today, many applications require credentials to connect to a database, API keys to invoke […]
GCP – Exploring Cloud Spanner data in DBeaver
In our ongoing effort to meet our developer community where they are, we are excited to announce native support for Cloud Spanner in DBeaver 21.0. DBeaver is a popular open source graphical database development tool that lets you browse and edit databases, create and execute SQL scripts, export data, transaction management and ER diagrams. These […]
GCP – Testing Cloud SQL failover: Where to begin
One of the key considerations of a high availability setup for Cloud SQL is its ability to failover from a primary instance to a standby instance if the primary instance becomes unresponsive. It might be a paradigm shift to think about purposely initiating a failover and watching what happens, but it can be tremendously helpful […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
AWS Graviton2-based database instances for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL are now supported in: US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open source databases depending […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
AWS Lambda now supports four new Trusted Advisor checks to help customers optimize the cost, security, function runtime version and fault tolerance of their Lambda functions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces is available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, increasing the number of AWS Regions in which WorkSpaces is available to 14. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users and data, providing a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can better meet data sovereignty requirements […]