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GCP – Google’s Cloud Console vs Admin Console
If you’ve worked in any facet of IT you know all too well how rapidly technology changes. You’ve probably seen some trendy industry buzz words lately like “cloud native”, “containers”, or “infrastructure as code” just to name a few. The Cloud And then there’s “Cloud”—the buzzword to rule them all! If you are coming from […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer adds four new Trusted Advisor checks
AWS Trusted Advisor adds 4 checks automatically ingested from AWS Compute Optimizer. AWS Trusted Advisor provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices. Trusted Advisor evaluates your account by using checks to identify opportunities for you to improve security and performance, reduce costs, and monitor service quotas. Today, AWS Compute Optimizer checks are available […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Europe (London) Region
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Europe (London) Region. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling now supports single-use token and token rotation capabilities, making remote connections more secure
AWS IoT Secure Tunneling allows customers to access devices that are deployed behind restricted firewalls at remote sites. When a tunnel is created, a pair of client access tokens (CAT) will be generated and used by the source and destination devices to connect to the Secure Tunneling service. Prior to today, a token can be […]
AWS – AWS RoboMaker now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS RoboMaker, a service that makes it easy to simulate robotics applications at scale, is now available in the in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Support in the GovCloud Region allows U.S. government agencies and contractors to run sensitive simulation workloads in AWS RoboMaker by addressing their specific regulatory and compliance requirements. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces managed support for image extraction
Today Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces new APIs and SDKs to help you extract images from your video streams. This fully-managed capability allows customers to request images via API calls or configure automatic image generation based on metadata tags in ingested video. Read More for the details.
GCP – Are your SLOs realistic? How to analyze your risks like an SRE
Setting up Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is one of the foundational tasks of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, giving the SRE team a target against which to evaluate whether or not a service is running reliably enough. The inverse of your SLO is your error budget — how much unreliability you are willing to tolerate. […]
AWS – AWS Serverless Application Model CLI now supports enabling AWS X-Ray tracing
Now you can use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) CLI to enable AWS X-Ray tracing in your AWS SAM templates automatically, without manually authoring your AWS SAM templates. This makes it easier to centrally manage AWS X-Ray tracing across your Lambda functions in your serverless application. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports cascaded read replicas for up to 30X more read capacity
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL announces support for PostgreSQL 14 with three levels of cascaded read replicas, 5 replicas per instance, supporting a maximum of up to 155 read replicas per source instance. You can now create Single-AZ or Multi-AZ cascaded read replica DB instances in same region or any one cross region […]
GCP – Digital transformation starts with living systems leadership
The pandemic inspired a new way for the government to deliver critical services, standing up digital applications, services and processes at rapid scale (sometimes overnight) to support the mission. This moment in time has fundamentally changed how governments approach modernization, proving that digital transformation can happen rapidly. To sustain an agile, lasting approach to digital […]