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GCP – Data Fusion SAP accelerator for Procure 2 Pay
Earlier this year, we announced SAP Integration with Cloud Data Fusion, Google Cloud’s native data integration platform to seamlessly move data out of SAP Business Suite, SAP ERP, and S4/HANA. This was followed by the release of our accelerator for SAP Order to Cash which simplifies integrating SAP Order to Cash data into BigQuery and […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 in Asia Pacific (Osaka)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) in Asia Pacific (Osaka) now offers export of snapshot data to Amazon S3 in Apache Parquet format, an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics. The Parquet format is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to text formats. The […]

AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides performance and capacity metrics in Amazon CloudWatch
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now provides metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, enabling you to monitor and alarm on performance and storage usage metrics for your file systems and volumes. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor now integrates with AWS Security Hub
Today, AWS Trusted Advisor adds 111 checks automatically ingested from AWS Security Hub‘s Foundational Security Best Practices. You can find the full list of Security Hub checks here. Read More for the details.

Azure – Scheduled Query Rules API preview version 2021-02-01 will be retired on 31 January 2022
Transition to Scheduled Query Rules API version 2021-08-01 before 31 January 2022. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Kubernetes support for upgrade events
Azure Kubernetes (AKS) now supports several new upgrade events to help customers understand and view their upgrade status in the portal or via the CLI. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Panorama is now available in Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore)
AWS Panorama is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Containerd support for Windows in AKS
You can now run Windows workloads on containerd in AKS Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: FIPS enabled node pool in Azure Kubernetes
You can now create FIPS 140-2 enabled node pools in AKS Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Ultra disks support on AKS
Data intensive AKS workloads can now take advantage of Azure ultra disks. Read More for the details.