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AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Lex
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate calls to Amazon Lex V2 APIs from within your VPC and without using public IPs or exposing your traffic to public […]
Azure – Azure Ultra Disk Storage is now generally available in West US 3
Now available in West US 3 region, Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most-demanding workloads such as SAP HANA and top tier databases. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports Attribute-based access controls (ABAC)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports Attribute-based access control (ABAC) for API actions including Publish and PublishBatch. ABAC is an authorization strategy that defines access permissions based on tags which can be attached to IAM resources, such as IAM users and roles, and to AWS resources, like Amazon SNS topics, to simplify permission […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer makes it easier to optimize by leveraging multiple EC2 instance architectures
Today, AWS Compute Optimizer launches a new capability that makes it easier for customers to optimize their EC2 instances by leveraging multiple CPU architectures. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing real-time collaborative notebooks with EMR Studio
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today we are excited to announce that data scientists, engineers, and analysts can collaborate in real-time across teams using EMR Studio. […]
GCP – Want multi-cluster Kubernetes without all the cost and overhead? Here’s how
Editor’s note: Today, we hear from Mengliao Wang, Senior Software Developer, Team Lead at Geotab, a leading provider of fleet management hardware and software solutions. Read on to hear how the company is expanding on their adoption of Google Cloud to deliver new services for their customers by leveraging Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) multi-cluster features. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports New Minor Versions 5.7.36, and 8.0.27
Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.7 and 8.0, we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to support MySQL minor versions 5.7.36, and 8.0.27. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous […]
GCP – Serverless vs fully managed: What’s the difference?
When you decide to build an application in the cloud one of the first questions that you have to ask yourself is – will your application be built using serverless or fully managed services in the cloud. These terms are a bit loose and can sometimes overlap or be used interchangeably. In this article let […]
Azure – Azure Backup – Automation updates – 2021
Summary of key automation updates for Azure Backup in 2021 Read More for the details.
GCP – A migration story: How NCR & Opus delivered Card Management to Google Cloud
Migrating legacy systems to the cloud can be challenging for large enterprises. However, migration to the cloud also ensures higher performance, scalability, and availability in the long run. This blog highlights the collaboration between NCR Corporation and Opus Consulting Solutions and their success story of effectively migrating their Card Management Solution (NCR Authentic Cards), to […]