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AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Backup for Amazon S3, which adds Amazon S3 to the set of supported services in AWS Backup. This launch makes it easier for you to centrally automate backup and restore of your application data stored in Amazon S3 along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports Delayed Replication
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports delayed replication, allowing you to set a configurable time period by which a read replica lags behind the source database. In a standard MariaDB replication configuration, there is minimal replication delay between the source and the replica. With delayed replication, you can introduce an intentional […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family now supports login banners
Starting today, AWS Transfer Family servers can display customized messages, such as organizational policies or terms and conditions to your end users, helping you achieve your legal and compliance requirements. You can also present a customized Message of The Day (MOTD), such as a greeting message, to enhance user experience. For example, you can display […]
GCP – Choosing the right network architecture for your Apigee-fueled APIs
API gateways are a critical component of a modern architecture. Apigee X is Google Cloud’s API management platform. It also allows users of the legacy Apigee Edge product to leverage Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)products and features, like Cloud Armor and Load Balancers. With these new security and availability advantages come a new set of challenges. […]
GCP – Streaming data into BigQuery using Storage Write API
BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective data warehouse that customers love. Similarly, Dataflow is a serverless, horizontally and vertically scaling platform for large scale data processing. Many users use both these products in conjunction to get timely analytics from the immense volume of data a modern enterprise generates. To make sure that users […]
GCP – Google data experts share top data practitioner skills needed in 2022
It’s 2022 and nanosatellites, NFTs, and autonomous cars that deliver your pizza are in full force. In a world where people rely on simple technology to untangle complex problems, companies must deliver simple experiences to be successful in today’s landscape. For many cloud providers this means enabling tightly integrated data offerings that simplify the data […]
Azure – Public preview: Resource configuration changes
Resource configuration changes, a feature enabling the querying of changes to Azure resource configurations across subscriptions, management groups, and tenant, is now in public preview. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Amazon Redshift Cross-region data sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account and across accounts is already available. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different AWS Regions is […]
AWS – AWS introduces s2n-quic, a new open-source implementation of the QUIC protocol
We are pleased to announce the availability of s2n-quic, an open-source Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol, in our AWS encryption open-source libraries. We are also renaming s2n, AWS’s open-source C implementation of the TLS protocol, to s2n-tls. s2n-quic has an API that is designed to be fast and small, with simplicity as a priority. It […]
AWS – Introducing auto-adjusting budgets
Starting today, you can use AWS Budgets to create auto-adjusting budgets. An auto-adjusting budget dynamically sets your budget amount based on historical cost or usage over a time range that you specify. This reduces the guesswork in setting a budget limit and keeps you updated as your spend patterns change. Auto-adjusting budgets are generally available […]