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GCP – Strengthen protection for your GCE VMs with new FIDO security key support
With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 almost two years ago, native support for FIDO authentication became an option in SSH. This meant that you could have your SSH private key protected in a purpose-built security key, rather than storing the key locally on a disk where it may be more susceptible to compromise. Building on […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner myths busted
Intro to Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner is an enterprise-grade, globally distributed, externally consistent database that offers unlimited scalability and industry-leading 99.999% availability. It requires no maintenance windows and offers a familiar PostgreSQL interface. It combines the benefits of relational databases with the unmatched scalability and availability of non-relational databases. As organizations modernize and simplify their […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds support for Amazon EKS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds metric collection support for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with AWS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Customers can now easily collect EKS Fargate metrics, such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, and analyze them along with other […]
GCP – Introducing Timeseries Insights API: real-time forecasting and anomaly detection over trillions of events
Businesses are awash in event-driven data, from customers visiting stores or submitting online queries to making purchases or triggering sensors. Leveraging this data for real-time forecasting and anomaly detection is critical to serving customers across changing needs and environments—but doing this kind of time-series analysis in real-time has often required bespoke solutions, saddling businesses with […]
Azure – Public preview: Cross region virtual machine restore points
Create restore points in any region and copy restore points from one region to another. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 25 regions, with the addition of the Africa (Cape Town) region. Read More for the details.
GCP – From your device to Google Cloud API: Networking basics
In this post we’ll look at some networking touchpoints that occur when you decide to access a Google Cloud API and build in the cloud environment. When you’re exploring Google Cloud, whether it’s via (Cloud SDK, Cloud Console, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool), one of the first things you’ll do is try to connect […]
Azure – In development: Price sheet download as a zip file
Price sheet download experience update for using Azure in a small business environment. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Automatically delete a VM and its associated resources simultaneously
You can now automatically delete disks, NICs, and Public IPs associated with a VM at the same time you delete the VM. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on RDS Management APIs
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the RDS Management APIs. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their APIs on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Read More for the details.
