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GCP – What type of data processing organization are you?
Every organization has its own unique data culture and capabilities. Yet each is expected to use technology trends and solutions in the same way as everyone else. Your organization may be built on years of legacy applications, you may have developed a considerable amount of expertise and knowledge, yet you may be asked to adopt […]
GCP – Deployment models for the Cloud Spanner emulator
This is the first of a three-part series of blog posts, which together will form a solution guide for developers using the Cloud Spanner emulator. In this series, after a quick introduction to the Cloud Spanner emulator, we will explore the usage of the emulator with a Cloud Spanner sample application called OmegaTrade. We will […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon MSK Connect: Run serverless, scalable Kafka Connect clusters in Amazon MSK
Amazon MSK Connect is now available, enabling you to run fully managed Kafka Connect clusters with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK). With a few clicks, MSK Connect allows you to easily deploy, monitor, and scale connectors that move data in and out of Apache Kafka and Amazon MSK clusters from external systems […]
AWS – AWS CodeCommit is Now Available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS CodeCommit is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) region. AWS CodeCommit is a secure, highly scalable, managed source control service that hosts private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need for you to manage your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to store anything from code […]
AWS – AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow supports AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry
Starting today, customers can view their registered applications on AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry in their ServiceNow CMDB leveraging the AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow. Organizations are creating, migrating, and managing applications on AWS that are associated with multiple AWS resources. Customers define applications within AppRegistry by providing a name, description, and associations to the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports inference endpoint testing from SageMaker Studio
You can now get real-time inference results from your models hosted by Amazon SageMaker directly from Amazon SageMaker Studio. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports R5b instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports R5b database (DB) instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. R5b DB instances support up to 3x the I/O operations per second (IOPS) and 3x the bandwidth on Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) compared to the latest x86-based memory-optimized DB instances (R5) available in Amazon RDS for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. R5b […]
AWS – Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall Now Available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Today, we are pleased to announced that the Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is now generally available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. The Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall is a managed firewall that allows customers to block DNS queries made for known malicious domains and to allow queries for trusted domains. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database (DB) instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. T4g DB instances offer up to 36% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based T3 DB instances depending on the workload characteristics. Read More for the details.
GCP – Upgrade Postgres with pglogical and Database Migration Service
As many of you are probably aware, Postgres is ending long term support for version 9.6 in November, 2021. However, if you’re still using version 9.6, there’s no need to panic! Cloud SQL will continue to support version 9.6 for one more year after in-place major version upgrades becomes available. But if you would still […]