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AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector is now in scope for AWS SOC Reports
Amazon Fraud Detector is now in scope for AWS SOC 1 , SOC 2, and SOC 3 reports. You can now use Amazon Fraud Detector in applications requiring audited evidence of the controls in our System and Organization Controls (SOC) reporting. For example, if you use AWS to detect fraud and abuse, you can use […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for VARBYTE data type
Amazon Redshift has launched support for the VARBYTE data type. VARBYTE is a variable size data type for storing and representing variable-length binary strings. With this announcement, Amazon Redshift can now support variable length binary data for use with core Amazon Redshift features, SQL UDFs and SQL DDL for creating VARBYTE columns in tables. VARBYTE(n) syntax gives […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces preview of Automated Materialized View
Automated Materialized View (AutoMV) for Amazon Redshift helps lower query latency for repeatable workloads like dashboard queries minimizing the effort for manually creating and managing materialized views. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports Time Travel, an improved logging mechanism
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) expands its functionality by introducing Time Travel, a feature granting customers flexibility on their logging capabilities and enhancing their troubleshooting experience. With Time Travel, you can store and encrypt AWS DMS logs using Amazon S3, and view, download and obfuscate the logs within a certain time frame. Time Travel help […]
GCP – Introduction to Google Cloud’s operations suite
You know the time when you want to see how your cloud deployment is behaving or if something is broken in production and your users might be impacted. You are scrambling because there are too many tools to look through to find and resolve the issue. That’s where Google Cloud’s operations suite comes in. Click […]
GCP – Anthos makes multi-cloud easier with new API, support for Azure
One of the main reasons organizations adopt Anthos is to simplify the management of Kubernetes-based applications across a variety of clouds. And now, with our latest release, we’ve made multi-cloud management even easier with the general availability of the Anthos Multi-Cloud API. In addition, in this latest release, Support for Anthos clusters1 running on Azure […]
GCP – Unlocking opportunities with data transformation
One of the biggest challenges data executives have today is turning the immense amount of information that their organization, customers and partners — or rather their whole ecosystem — are creating into a competitive advantage. In my role here at Google Cloud, I specialize in everything data — from analytics, to business intelligence, data science […]
AWS – Announcing Extended Maintenance Plan for FreeRTOS
Today, we are announcing Extended Maintenance Plan for FreeRTOS – a real-time operating system for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS Extended Maintenance Plan (EMP) allows embedded developers to receive critical bug fixes and security patches on their chosen FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) version for up to 10 years beyond the expiry of the initial LTS period. FreeRTOS […]
AWS – AWS and partners of the Open 3D Foundation announce the first Stable release of Open 3D Engine
Today, AWS and the Open 3D Foundation (O3DF) announced the first stable release of Open 3D Engine (O3DE), an Apache 2.0 licensed multi-platform 3D engine that enables developers to build AAA games, cinema-quality 3D worlds for video production, and simulations for non-gaming use-cases unencumbered by licensing fees or commercial terms. Since the formation of O3DF […]
Azure – Public preview: FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs for Azure Virtual Desktop
Create an Azure Files share to store FSLogix profiles and configure it to support Azure AD authentication. Read More for the details.