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AWS – Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
Amazon EventBridge schema registry now supports discovery of cross-account events published to an event bus. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure – or schema – in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus […]
AWS – New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune now supports searching on new data types, such as numbers and dates, in addition to strings when using the full-text search integration with Elasticsearch. This improvement allows Neptune customers to replicate non-string values into an Elasticsearch cluster, such as provided by the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, to run Gremlin or SPARQL queries searching on […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers
Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available
Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables you to improve the IO performance of your SMB client 2-4x, increasing performance and decreasing total cost of ownership. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most secure and highly performant version of SMB. With SMB 3.1.1 support for Azure Files, you now can require AES-256-GCM for Windows 10, version 21H1 and newer clients. Read More for the details.
GCP – Modernizing your serverless applications
Continuing innovation in serverless Google Cloud recently released a suite of resources designed to help customers modernize their serverless compute platform experience and upgrade to the latest features as well as newer products which may be a better fit for their workloads. The initial content is focused on users of the very first Cloud product, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL versions 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach […]
AWS – ACM Private CA now supports the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP)
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) announces the availability of Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for distributing certificate revocation information. When establishing an encrypted TLS connection, endpoints can use OCSP to query, in near real time, if a certificate has been revoked. Thus alerting the endpoint that the certificate should not be trusted. […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now HIPAA eligible and HITRUST certified
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data engineering and data science applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Read More for the details.
GCP – SAP HANA: A solution to memory error impacts
Every cloud system begins with high-quality hardware infrastructure. Sometimes, however, hardware breaks — and when it happens, our most important goal is to minimize the impact on our customers and their cloud workloads. Memory errors are the most common type of hardware failure, and they’re also one of the most challenging in terms of their […]