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GCP – Announcing the Government & Education Summit, Nov 3-4, 2021
Mark your calendars – registration is open for Google Cloud’s Government and Education Summit, November 3–4, 2021. Government and education leaders have seen their vision become reality faster than they ever thought possible. Public sector leaders embraced a spirit of openness and created avenues to digital transformation, accepting bold ideas and uncovering new methods to […]
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Grafana with SAML 2.0 and Grafana v8.0 features
Amazon Managed Grafana is now generally available. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed, secure data visualization service that enables customers to query, correlate, and visualize operational metrics, logs, and traces for their applications across multiple data sources. Developed in collaboration with Grafana Labs, Amazon Managed Grafana manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of […]
GCP – Deploying a Cloud Spanner-based Node.js application
Cloud Spanner is Google’s fully managed, horizontally scalable relational database service. Customers in financial services, gaming, retail and many other industries trust it to run their most demanding workloads, where consistency and availability at scale are critical. In this blog post, we illustrate how to build and deploy a Node.js application on Cloud Spanner using […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements
Today, AWS IoT is announcing the general availability of several new enhancements for AWS IoT Device Management. These new features will enable customers to better monitor characteristics of their fleet over time, diagnose connectivity issues, and perform aggregation queries to group devices across different values. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)
Today, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) metrics running on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights (preview), enabling customers to easily collect container metrics and analyze them along with other metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can also collect AWS Lambda application metrics and send them […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports additional features that help customers to easily manage their applications end-to-end, without switching consoles. With this release, IT professionals can edit application and resource tags, and invoke appropriate runbooks based on the application type, all within the Application Manager console. Read More for the details.
GCP – TIM Group chooses Cloud SQL over Oracle to power its billing apps
Editor’s note: In this blog, we look at how TIM Group, a leading information and communication technology (ICT) company in Italy and Brazil, used Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to deliver a new billing application and saw 45% savings in database maintenance and infrastructure costs. In early 2020, TIM Group set out to solve a common […]
Azure – Run Commands for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
Run commands are a collection of PowerShell packages available in the Azure VMware Solution portal that simplify the execution of certain operations on vCenter. With this announcement your cloud administrator can now more easily run management tasks that require elevated privileges. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Today we announced Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. With Dynamic Partitioning, you can continuously partition streaming data in Kinesis Data Firehose using keys within data like “customer_id” or “transaction_id” and deliver data grouped by these keys into corresponding Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) prefixes, making it easier for you to run high […]