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GCP – Why API-first is the best approach to application integration
Enterprises need to move faster than ever to gain a competitive advantage in today’s customer-focused environment. Time-to-market for products and services has shortened dramatically, from years to days. IT teams must move fast, react fast, and enable business strategies via constant innovation. All of this digital transformation is about more than adopting the latest technologies. […]
AWS – AWS Backint Agent now supports Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, sending log and data backups to separate folders, and Ansible
AWS Backint Agent now supports three new features: Amazon S3 Intelligent Tiering, the ability to send log and data backups to separate folders, and compatibility with Ansible. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute Direct locations available
ExpressRoute Direct gives you the ability to connect directly into Microsoft’s global network at peering locations strategically distributed around the world. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudFormation introduces the option to troubleshoot provisioning errors before rollback, accelerating deployments
AWS CloudFormation users can now choose to preserve the state of successfully deployed resources in the event of CloudFormation stack operation errors. Using this feature, you can retry the operation using an updated CloudFormation template and quickly iterate through feedback loops, shortening development cycles. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: New ExpressRoute peering locations available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: New Azure Batch capabilities
Several new pool and security features are now generally available. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 Image Builder supports Amazon EventBridge notifications
Now on EC2 Image Builder, customers can use events to trigger an image build schedule in their event-driven architectures. Integrate your image build schedule with your events from AWS services, our SaaS partners, and custom events, via Amazon EventBridge. You can also create rules for event patterns, such as listening for a specific variable, and […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13 in GovCloud Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 13 in GovCloud regions. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine, PowerCLI and BigQuery Analytics
Google Cloud Billing allows Billing Account Administrators to configure the export of Google Cloud billing data to a BigQuery dataset for analysis and intercompany billback scenarios. Developers may choose to extract Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) configuration and utilization data and apply internal cost and pricing data to create custom reports to support GCVE resource […]
GCP – New Cloud Functions min instances reduces serverless cold starts
Cloud Functions, Google Cloud’s Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, is a lightweight compute platform for creating single-purpose, standalone functions that respond to events, without needing an administrator to manage a server or runtime environment. Over the past year we have shipped many new important capabilities on Cloud Functions: new runtimes (Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP), […]