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GCP – Stay informed by customizing your budgets
TL;DR: By default, budget alerts only go to Billing Account Administrators and Billing Account Users. You can easily add up to 5 more custom emails by using a Cloud Monitoring channel. Try to send to groups, not individuals! Budgets and alerts fit well into the inform phase of the FinOps lifecycle for visibility My last […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides disconnect reason for Voice Calls & Tasks
Amazon Connect CTR (contact trace records) stream now includes disconnect reason for Voice calls & Tasks. This will indicate whether an agent or customer disconnected the call, or whether a telecom or network issue caused a call to disconnect, or if a task was completed by an agent or flow. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports January 2021 Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the January 2021 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. January 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Control Tower now provides region selection
Today, we are announcing AWS Control Tower Region Selection, a new capability that provides you the ability to efficiently manage the geographical footprint of your AWS Control Tower resources. You can now select the additional Regions you would like AWS Control Tower to govern; providing you with the capabilities to address compliance and regulatory concerns […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads using AWS Graviton2
AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm-based workloads now run on AWS Graviton2 without any additional configuration. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Data flows in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse now support Reserved Instances
Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Azure Synapse Analytics (Synapse) now offer discounted pricing on data flows based on 1-year and 3-year reservations. Read More for the details.
GCP – What’s in a name? Understanding the Google Cloud network “edge”
Google is dedicated to building infrastructure that lets you modernize and run your workloads, and connect with more users, no matter where they are in the world. Part of this infrastructure is our extensive global network, which provides best-in-class connectivity to Google Cloud customers, and our edge network, which lets you connect with ISPs and […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Cognitive Services Translator releases nine new languages
Azure Cognitive Services Translator is releasing nine new languages for text translation: Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azeri, Khmer, Lao, Myanmar, Nepali, and Tigrinya. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Image Builder Service now generally available
Use Azure Image Builder to streamline your image building pipeline and integrate your DevOps application life-cycle with the cloud native tools. Read More for the details.
AWS – Support for KMS encryption on S3 buckets used by AWS Config
AWS Config now supports the ability to use an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key or alias Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that you provide, to encrypt the data delivered to your Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. By default, AWS Config delivers configuration history and snapshot files to your S3 bucket and encrypts the data […]