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AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew supports transformations for seven additional datatypes
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports seven additional numeric data types including Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Decimal. Customers can now cast columns in these in addition to Timestamp and Date data types. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)
Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney) regions. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo […]
Azure – New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM
You can now access AWS CloudHSM service APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to AWS CloudHSM service APIs without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerating IoT device deployment with Google Cloud and Arm Mbed OS
For IoT to be successful and scale, IoT devices need to seamlessly communicate the data they capture to cloud services, where any additional compute capabilities cloud vendors provide can efficiently analyse the data and unlock business value. In this blog, we highlight how Mbed OS and Google Cloud IoT Core together provide developers with quick […]
GCP – Supporting the Python ecosystem
Python is critically important to both Google Cloud and our customers. It serves as a popular runtime for many of our hosted services, from the launch of App Engine more than a decade ago, to modern serverless products like Cloud Functions. We use the Python Package Index (PyPI) to distribute hundreds of client libraries and […]
GCP – Application modernization isn’t easy. But we can make it easier.
Migrating and modernizing your application and moving to the Cloud can be a really fun and interesting challenge. You can learn a lot through looking at solutions and architectures. But, If anyone tells you that migrating applications is “easy”, you probably stop listening immediately. The tools might be easy to use, but application migration is […]
GCP – Managing schema changes on Cloud Spanner using Liquibase
We’re very happy to announce that you can now use Liquibase’s open-source database devops library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner. The availability of Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension beta version 1.0 brings all of Liquibase’s CI/CD benefits to Spanner. You can find the source and detailed information in GitHub here: cloudspannerecosystem/liquibase-spanner Supported […]