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AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Grafana now supports Grafana Enterprise upgrade, Grafana version 7.5, Open Distro for Elasticsearch integration, and AWS Billing reports
Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG) is a fully managed service that manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana servers, eliminating the need for customers to do this themselves. Customers can now upgrade their AMG workspaces to Grafana Enterprise with a 30-day free trial via an AWS Marketplace subscription, enabling access to Enterprise […]
AWS – User Defined Functions (UDF) are now generally available for Amazon Athena
User Defined Functions (UDF), which enable users to apply custom operations to their data, are now generally available for Amazon Athena. While Athena provides a wide range of built-in functions, users can extend these capabilities with their own functions and use them directly within their queries. This allows users to address specific use cases, such […]
AWS – AWS Backup extends centralized backup management support for Amazon FSx to five additional AWS Regions
AWS Backup extends centralized backup management for Amazon FSx to AWS Europe (Milan), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can create, manage, and restore your Amazon FSx backups directly from AWS Backup. AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx file systems includes Amazon FSx for Windows File Server […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint is now FedRAMP High Compliant
Amazon Pinpoint is now authorized as FedRAMP High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. This service is also approved as Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 2 (DoD SRG IL-2) in this Region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Open source API Portal now generally available
API Portal is a no-code option to create, manage, and publish API documentation – for free. Read More for the details.
GCP – In case you missed it: All our free Google Cloud training opportunities from Q1
No-cost training opportunities remain a core part of how we help you build your cloud knowledge and showcase your cloud competencies. Since January, we’ve introduced a number of opportunities for you to grow your skills, and we wanted to bring them together into one handy resource so you don’t miss out. Join the Google Cloud […]
AWS – You can now use macros and transforms in CloudFormation templates to create AWS CloudFormation StackSets
AWS CloudFormation StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and Regions with a single operation. We are now announcing the support for CloudFormation Macros and transforms in templates that are used to create a stack set. AWS CloudFormation macros perform custom processing on […]
GCP – 5 cheat sheets to help you get started on you Google Cloud journey
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, and that’s where these cheat sheets come in handy. Cloud Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia has built a number of guides that help developers visually navigate critical decisions, whether it’s determining the best way to move to the cloud, or deciding on the best storage options. Below are […]
GCP – Tracking index backfill operation progress in Cloud Spanner
One of the cool things about Google Cloud Spanner, a horizontally scalable relational database, is that you can do an online schema update. Your database is never down for schema update operations. Cloud Spanner continues to serve data during ongoing schema updates. Imagine your application is querying data from a large table in the Cloud […]
Azure – General availability: Event source start options in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2
The new event source start options feature in Azure Time Series Insights Gen2 gives you flexibility when configuring an event source. Read More for the details.