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GCP – Eventarc brings eventing to Cloud Run and is now GA
Back in October, we announced the public preview of Eventarc, as new eventing functionality that lets developers route events to Cloud Run services. In a previous post, we outlined more benefits of Eventarc: a unified eventing experience in Google Cloud, centralized event routing, consistency with eventing format, libraries and an ambitious long term vision. Today, […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports in-place upgrades from PostgreSQL 11 to 12
Starting today, you can perform an in-place upgrade of your Amazon Aurora database cluster from PostgreSQL major version 11 to 12. Instead of backing up and restoring the database to the new version, you can upgrade with just a few clicks in the Amazon RDS Management Console or by using the AWS SDK or CLI. […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 12
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports major version 12. PostgreSQL 12 includes better index management, improved partitioning capabilities, and the ability to execute JSON path queries per SQL/JSON specifications. It also enables nondeterministic collations that support case-insensitive and accent-insensitive comparisons for ICU provided collations, most common-value statistics for improved query plans, creation of generated […]
Azure – Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement
Today, we are announcing the retirement of the Azure Service Fabric Mesh public preview. New deployments will no longer be available but we will continue to support existing deployments until April 28, 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Marketplace announces support for multiple Private Marketplace catalogs
Today, AWS Marketplace announced support for multiple Private Marketplace catalogs, which allows customers to create unique sets of approved software available in AWS Marketplace for different AWS accounts within their organization. Before today, customers were limited to one Private Marketplace catalog per AWS account structure. This launch expands AWS Marketplace’s Private Marketplace functionality to empower […]
GCP – Introducing Sqlcommenter: An open source ORM auto-instrumentation library
Object-relational mapping(ORM) helps developers to write queries using an object-oriented paradigm, which integrates naturally with application code in their preferred programming language. Many full-stack developers rely on ORM tools to write database code in their applications, but since the SQL statements are generated by the ORM libraries, it can be harder for application developers to […]
GCP – Boost your query performance troubleshooting skills with Cloud SQL Insights
Diagnosing and troubleshooting performance issues in an application can be difficult and time-consuming, particularly when a database is involved. Developers often have to rely on multiple, hard to use tools to identify and diagnose issues. Cloud SQL Insights, currently available for CloudSQL for PostgreSQL, is a new feature that provides developers with a single UI […]
GCP – Database observability for developers: introducing Cloud SQL Insights
Today we are excited to announce Cloud SQL Insights, a simple, open tool that helps developers quickly understand and resolve database performance issues on Cloud SQL. We designed Insights using open standards, with world-class visualizations and with modern architectures such as microservices in mind. We want all database customers to make the most of their […]
GCP – Introducing VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
Enterprises are accelerating their digital transformation—moving more and more workloads to the cloud. The cloud can often be complex, however, with unfamiliar tools to manage and operate large fleets of virtual machines (VM). In particular, managing infrastructure security and compliance visibility at cloud scale can be challenging for infrastructure and operations administrators. Customers tell us […]
GCP – Bare Metal Solution: new regions, new servers, and new certifications
Not a lot of things are certain in 2021, but one thing you can count on is Google Cloud’s commitment to our customers and to being a leader in open cloud. Supporting multiple workloads and meeting customers where they are is part of that open cloud commitment—and so is Bare Metal Solution, our solution to […]