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AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches a new Edge location in Indonesia
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through the new AWS edge location in Jakarta, Indonesia. Using Global Accelerator, users in Indonesia can now see improved performance of up to 20% for internet traffic to the AWS Singapore Region and up to 60% for traffic to AWS Regions in North America and Europe. Global Accelerator is […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports Event Subscriptions
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data at scale. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google and the National Science Foundation expand access to cloud resources
As part of our commitment to ensuring more equitable access to computing power and training resources, Google Cloud will contribute research credits and training to projects funded through a new initiative by the National Science Foundation (NSF) called the computer and information science and engineering Minority-Serving Institutions Research Expansion (CISE-MSI) program. This program seeks to […]
GCP – Devices and zero trust
In a zero trust environment, every device has to earn trust in order to be granted access. When determining whether access should be granted, the security system relies on device metadata, such as what software is running or when the OS was last updated, and checks to see if the device meets that organization’s minimum […]
Azure – Wire Data 2.0 (preview) will be retired on 31 March 2022
Because Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights and Service Map both provide network connection data sets in Logs, utilize the Dependency agent, and have connections with Azure Sentinel, we will be retiring Wire Data 2.0 (preview) on 31 March 2022. Please transition to using Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights or Service Map by that date. Read More […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Step Functions’ integration with Amazon EMR on EKS
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon EMR on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), making it easier to integrate Apache Spark based jobs into your analytics pipeline. You can now build workflows including steps to manage EMR on EKS virtual clusters and submit jobs without writing code to manage the state of the […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer external tables
Create an external table located in Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Store Gen1, or Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 to analyze and query your data. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Communication Services
Now you can use Azure Communication Services to add video, voice, SMS, chat, and telephony capabilities into almost any web, mobile, or desktop application. Read More for the details.
Azure – Backup for Azure Managed Disk is now generally available
Azure Disk Backup offers snapshot lifecycle management to Azure Managed Disk by automating periodic creation of snapshot and retain it for configured duration using Backup policy. Read More for the details.
Azure – Encryption scopes in Azure Storage now generally available
Encryption scopes enable you to provision multiple encryption keys to manage encryption at the container or blob level. Customers and ISVs can now use a single storage account for multi-tenancy scenarios by provisioning separate encryption keys for each customer. The key that protects an encryption scope may be either a Microsoft-managed key or a customer-managed key in Azure Key Vault. Read More for the details.