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AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights supports Oracle database monitoring
Now enterprises with Oracle databases can easily setup monitoring, alerting and dashboards for their EC2 and RDS Oracle instances on AWS with CloudWatch Application Insights. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps customers simply setup monitoring and enhanced observability for their enterprise applications running on AWS resources. The new feature automatically setups the metrics, […]
AWS – Introducing Federated Amazon EKS Clusters on AWS
Federated Amazon EKS Clusters on AWS is a new AWS Solutions Implementation that automates the deployment and federation of two Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters across multiple AWS Regions, configuring highly available, low latency, and easily scalable applications. Over the last few years, Kubernetes has gained an increasing popularity for automating application deployment, […]
GCP – Work at warp-speed in the BigQuery UI
Data analysts can spend hours writing SQL each day to get the right insights. So it’s crucial that the tools in the Google Cloud Console make that job as easy and as fast as possible. Now, we’re excited to show you how BigQuery’s Cloud Console UI has been updated with radical usability improvements for more […]
AWS – Announcing three new digital courses for Amazon S3
We’re excited to introduce three free digital courses that help you learn how to configure, optimize, secure, and audit your Amazon S3 implementation. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, these intermediate courses include reading modules, demonstrations, quizzes, and optional self-paced labs. The self-paced labs cost up to 15 USD per lab […]
AWS – PCI DSS compliance for AWS Wavelength
PCI Eligible AWS services deployed in AWS Wavelength can now store, process, or transmit cardholder data (CHD) or sensitive authentication data (SAD), including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers. PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standard Council. Many Wavelength use cases […]
GCP – Enforcing least privilege by bulk-applying IAM recommendations
Imagine this scenario: Your company has been using Google Cloud for a little while now. Things are going pretty well—no outages, no security breaches, and no unexpected costs. You’ve just begun to feel comfortable when an email comes in from a developer. She noticed that the project she works on has a service account with […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports pg_cron Extension for Scheduling Database Jobs
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL adds support for the pg_cron extension. Read More for the details.
Azure – Backup for Azure Managed Disk is in limited preview
Azure 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 – Azure Backup: Encryption at rest using customer-managed keys is now generally available
Encrypt your backups using customer-managed keys for more security and control. Read More for the details.
AWS – The graphical user interface of Porting Assistant for .NET is now open source
The graphical user interface of Porting Assistant for .NET is now available in open source. Users can now view, modify, and contribute to its source code. The Porting Assistant for .NET data store and analytics engine , which includes information such as package compatibility and their known replacements, is already available through open source. With […]