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AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Config console streamlines resource configuration and compliance management
We’ve updated the AWS Config console to make it more efficient for you to track your AWS resource configuration changes, and monitor your AWS Config rule and conformance packs compliance. The new AWS Config console experience now includes features, such as Advanced Query, Aggregators, and resource configuration and compliance timeline pages. Read More for the […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Transfer Family support for Amazon Elastic File System
AWS Transfer Family now supports file transfers for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems, enabling AWS Transfer Family customers to easily and securely provide their business partners and end customers access to files stored in Amazon EFS file systems for use cases such as data distribution, supply chain workflows, content management, and web […]
AWS – Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services MySQL JDBC Driver – now in preview
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java (JDBC) Driver for MySQL is now available in preview. This open source database driver helps applications take advantage of clustered databases, such as Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility, reducing failover times from minutes to seconds. Read More for the details.
Azure – Built-in Azure Policy support for NSG Flow Logs is now available
Network security group (NSG) Flow Logs can now be deployed and managed using built-in Azure policies. You don’t need to write your own policies to manage NSG Flow Log deployments. Read More for the details.
GCP – The Magic Of Distributed Joins in Cloud Spanner
Cloud Spanner is a relational database management system and as such it supports the relational join operation. Joins in Spanner are complicated by the fact that all tables and indexes are sharded into splits. Every split of a table or index is managed by a specific server and in general each server is responsible for […]
GCP – Behind the scenes of Cloud Spanner’s ExecuteQuery request
This post is going to shed some light on the magic that happens when an application executes a query against Cloud Spanner. How does Spanner take an arbitrary SQL statement, locate the data, and return the response in milliseconds? We will take some of the concepts described inSIGMOD’17 paper and explain, step by step, how […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds support for AWS Glue DataBrew jobs to prepare data in analytics and machine learning workflows
You can now include AWS Glue DataBrew data preparation jobs in your workflows created using AWS Step Functions. This saves you time and allows you to orchestrate cleaning and data normalization steps into your analytics and machine learning workflows. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now allows to define 40 instance types when defining Mixed Instances Policy
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports using up to 40 instance types with mixed instances policies. This doubles the number of instance types you can specify. Previously, you could only specify 20 instance types. Now, you can specify up to 40 instance types when you first create an Auto Scaling group, and when you update […]
AWS – Amazon CloudSearch announces updates to its search instances
Amazon CloudSearch has updated the existing search instances with new instances that provide better availability and performance at the same pricing. The new instances are one to one replacements, but leverage newer generation EC2 instances underneath, thereby improving the overall stability of your domain. Read More for the details.