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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.
AWS – FreeRTOS includes pre-configured projects for software emulations of microcontroller cores using QEMU open source emulator
FreeRTOS now includes pre-configured projects that emulate real microcontroller (MCU) cores in software using the QEMU open source emulator. Running FreeRTOS in an emulator makes it easier to test applications using the actual binary code that will run on your MCU device, without having physical access to the MCU device. MCU emulations reduce development time […]
Azure – Azure Health Bot is now generally available
Moving Microsoft Healthcare Bot to Azure and empowering organizations to deliver even better care for patients. Read More for the details.
Azure – Cross resource query between Azure Monitor and Azure Data Explorer in public preview
Azure Monitor cross resource query enables you to run cross-resource queries by using client tools that support Kusto queries. Read More for the details.
Azure – Activity Log Alerts – Change in “Description” property in the alert payload now in development
Starting April 1, 2021, the fired alert property "Description“ will contain the alert rule description. A new property “Activity Log Event Description“ added to the Activity Log fired Alert payload that will replace the old property "Description“. Read More for the details.