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GCP – What is Cloud SQL?
If you are building an application, chances are you will need a relational database for transaction processing. That’s where Cloud SQL comes in. It is a fully managed relational database for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL Server. It reduces maintenance cost and automates database provisioning, storage capacity management, backups and out of the box High availability […]
GCP – Staying Ahead of New Regulations in APAC
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen our customers across the globe increase their use of cloud services, in large part due to an increase in e-commerce activities, digitization efforts, and the move to remote work. This shift has put further emphasis on the importance of security and control in cloud computing. Cloud […]
GCP – How Lowe’s SRE reduced its mean time to recovery (MTTR) by over 80 percent
Editor’s Note: In a previous blog, we discussed how home improvement retailer Lowe’s was able to increase the number of releases it supports by adopting Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) framework on Google Cloud. Lowe’s went from one release every two weeks to 20+ releases daily, helping meet its customer needs faster and more effectively. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports MSDTC JDBC XA for SQL Server 2017 CU16+ and SQL Server 2019
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports MSDTC JDBC XA transactions. With MSDTC you can either execute the transaction using SQL Server as the Transaction manager using linked servers, or you can promote MSDTC running on the same host as the Client application to the role of Transaction manager. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure App Service support for Availability Zones reaches general availability
This new feature provides high availability for web applications to enhance business continuity and support disaster recovery strategies. Read More for the details.
AWS – Cross-account event discovery for Amazon EventBridge schema registry
Amazon EventBridge schema registry now supports discovery of cross-account events published to an event bus. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure – or schema – in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus […]
AWS – New full-text search non-string indexing capabilities for Amazon Neptune
Amazon Neptune now supports searching on new data types, such as numbers and dates, in addition to strings when using the full-text search integration with Elasticsearch. This improvement allows Neptune customers to replicate non-string values into an Elasticsearch cluster, such as provided by the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, to run Gremlin or SPARQL queries searching on […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Files supports storage capacity reservations for premium, hot, and cool tiers
Storage capacity reservations for Azure Files enable you to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership of storage by pre-committing to storage utilization. To achieve the lowest costs in Azure, you should consider reserving capacity for all production workloads. Read More for the details.
Azure – SMB Multichannel for Azure Files is generally available
Server Message Block (SMB) Multichannel enables you to improve the IO performance of your SMB client 2-4x, increasing performance and decreasing total cost of ownership. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Files now supports SMB 3.1.1
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.1.1 is the most secure and highly performant version of SMB. With SMB 3.1.1 support for Azure Files, you now can require AES-256-GCM for Windows 10, version 21H1 and newer clients. Read More for the details.