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AWS – Amazon EBS Snapshots introduces a new tier, Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, to reduce the cost of long-term retention of EBS Snapshots by up to 75%
Starting today, you can use Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive, a new tier for EBS Snapshots, to save up to 75% on storage costs for EBS Snapshots that you intend to retain for more than 90 days and rarely access. EBS Snapshots are incremental, storing only the changes since the last snapshot and making them cost […]
AWS – Recover from accidental deletions of your snapshots using Recycle Bin
Starting today, you can use Recycle Bin for EBS Snapshots to recover from accidental snapshot deletions to meet your business continuity needs. Previously, if you accidentally deleted a snapshot, you would have to roll back to a snapshot from an earlier point in time, increasing your recovery point objective. With Recycle Bin, you can specify […]
Azure – General availability: Secure Data Egress via Managed Identity in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central now supports System Assigned Managed Identity allowing you to configure secure data exports. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Competency Program differentiates AWS Partners with Energy Industry Expertise
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we are committed to supporting the global energy industry in safely meeting the energy demands the world needs today, while accelerating their transition to a more balanced and sustainable energy future. During re:invent’s Global Partner Summit Keynote on November 29th in Las Vegas, AWS announced the new AWS Energy Competency […]
AWS – Introducing the AWS Graviton Ready Program
We are excited to announce the new AWS Graviton Ready Program for AWS Partners with software products that support AWS Graviton-based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. As customers adopt AWS Graviton-based instances to realize the best price performance in Amazon EC2, they need the right software solutions to help integrate, deploy, monitor, and secure their […]
Azure – General availability: VPN Gateway NAT
Azure VPN Gateway NAT (Network Address Translation) can be used to connect on-premises networks or branch offices to an Azure virtual network with overlapping IP addresses. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Wildcard listener on Application Gateways
Application Gateway now supports wildcard characters for multi-site listeners. Read More for the details.
GCP – Want to supercharge your DevOps practice? Research says try SRE
Reliability matters. When users can’t access your application, if it’s slow to respond, or it behaves unexpectedly, they don’t get the value that you intend to provide. That’s why at Google we like to say that reliability is the most important feature of any system. Its impact can be seen all the way to the […]
GCP – Getting started with the Security Foundations Blueprint automation repo
By now, you may have already read through our previous blog posts covering the Security Foundations Blueprint and perused the security foundations guide. If you did, then the next question you might ask is how you could put these blueprints to use for your Google Cloud infrastructure and benefit from all of these security-focused best […]
AWS – AWS Ground Station launches expanded support for Software Defined Radios in Preview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) support for Software Defined Radios (SDRs) to help customers downlink more data in less time, saving cost. AWS Ground Station currently supports SDRs for narrowband (less than 54MHz), but in the past did not support SDRs for wideband (greater than 54Mhz). Expanding SDR support to […]