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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for 12.2 and 19c
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports the July 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 and Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management announces new fleet monitoring enhancements
Today, AWS IoT is announcing the general availability of several new enhancements for AWS IoT Device Management. These new features will enable customers to better monitor characteristics of their fleet over time, diagnose connectivity issues, and perform aggregation queries to group devices across different values. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry adds support for Amazon ECS in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights and metrics support for AWS Lambda applications in Amazon Managed Prometheus (Preview)
Today, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) adds support for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) metrics running on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights (preview), enabling customers to easily collect container metrics and analyze them along with other metrics in Amazon CloudWatch. You can also collect AWS Lambda application metrics and send them […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager enables additional application management capabilities
Application Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now supports additional features that help customers to easily manage their applications end-to-end, without switching consoles. With this release, IT professionals can edit application and resource tags, and invoke appropriate runbooks based on the application type, all within the Application Manager console. Read More for the details.
GCP – TIM Group chooses Cloud SQL over Oracle to power its billing apps
Editor’s note: In this blog, we look at how TIM Group, a leading information and communication technology (ICT) company in Italy and Brazil, used Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL to deliver a new billing application and saw 45% savings in database maintenance and infrastructure costs. In early 2020, TIM Group set out to solve a common […]
Azure – Run Commands for Azure VMware Solution now in public preview
Run commands are a collection of PowerShell packages available in the Azure VMware Solution portal that simplify the execution of certain operations on vCenter. With this announcement your cloud administrator can now more easily run management tasks that require elevated privileges. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Today we announced Dynamic Partitioning in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. With Dynamic Partitioning, you can continuously partition streaming data in Kinesis Data Firehose using keys within data like “customer_id” or “transaction_id” and deliver data grouped by these keys into corresponding Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) prefixes, making it easier for you to run high […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports additional deployment capabilities to meet DevOps and organizational requirements
When you deploy SAP applications with AWS Launch Wizard it now saves the CloudFormation templates and application configuration code in your S3 buckets and creates an AWS Service Catalog product when deployment is complete. This allows you to leverage Launch Wizard-generated infrastructure as code to repeat deployments with identical configuration, or customize them to meet […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup Offline backup with Azure Data Box
The capability to seed large initial Microsoft Azure Recovery Services (MARS) backups offline to recovery services vault using Azure Data Box is now generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Functions support for Node 6 is ending on 28 February 2022
Functions App support for Node 6 apps is ending on 28 February 2022, we recommend you upgrade to Node 14. Read More for the details.