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AWS – Amazon RDS now supports T4g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g database (DB) instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. T4g DB instances offer up to 36% better price performance over comparable current generation x86-based T3 DB instances depending on the workload characteristics. Read More for the details.

GCP – Upgrade Postgres with pglogical and Database Migration Service
As many of you are probably aware, Postgres is ending long term support for version 9.6 in November, 2021. However, if you’re still using version 9.6, there’s no need to panic! Cloud SQL will continue to support version 9.6 for one more year after in-place major version upgrades becomes available. But if you would still […]

AWS – AWS IQ now supports AWS Certified experts and consulting firms located in the UK & France
AWS IQ now supports AWS Certified experts and consulting firms located in the UK & France. Quickly find, engage, & get help from experts and consulting firms in UK and France for on-demand work. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud announces new Cloud Digital Leader training and certification
You asked for it, we listened! Today we’re announcing the Cloud Digital Leader learning pathway, our first offering for business professionals that includes both training and certification. The Cloud Digital Leader learning pathway is designed to skill-up individuals and teams that work with technical Google Cloud practitioners so they can contribute to strategic cloud-related business […]

GCP – Network security threat detection – Comparison of analytics methods
Jaliesha is responsible for cybersecurity within the DevOps team at her cloud-native software service company – they call it DevSecOps. She has several requirements pressing down on her as their offering explodes in popularity and they take in their second round of VC funding: Meet compliance requirements for Intrusion Detection System and Intrusion Prevention System […]

AWS – Amazon RDS now supports X2g instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports AWS Graviton2-based X2g database (DB) instances for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. X2g DB instances offer double the memory per vCPU compared to R6g/R5 instances and the lowest cost per GiB of memory in Amazon RDS for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL databases. The X2g.16xl DB instance has 33% more memory than […]

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights adds account application auto-discovery and new health dashboard
Setting up monitoring and managing the health of your business applications is now even easier with the ability to discover the applications and resources in your account even without a Resource Group, automatically set up monitoring for them and see their health at a glance in a summary health dashboard presented when you complete setup […]

AWS – Announcing Build on AWS for Startups
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Build on AWS, a new offering from AWS Activate designed to help startups build their infrastructure on AWS in minutes. Build on AWS is a collection of infrastructure templates and reference architectures covering a wide variety of solutions curated specifically for startups. These solutions are built […]

GCP – Announcing Backup for GKE: the easiest way to protect GKE workloads
Organizations everywhere have been choosing to build on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), driven by benefits like higher developer productivity and lower infrastructure costs. And one of the fastest growing GKE architectures is the deployment of stateful workloads like relational databases, inside GKE containers. Stateful workloads have additional requirements over stateless workloads, including the need for […]
GCP – Announcing Filestore Enterprise, for your most demanding apps
As more organizations move to Google Cloud, they need to consider their storage architecture—particularly for applications that they plan to lift and shift. The fact is that many legacy applications can’t use cloud-based object storage like Cloud Storage, and instead require a file- or block-based offering. Today, we’re announcing Filestore Enterprise, a fully managed cloud-native […]