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AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database Expands Availability to São Paulo and Stockholm
An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With today’s launch, the feature is available in the AWS Americas (São Paulo) and AWS Europe (Stockholm) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible edition supports simultaneous authentication with both Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Customers can now enable multiple authentications protocols at the same time for an Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition cluster. Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility supports both Kerberos authentication with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and IAM database authentication, but in the past you could choose only one for a given cluster. Now, Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility […]
Azure – HDInsight Apache Kafka REST Proxy is now generally available
Azure HDInsight Kafka REST proxy greatly simplifies messaging architecture patterns by allowing Kafka producers and consumers to be located outside the virtual network and enables working with unsupported languages. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Lower Cost Storage Classes for Amazon Elastic File System
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports single Availability Zone (AZ) storage classes (One Zone), reducing storage costs by 47% compared to Amazon EFS Standard storage classes, while maintaining the EFS capabilities that customers love. With this launch, you can achieve an effective storage price of $0.043/GB-month.[1] Read More for the details.
Azure – New Brazil Southeast region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available for Brazil South customers requiring scenario-based in-country disaster recovery. Read More for the details.
AWS – CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery now support EBS Local Snapshots on AWS Outposts
CloudEndure Migration and CloudEndure Disaster Recovery, services offered by AWS, now allow you to migrate, replicate, and recover applications from any source directly into AWS Outposts or between AWS Outposts devices, leading to lower latencies, better performance, and reduced costs. Previously, replicated data had to be transferred to and stored in a public AWS Region […]
Azure – Token lifecycle management is now in private preview
With this sprint update, we’re announcing Azure DevOps REST API support for personal access tokens that’s available now in private preview. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using Cloud Build to keep Airflow Operators up-to-date in your Composer environment
Before 2020, keeping your Airflow operators up to date meant either upgrading to the most recent version of Airflow, or bringing newer versions of the operators in as plugins. Now (if you’re using Airflow 1.10.6 or later), the latest versions of operators are packaged as PyPI modules that can be installed in your Airflow environment! […]
GCP – Hackathons aren’t just for programmers anymore
Companies and organizations all over the world hold hackathons to help their software developers sharpen skills, improve collaboration, cultivate creativity, and experiment with new ideas. But what about non-technical employees? Is coding ability a prerequisite to participating in hackathons and creating technical solutions? Thanks to no-code application development, the answer is no. Whereas non-technical employees […]
AWS – Introducing a new API allowing you to stop in-progress workflows in Amazon Forecast
Amazon Forecast uses machine learning (ML) to generate more accurate demand forecasts, without requiring any prior ML experience. Forecast brings the same technology used at Amazon.com to developers as a fully managed service, removing the need to manage resources or rebuild your systems. Read More for the details.