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Azure – General availability: Soft delete for Azure file shares is now on by default for new storage accounts
Soft delete, which protects Azure file shares from accidental deletion, is now on by default for new storage accounts created after January 31st. Read More for the details.
GCP – Improved troubleshooting with Cloud Spanner introspection capabilities
Excellent developer experience is one of the most important focus areas for Cloud Spanner, Google’s fully managed horizontally scalable relational database service. Whether you are a database specialist or a developer, it is important to have tools that help you understand the performance of your database, detect if something goes wrong, and fix the problems. […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Persistent Digital Bank and Credit Union Solution
Persistent Digital Bank and Credit Union Solution (PDBCUS) is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Persistent Systems, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. PDBCUS will enable you to deploy new digital banking capabilities including customer onboarding, digital deposits, loan account opening, and automated credit decisioning. Customers that request this consulting […]
AWS – AWS CloudHSM Adds New Availability Zones
Today, AWS CloudHSM launched service in additional Availability Zones (AZs) in US East (N. Virginia), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) to support high demand from our growing customer base. Read More for the details.
GCP – 6 best practices for effective Cloud NAT monitoring
For anyone building distributed applications, Cloud Network Address Translation (NAT) is a powerful tool: with it, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads can access internet resources in a scalable and secure manner, without exposing the workloads running on them to outside access using external IPs. Cloud NAT features a proxy-less design, implementing NAT […]
GCP – Location intelligence: the new frontier for data-driven success
At Google, we’ve spent more than 15 years mapping the world and exploring the ways it can help businesses of all kinds do more, from tailoring customer experiences to optimizing processes across the enterprise. Its applications are endless, spanning marketing, workforce management, logistics, and even fraud detection. That’s why we’re excited to share Unlocking Value […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
Today, we are announcing the Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle, a flexible self-service pricing plan that helps you save up to 30% on your CloudFront bill in exchange for a monthly spend commitment for a 1-year term. The savings bundle also includes free AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) usage up to 10% of your committed […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn bare metal instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC/ML workloads. are generally available. Amazon EC2 bare metal instances provide your applications with direct access to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying […]
AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – AWS Data Streaming Solution for Amazon MSK adds a template for you to read events and store data to Amazon S3 from a streaming application
The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK, an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This update adds a template that accelerates development of streaming data workloads by reducing the need for you to […]
Azure – Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview
Applications can now create append blobs in addition to block blobs in Azure Data Lake Storage accounts and append to them using Append Block operations. Applications that need to add information to existing files efficiently and continuously can leverage append blobs. Read More for the details.