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GCP – Service Directory is generally available: Simplify your service inventory
Enterprises are increasingly adopting a service-oriented approach to building applications, composing several different services that span multiple products and environments. For example, a typical deployment can include: Services on Google Cloud, fronted by load balancers Third-party services, such as Redis Services on-premises Services on other clouds As the number and diversity of services grows, it […]
GCP – Three ways tight integration makes logging and monitoring easier
Driving productivity of software development and delivery teams is critical for any organization. The six years of research by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) showcases the role easy-to-use tooling plays in driving this productivity and in turn a better work/life balance for the team. The research finds that highest performing teams are 1.5x more likely to have […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amplify Flutter, with new data and authentication support
Flutter support in AWS Amplify is now generally available (GA). Amplify is a set of tools and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, full-stack applications. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google for developing applications for Android and iOS from a single codebase. Amplify Flutter brings […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next generation, burstable general-purpose Amazon EC2 T3 instance types
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next-generation, burstable general-purpose Amazon EC2 T3 instance types, which provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to burst CPU usage however long is required. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports PCI DSS compliance to help you run payment processing workloads more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance to help you run payment processing workloads more easily. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive expands its automatic input failover capabilities
AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports additional automatic input failover conditions including black frame and audio loss detection. You can use automatic input failover to build highly resilient and redundant live streaming workflows on AWS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts adds a smaller storage tier
AWS Outposts now offers a 26 TB storage tier for Amazon S3 on Outposts. This new storage tier gives you flexibility to configure 26 TB of Amazon S3 storage alongside up to 11 TB of Amazon EBS on your AWS Outposts. This adds to the 48 TB and 96 TB tiers of S3 storage currently […]
Azure – Standard Load Balancer and IP addresses metadata now available through Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS)
Azure Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) is a mature REST API which offers metadata information regarding Networking, Storage, SKU and etc. We are now adding Load Balancer related information to the list of metadata IMDS covers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Direct Connect Announces Native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections at Select Locations
AWS Direct Connect now offers native 100 Gbps Dedicated Connections to support your private connectivity needs to the cloud. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EKS clusters now support user authentication with OIDC compatible identity providers
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) now supports using OpenID Connect (OIDC) compatible identity providers as a user authentication option to Kubernetes clusters. With OIDC authentication, you can manage user access to EKS clusters by using the standard procedures in your organization for creating, enabling, and disabling employee accounts. Read More for the details.