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Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA: Soft limit increased from 2 TB to 8 TB
Now you can protect larger SAP HANA DBs (such as Mv2 – 12 TB RAM machines) with the enhanced data transfer capabilities from Azure Backup. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon VPC Endpoints for AWS CloudHSM
You can now access AWS CloudHSM service APIs from your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) using VPC endpoints. Amazon VPC endpoints are easy to configure and provide reliable connectivity to AWS CloudHSM service APIs without requiring an internet gateway or a Network Address Translation (NAT) instance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Databricks Achieves DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Microsoft Azure Government
DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) on Azure Government further validates security and compliance for Azure Databricks. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerating IoT device deployment with Google Cloud and Arm Mbed OS
For IoT to be successful and scale, IoT devices need to seamlessly communicate the data they capture to cloud services, where any additional compute capabilities cloud vendors provide can efficiently analyse the data and unlock business value. In this blog, we highlight how Mbed OS and Google Cloud IoT Core together provide developers with quick […]
GCP – Supporting the Python ecosystem
Python is critically important to both Google Cloud and our customers. It serves as a popular runtime for many of our hosted services, from the launch of App Engine more than a decade ago, to modern serverless products like Cloud Functions. We use the Python Package Index (PyPI) to distribute hundreds of client libraries and […]
GCP – Application modernization isn’t easy. But we can make it easier.
Migrating and modernizing your application and moving to the Cloud can be a really fun and interesting challenge. You can learn a lot through looking at solutions and architectures. But, If anyone tells you that migrating applications is “easy”, you probably stop listening immediately. The tools might be easy to use, but application migration is […]
GCP – Managing schema changes on Cloud Spanner using Liquibase
We’re very happy to announce that you can now use Liquibase’s open-source database devops library to manage and automate schema changes in Cloud Spanner. The availability of Liquibase Cloud Spanner extension beta version 1.0 brings all of Liquibase’s CI/CD benefits to Spanner. You can find the source and detailed information in GitHub here: cloudspannerecosystem/liquibase-spanner Supported […]
AWS – Amazon Lex is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon Lex, a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Amazon Lex provides the advanced deep learning functionalities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text, to […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream now offers cross table queries, query execution statistics, and more
Amazon Timestream has added new capabilities to its SQL query language to enable customers to gain deeper insights from their time series data by running cross table queries and queries with advanced time series functions. Starting today, customers can also gain more transparency into the query execution statistics, to better understand the cost and duration […]
GCP – Protect your Google Cloud spending with budgets
TL;DR: Budgets and alerts are probably the first step to staying on top of your Google Cloud costs. If you care about money, you should definitely set up a budget. In this post, I break down a budget and show how to set one up. Budgets and alerts fit well into the inform phase of […]