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AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it easier to relate a user’s IAM role activity to their corporate identity
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now provides the ability to easily identify the user responsible for an AWS action performed while assuming an IAM role. By setting the new source identity attribute, which gets logged in AWS CloudTrail for most actions, you can easily find out who is responsible for actions performed using IAM […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, and 9.5.25
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions 13.2, 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, 9.6.21, and 9.5.25. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and contains bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. This also includes the final release of PostgreSQL 9.5. […]
AWS – AWS Batch increases job scheduling and EC2 instance scaling performance
AWS Batch has increased a variety of performance characteristics, including job scheduling speed for EC2 Compute Environments, EC2 instance scaling reactivity, and most AWS Batch APIs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds new Cloudwatch Metrics
Today we are announcing the availability of two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS). You can use these metrics to monitor the performance of your live streams. The new ConcurrentStreams metric provides a count of your channels which are streaming live and the new ConcurrentViews metric provides the number of […]
AWS – Updated classroom course: Systems Operations on AWS
We are excited to announce the launch of our updated three-day classroom course, Systems Operations on AWS. This course helps you build and demonstrate your skills in configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting your AWS environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure IoT Central new and updated features—March 2021
March updates include jobs, data export, monitoring, and documentation improvemnets. Read More for the details.
GCP – Optimizing object storage costs in Google Cloud: location and classes
Storage is a critical component of any cloud-based infrastructure. Without a place to store and serve your data, databases won’t work, compute can’t run, and networks have nowhere to put the data they’re carrying. Storage is one of the top three cloud expenses for many customers, and most companies’ storage needs are only growing. It’s […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation Modules now Provides YAML and Delimiter Support
AWS CloudFormation Modules encapsulate one or more AWS resources and their respective properties for reuse across your organization. Modules make it simple to use the specific resources you need, while keeping resource configurations aligned with organizational best practices. You can now create YAML-formatted Modules in your CloudFormation templates. YAML-formatted Modules follow the same anatomy as […]
GCP – Continuous migration to Cloud SQL for terabyte-scale databases with minimal downtime
When Broadcom completed its Symantec Enterprise Security Business acquisition in late 2019, the company made a strategic decision to move its Symantec workloads to Google Cloud, including its Symantec Endpoint Security Complete product. This is the cloud-managed SaaS version of Symantec’s endpoint protection, which provides protection, detection and response capabilities against advanced threats at scale […]
GCP – Broadcom improves customer threat protection with flexible data management
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Padmanabh Dabke, Senior Director of Data Analytics and Zander Lichstein, Technical Director and Architect for GCP Migration at Broadcom. They share how Google Cloud helped them modernize their data analytics infrastructure to simplify their operations, lower support and infrastructure costs and greatly improve the robustness of their data analytics ecosystem. […]