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GCP – The Dunant subsea cable, connecting the US and mainland Europe, is ready for service
We’re thrilled to say bonjour to the Dunant submarine cable system, which has been deployed and tested and is now ready for service. Crossing the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the U.S. and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast, the system expands Google’s global network to add dedicated capacity, diversity, and resilience, while enabling interconnection […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.2
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.2 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Batch Operations adds support for Delete Object Tagging
You can now perform S3 Delete Object Tagging operations using Amazon S3 Batch Operations to delete object tags across many objects with a single API request or a few clicks in the S3 Management Console. S3 Batch Operations lets you perform repetitive or bulk actions like copying objects or replacing tag sets across billions of […]
AWS – Amazon Macie announces a slew of new capabilities including support for cross-account sensitive data discovery, scanning by Amazon S3 object prefix, improved pre-scan cost estimation, and added location detail in findings
We are excited to announce a series of new capabilities that have been added to Amazon Macie to make it easier to configure, scope, and run sensitive data discovery in AWS, including support for scanning jobs that cover Amazon S3 buckets residing across multiple accounts, scoping of scans by object prefix, better cost estimation for […]
AWS – Insights is now generally available for AWS X-Ray
Today, AWS X-Ray launches Insights, which helps customers proactively discover issues in applications by using anomaly detection. X-Ray Insights enables developers and DevOps engineers to detect anomalies in fault rate for an application and then notify their teams on these issues and why it occurred. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink
Amazon S3 now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to S3 via a private endpoint within your virtual private network. Simplify your network architecture by connecting to S3 from on-premises or in AWS using private IP addresses in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), eliminating the need to use public IPs, configure firewall rules, or configure […]
AWS – AWS Console Mobile Application adds support for new regions
AWS Console Mobile Application users can now use Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Middle East (Bahrain), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town) regions on the Console mobile app. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics supports Amazon API Gateway in API blueprint
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics adds support to create canaries for your Amazon API Gateway APIs using the API blueprint. This simplifies your canary setup time and makes it easy to monitor your API Gateway APIs. Read More for the details.
GCP – What are my hybrid and multicloud deployment options with Anthos?
Anthos is a managed application platform that extends Google Cloud services and engineering practices to your environments so you can modernize apps faster and establish operational consistency across them. With Anthos, you can build enterprise-grade containerized applications faster with managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud, on-premises, and other cloud providers.. In this blog post, we outline […]
GCP – The cloud trust paradox: 3 scenarios where keeping encryption keys off the cloud may be necessary
As we discussed in “The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less” and hinted at in “Unlocking the mystery of stronger security key management,” there are situations where the encryption keys must be kept away from the cloud provider environment. While we argue that these are […]