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GCP – MLB uses Google Cloud Smart Analytics platform to scale data insights
Though 2020 has been a year like no other, many sports fans can take comfort in the fact that one of America’s fall traditions has continued: the World Series, baseball’s annual championship consumed by millions. This year, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays have split the first two games, setting us up for […]
GCP – Improving security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL
Ensuring databases are securely managed is a crucial part of every organization’s critical operations. When those organizations rely on a managed service like Cloud SQL, a key benefit is consistency of management, including security policies that extend beyond a single service. Cloud SQL has continued to enhance its security capabilities. We’ve introduced VPC Service Controls […]
AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions
You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon S3 as Apache Parquet format in additional regions. Parquet is an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics and is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to other […]
Azure – Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Make your general purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for public key management through IAM user permissions for signed URLs and signed cookies
Amazon CloudFront announces that you can now manage public keys used for signed URLs and signed cookies through Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) based user permission, without requiring the AWS root account. With the IAM user permissions based public key management, you get more flexibility and API access to manage your public keys. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports the scheduling of SQL queries by integrating with Amazon EventBridge
Amazon Redshift now allows you to schedule your SQL queries for executions in recurring schedules and enables you to build event-driven by integrating with Amazon EventBridge. You can now schedule time sensitive or long running queries, loading or unloading your data, or refreshing your materialized views on a regular schedule. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS introduces First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics with strict ordering and deduplication of messages
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority
In August 2020, Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) launched a feature to share Certificate Authorities (CA) between AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). With today’s launch, App Mesh customers will be able to use a certificate authority shared with their AWS account while configuring TLS between services in their mesh. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh increases default limits on several resources
AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and enables options to tune for high-availability of your applications. App Mesh has now increased the default limits for a set of resources – virtual nodes, and virtual gateways. These limit increases make it […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Oracle Data Guard physical standby database
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports the creation of Oracle Data Guard physical standby DB instances which run in mount mode, which fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard, and asynchronously replicates data over secured network connections between a primary DB instance and its physical standby mounted DB replicas. Amazon […]