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AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds support for on-sheet filter controls
Amazon QuickSight now supports filter controls that you can place beside visuals on dashboards, allowing readers to quickly slice and dice data in the context of its visual representation. You can create these filter controls from existing or new filters with a single click, and configure them to support different operations, such as filtering specific dates, […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now provides a catalog of all patches for Amazon Linux
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now makes it easier for you to create patch compliance reports by providing a catalog of all patches released for Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux 2. You can now view a list of all released patches for Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux 2 even if those patches are not applicable […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now provides up to 76% lower cost and 3.6X improved performance
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g instances to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads. Amazon EC2 M6g instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. The combination of EMR runtime for Apache Spark and EC2 M6g instances offer up to 76% lower […]
GCP – Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
Security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks disrupt businesses of all sizes, leading to outages, and worse, loss of user trust. These threats are a big reason why at Google we put a premium on service reliability that’s built on the foundation of a rugged network. To help ensure reliability, we’ve devised some innovative […]
AWS – Resource Access Manager Support is now available on AWS Outposts
AWS Outposts support for AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) lets customers share access to Outposts resources – EC2 instances, EBS volumes, subnets, and local gateways (LGWs) – across multiple accounts within an organization. With this new capability, you can enable distributed teams and business units within your organization to configure VPCs, launch and run EC2 […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now supports free-text search of runbooks
AWS Systems Manager now lets you easily search for runbooks and other Systems Manager documents, such as Run Command and Distributor packages, by specifying a part of the name as the search keyword. This feature enables easy discovery of runbooks when you have a large number of runbooks in your account or when you do […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports SAP HANA backups with AWS Backint Agent
You can now use AWS Launch Wizard to deploy and configure AWS Backint Agent, an SAP-certified backup and restore application for SAP HANA workloads running on Amazon EC2 instances. While creating a deployment with AWS Launch Wizard, you will have the option to enable backups with Backint Agent by selecting the Amazon S3 bucket where […]
Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available in the Azure Government cloud
Simplify and secure your virtualization infrastructure, in the cloud, with Windows Virtual Desktop. Read More for the details.
GCP – What’s happening in BigQuery: Time unit partitioning, Table ACLs and more
At Google Cloud, we’re invested in building data analytics products with a customer-first mindset. Our engineering team is thrilled to share recent feature enhancements and product updates that we’ve made to help you get even more value out of BigQuery, Google Cloud’s enterprise data warehouse. To support you in writing more efficient queries, BigQuery released […]
GCP – Cloud Code makes YAML easy for hundreds of popular Kubernetes CRDs
When developing a service to deploy on Kubernetes, do you sometimes feel like you’re more focused on your YAML files than on your application? When working with YAML, do you find it hard to detect errors early in the development process? We created Cloud Code to let you spend more time writing code and less […]