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GCP – Cloud SQL now supports PostgreSQL 13
Today, we are announcing that Cloud SQL, our fully managed database service for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server, now supports PostgreSQL 13. With PostgreSQL 13 available shortly after its community GA, you get access to the latest features of PostgreSQL while letting Cloud SQL handle the heavy operational lifting, so your team can focus on […]

GCP – Hack your own custom domains for Container Registry
If you serve public container images from Container Registry or Artifact Registry, you are exposing your project ID and other details to your users downloading this image. However, by writing a small middleware and running it serverless, you can customize how your registry works. In this article, I would like to show you how you […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet announce Capacity Rebalancing for EC2 Spot Instances
Starting today, you can proactively manage the EC2 Spot Instance lifecycle by using the new Capacity Rebalancing feature for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. Capacity Rebalancing helps you maintain workload availability by proactively augmenting your fleet with a new Spot Instance before a running instance receives a two-minute interruption notice. Previously, […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams enables data stream retention up to one year
You can now store streaming data for up to one year in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. Long term retention of streaming data enables you to use the same platform for both real-time and older data retained in Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. For example, you can train machine learning algorithms for financial trading, marketing personalization, and […]

AWS – Introducing EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation for EC2 Spot Instances
Starting today, you can proactively rebalance your workloads running on EC2 Spot Instances without having to wait until the Spot Instance receives a two minute Instance interruption notice. You now have access to a new feature called “EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation”, a signal that notifies you when a Spot Instance is at elevated risk of […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations now supports AWS Wavelength Zones
Starting today, Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations are now supported with AWS Wavelength Zones. Customers can now reserve capacity for their Amazon EC2 instances for any duration. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Marketplace enables vendor-provided cost allocation tags, enhancing visibility into software costs for analysis, allocation, and optimization
Today, AWS Marketplace announced the ability for independent software vendors (ISVs) to provide tags corresponding to the metered usage of their software. Customers can enable the vendor provided tags as cost allocation tags to gain visibility into third-party software spend. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports StackSet instance operations
AWS Service Catalog now supports Stack Set instance operations. With this new feature, end-users can control the individual instances for their StackSets, within the constraints specified by their AWS Service Catalog administrator. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EventBridge is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EventBridge is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that makes it easy to connect applications using data from a variety of data sources. Amazon EventBridge enables you to build event-driven architectures that are loosely coupled and distributed. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup—Soft delete for SQL Server in Azure VM and SAP HANA
Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines is now generally available. Read More for the details.