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AWS – AWS China (Beijing) Region Adds the Third Availability Zone
Today, AWS China (Beijing) Region* has added a third Availability Zone (AZ) to support the high demand of our growing customer base. An Availability Zone (AZ) is one or more discrete data centers with redundant power, networking, and connectivity in an AWS Region. AZs give customers the ability to operate production applications and databases that […]
AWS – AWS Audit Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) Regions
AWS Audit Manager is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and Canada (Central) Regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Intro to Kf: Cloud Foundry apps on Kubernetes
While many companies are writing brand-new Kubernetes-based applications, it’s still quite common to find companies who want to migrate existing workloads. A common source platform for these applications is Cloud Foundry. However, getting an existing Cloud Foundry application running on Kubernetes can be non-trivial, especially if you want to avoid making code changes in your […]
AWS – Announcing new PostgreSQL 13.2, 13.1, and 12.6 version support for Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) on AWS Outposts now supports PostgreSQL 13.2, 13.1, and 12.6 for production deployment. Amazon RDS on Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, […]
Azure – General availability: Update in Policy Compliance for Resource Type Policies
Azure Policy built-in policies in which resource type is the only evaluation criterion (e.g. Allowed Resource Types, Disallowed Resource Types) have updated logic to provide a more accurate assessment of your overall environment when aggregated with other policies. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Financial Services Security and Compliance Framework
Financial Services Security and Compliance Framework is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Airwalk Reply, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. Financial Services Security and Compliance Framework helps customers establish continuous compliance through the use of cloud-native tools, market-leading products, and Airwalk Reply’s own Continuous Compliance Framework (CCF). Customers that […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing your job scripts
AWS Glue Studio now includes a code editor for customizing the extract-transform-and-load (ETL) code it generates from your input in its visual ETL job editor. Previously, you needed to download and modify scripts themselves if you needed to customize the code. Now, you can use AWS Glue Studio’s visual editor to get started quickly and […]
GCP – Google Dataflow is a Leader in The 2021 Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics
We are excited to announce that Google has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021 report. Thank you to our strong community of customers and partners for working with us to deliver a customer focused product. We believe Forrester’s recognition is an acknowledgement of our leadership across an integrated set […]
GCP – Node, Python and Java repositories now available in Artifact Registry
As a developer, you need a secure place to store all your stuff: container images of course, but also language packages that can enable code reuse across multiple applications. Today, we’re pleased to announce support for Node.js, Python and Java repositories for Artifact Registry in Preview. With today’s announcement, you can not only use Artifact […]
Azure – Azure Backup: Upgrade to TLS 1.2 or above for secure MARS agent backups by September 1, 2021
Support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 ends September 1, 2021, please upgrade to TLS 1.2 to ensure secure and uninterrupted backups using MARS agent Read More for the details.