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GCP – Testing Cloud SQL failover: Where to begin
One of the key considerations of a high availability setup for Cloud SQL is its ability to failover from a primary instance to a standby instance if the primary instance becomes unresponsive. It might be a paradigm shift to think about purposely initiating a failover and watching what happens, but it can be tremendously helpful […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL M6g and R6g instances now available in N. California, Canada, São Paulo, and London regions
AWS Graviton2-based database instances for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL are now supported in: US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (São Paulo), and Europe (London). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement over comparable current generation x86-based instances for RDS open source databases depending […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds four Trusted Advisor checks
AWS Lambda now supports four new Trusted Advisor checks to help customers optimize the cost, security, function runtime version and fault tolerance of their Lambda functions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing Amazon RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to setup automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces is available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region, increasing the number of AWS Regions in which WorkSpaces is available to 14. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users and data, providing a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can better meet data sovereignty requirements […]
GCP – Google Cloud Celebrates International Women’s Day
Today, Google Cloud celebrates International Women’s Day #IWD2021 and stands with those who #ChooseToChallenge inequality, call out bias, and question stereotypes. Together, we can forge an inclusive world that accurately reflects the people and communities who live in it. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. […]
GCP – Healthcare distributor FFF Enterprises improves performance 7x with SAP on Google Cloud
When getting the right product to the right person is a matter of life and death, you don’t want to have to worry about how well your ERP system is performing. That’s why FFF Enterprises, Inc. (FFF), a leading supplier of critical-care biopharmaceuticals, plasma products, and vaccines—including those used to protect against COVID-19—chose to migrate […]
AWS – Announcing Kotlin-centric developer experience in Amplify Android
Today, we are announcing first-class support for Kotlin in Amplify Android. Amplify Android is part of AWS Amplify, a set of libraries, tools, and services that help frontend web and mobile developers build secure, scalable, full-stack applications. Kotlin is a popular programming language commonly used by Android developers, among others. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 25 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard
AWS Security Hub has released 25 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard. These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway (APIGateway.1), Amazon Cloudfront (CloudFront.1-4), Amazon DynamoDB (DynamoDB.1-3), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2.9-10), Amazon Elastic File System (EFS.2), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES.2-3), Amazon RDS (RDS.9-10), Amazon Redshift […]
GCP – Celebrating International Women’s Day with Google Maps Platform Leaders
Today is International Women’s Day and we’re kicking off the celebration by highlighting 8 Google leaders who have made significant contributions to the work we deliver here across the Google Maps and Google Maps Platform teams. These women not only lead teams at Google, but have had rich careers as tech trailblazers across many technology […]