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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2021 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. The April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon. Read More for the details.
GCP – Keep your budgets flexible with configurable budget periods
TL;DR – Automation makes managing budgets easier and the Budget API now supports configurable budget time periods for even more flexibility! As if I wasn’t going to re-use this template for a terrible Python joke Even though we just walked through some of the basics of using the Budget API, there’s a new feature that’s […]
AWS – Announcing enhancements to Amazon Rekognition text detection – support for more words, higher accuracy, and lower latency
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning powered image and video analysis service that can identify objects and concepts, people, faces, inappropriate content, as well as detect text. Rekognition text detection detects and reads text in an image, and returns bounding boxes for each word found. Starting today, Rekognition can detect up to 100 words in […]
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 5 New Peering Locations Available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 5 new peering locations. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints. With this feature, you can communicate with X-Ray service from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing that traffic to the public internet. VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, like X-Ray, on the private AWS […]
AWS – Manage Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) service quotas through the Service Quotas console
Now, you can manage service quotas for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, through the Service Quotas console. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App2Container now supports deployment of containerized applications to AWS App Runner
AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports deployment of containerized Java and Springboot web applications to AWS App Runner. With this feature, users can now target App Runner as deployment runtime in addition to ECS and EKS that were previously supported. Using App2Container, developers can take a running Linux based web application, analyze, containerize, and deploy to […]
GCP – Anthos in depth: All the posts in our hybrid and multicloud development series
Every company is trying to get better business outcomes through software. We created Kubernetes to maximize productivity of our own developers, and open sourced it to help others achieve the same. To make Kubernetes more production ready, we created Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as the best way to consume Kubernetes as a reliable, secure and […]
GCP – Best practices to protect your organization against ransomware threats
Ransomware, a form of malware that encrypts a user’s or organization’s most important files or data rendering them unreadable, isn’t a novel threat in the world of computer security. These destructive, financially-motivated attacks where cybercriminals demand payment to decrypt data and restore access have been studied and documented for many years. Today’s reality shows us […]
AWS – Amazon Lex now supports resource-based policies for bots and aliases
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