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AWS – Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka version 2.6.2
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports Apache Kafka version 2.6.2 for new and existing clusters. Apache Kafka 2.6.2 includes several bug fixes and security fixes. Version 2.6.2 will replace 2.6.1 as the default recommended version for new clusters created in Amazon MSK. For a complete list of fixes, see the Apache […]
Azure – General availability: Set up Azure Site Recovery with proximity placement groups across hybrid and cloud disaster recovery scenarios
Azure Site Recovery now provides a portal experience to failover VMs or physical servers inside a proximity placement group in the target Azure region. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports cross-continental disaster recovery for 3 region pairs
Protect your applications from outages by replicating your virtual machines across continents. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Site Recovery now supports Azure Policy in public preview
Leverage Azure Policy to enable Azure Site Recovery for your VMs at scale and ensure organizational standards. Read More for the details.
GCP – The evolution of Kubernetes networking with the GKE Gateway controller
Last week the Kubernetes community announced the Gateway API as an evolution of the Kubernetes networking APIs. Led by Google and a variety of contributors, the Gateway APIunifies networking under a core set of standard resources. Similar to how Ingress created an ecosystem of implementations, the Gateway API delivers unification, but on an even broader […]
GCP – 6 more reasons why GKE is the best Kubernetes service
It’s that time of the year again: time to get excited about all things cloud-native, as we gear up to connect, share and learn from fellow developers and technologists around the world at KubeCon EU 2021 next week. Cloud-native technologies are mainstream and our creation, Kubernetes, is core to building and operating modern software. We’re […]
GCP – Introducing Open Saves: open-source cloud-native storage for games
Many of today’s games are rich, immersive worlds that engage the audience in ways that make a gamer a part of a continuing storyline. To create these persistent experiences, numerous storage technologies are required to ensure game data can scale to the standards of gamers’ demands. Not only do game developers need to store different […]
GCP – How Anthos supports your multicloud needs from day one
Most enterprises that run in the cloud have already spent a significant amount of effort automating, operationalizing, and securing their environment. Many have spent years investing in a single cloud provider. Yet today, the ability to run workloads on multiple cloud providers is becoming increasingly important. Why? There are multiple reasons. Some organizations want application […]
GCP – Risk governance of digital transformation: guide for risk, compliance & audit teams
The ongoing shift toward cloud technologies has transformed industries and continues to accelerate. This has created new challenges and opportunities for Chief Risk Officers, Chief Compliance Officers, Heads of Internal Audit and their teams. As their organizations pursue newfound agility, quality improvements to their products and services, and relevance in the marketplace, executives and their […]
GCP – 4 simple steps to make the perfect spreadsheet to power your no-code app
Making data accessible, useful and actionable in different contexts is one of the main reasons we build apps. Typically, this involves a lot of engineering, but thanks to no-code app development, even those with no coding experience can create apps from the most commonplace data repository of them all: the spreadsheet or Google Sheets. For […]