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GCP – Keeping students, universities and employers connected with Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Handshake, an innovative startup and platform that partners with universities and employers to ensure that college students have equal access to meaningful career opportunities. With over 7 million active student users, 1,000 university and 500,000 employer partners, it’s now the leading early career community in the U.S. Here’s how […]
GCP – Google Cloud fuels new discoveries in astronomy
From understanding our origins to predicting future events, some of the greatest breakthroughs we’ve made on Earth have come from studying the universe. High-performance computing and machine learning (ML) are accelerating this kind of research at an unprecedented pace. At Google Cloud, we’re proud to play even a small role in advancing the science of […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing 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 Machine Images (AMIs) now support tag-on-create and tag-based access control
Amazon EC2 now allows you to add tags to your Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) and EBS Snapshots during AMI creation. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can assign to resources to easily organize, search, and identify resources, create cost allocation reports, and control access to resources. You can define fine-grained access controls using tags […]
Azure – Azure IRAP has assessed seven additional services and granted them the level of PROTECTED
Azure expands its depth of offerings to Australian customers with its latest independent IRAP assessment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect reduces 10 Latin America telephony rates
Amazon Connect is announcing 10 telephony rate reductions for customers in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru from the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EBS io2 volumes now support SAP workloads
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) io2 volumes are now supported for SAP workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds open source tool integrations with Kube-bench and Cloud Custodian
AWS Security Hub can now automatically receive findings from the open source tool Kube-bench Kube-bench checks whether your Kubernetes cluster is configured in accordance with the recommendations from the Center for Internet Security (CIS), supporting both the CIS Kubernetes Benchmark and the CIS Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Benchmark. Kube-bench’s findings about non-compliant configuration […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server now support R5b instance types in additional AWS Regions
On December 1, we announced support for Amazon EC2 R5b instance types in the US East (Ohio), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. Starting today, we’re happy to announce you can now launch Amazon EC2 R5b instance types using Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for SQL Server in additional AWS Regions: North […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail provides more granular control of data event logging through advanced event selectors
AWS CloudTrail now provides more granular control of data event logging with advanced event selectors. Data events provide visibility into the data plane resource operations performed on or within a resource. You can currently log data events on two resource types: Amazon S3 object-level API activity (e.g. GetObject, DeleteObject, and PutObject API operations), and AWS […]