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GCP – 3 strategies to ensure business continuity using Anthos
Whether your organization is scaling up to meet a sudden surge in demand or scaling down to manage costs, business continuity has never been more important. And in a climate where IT needs are rapidly changing, driven by evolving customer demands, business continuity means so much more than having the right a backup and disaster […]
GCP – Introducing table-level access controls in BigQuery
We’re announcing a key capability to help organizations govern their data in Google Cloud. Our new BigQuery table-level access controls (table ACLs) are an important step that enables you to control your data and share it at an even finer granularity. Table ACLs also bring closer compatibility with other data warehouse systems where the base […]
AWS – Amazon ECS Cluster Auto Scaling now available in seven additional regions
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) cluster auto scaling is now available in seven additional regions: Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), Middle East (Bahrain), South America (São Paulo), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), operated by Sinnet, and China (Ningxia), operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.
AWS – Secure AWS Elemental MediaPackage VOD Endpoints using CDN Authorization
You can now restrict direct access to AWS Elemental MediaPackage by securing requests for VOD content using CDN authorization. With CDN authorization, content requests require a specific HTTP origin header and authorization code. MediaPackage verifies this code before it serves any content. For instructions on how to configure CDN authorization for live endpoints, please refer […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds filtering by channel to the ‘Get queue metrics’ block
You can now filter queue metrics by channel within contact flows for a single queue. With the launch of chat, queue metrics blended both voice and chat contacts. Now you can filter queue metrics by contact type when configuring the ‘Get queue metrics’ block. For example, based on the number of contacts in a blended […]
Azure – Azure DevOps Services now simplifies Azure Artifacts integration with other services
The latest update to Azure DevOps Services includes new features for Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, and Azure Pipelines. Of particular note is a new Azure Artifacts feature that makes it easier to authenticate Azure Artifacts with other popular package managers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility for PostgreSQL 11 is available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the April 24, 2020 announcement of the availability of PostgreSQL 11 support with Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility in all commercial AWS Regions, we have expanded availability to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. PostgreSQL 11 includes major improvements to partitioning, improvements to parallelism, and many other useful performance improvements like adding columns with a non-null […]
AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights now supports MySQL, Amazon DynamoDB, custom logs, and more
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights launched several new features to enhance observability for customers’ applications. Starting today, CloudWatch Application Insights expands monitoring support for two databases, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server – MySQL and Amazon DynamoDB. This enables customers to easily configure monitors for these databases on CloudWatch and detect common errors such as slow […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports writing to external tables in Amazon S3
You can now write the results of an Amazon Redshift query to an external table in Amazon S3 either in text or Apache Parquet formats. The external table metadata will be automatically updated and can be stored in AWS Glue, AWS Lake Formation, or your Hive Metastore data catalog. This enables you to easily share […]
Azure – Azure Database for MySQL support for encryption at rest using customer-managed keys now in preview
Azure Database for MySQL support for encryption of data at rest using customer-managed keys (data encryption) through Azure Key Vault is now in preview. Read More for the details.