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AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now enable you to create EBS snapshots in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region directly from any block storage
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs to create EBS snapshots in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region directly from any block storage data, including on-premises data. With a set of API calls, customers can use EBS snapshots to store data in AWS, regardless of where it resides. This enables customers […]
Azure – Action Required: Upgrade IoT Hub IP filter before 1 February 2022
The upgraded IP filter protects the built-in endpoint and is more secure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Take the first step toward SRE with Cloud Operations Sandbox
At Google Cloud, we strive to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture to our customers not only through training on organizational best practices, but also with the tools you need to run successful cloud services. Part and parcel of that is comprehensive observability tooling—logging, monitoring, tracing, profiling and debugging—which can help you troubleshoot production issues […]
GCP – New whitepaper: Designing and deploying a data security strategy with Google Cloud
William Gibson said it best: “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” The cloud has arrived. Data security in the cloud is too often a novel problem for our customers. Well-worn paths to security are lacking. We often see customers struggling to adapt their data security posture to this new reality. There is […]
AWS – Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT SiteWise now supports date and time functions, and global time zones for use in metric and transform computations in the AWS IoT SiteWise asset model. You can now use date and time expressions to retrieve the current timestamp of equipment data in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) now supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Amazon SQS already supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in all commercial regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MSK now supports the ability to change the size or family of your Apache Kafka brokers
You can now scale your Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters on demand by changing the size or family of your brokers without reassigning Apache Kafka partitions. Changing the size or family of your brokers gives you the flexibility to adjust your MSK cluster’s compute capacity based on changes in your workloads, without […]
AWS – Amazon Detective enhances IP Address Analytics
Amazon Detective now provides enhanced IP address analytics enabling faster security investigations. With this new capability you can answer questions about a specific IP address such as “how long has this IP address been interacting with the resources in my accounts”, “which of my EC2 instances did this IP address communicate with?”, “What were the […]
AWS – New partner training on migration, cloud governance, and machine learning
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the availability of three new courses for AWS Partners. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports JSON syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, now supports JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) syntax to help you read and write data from other systems more easily. Read More for the details.