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AWS – Amazon Detective enhances VPC flow visibility
Amazon Detective now enables you to interactively examine your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network flows. This new capability enables you to answer questions such as “what port or network service was in use at that time?”, “were any large data transfers involved?”, “was the traffic allowed by my Security Groups?”. These details help security […]
AWS – Amazon VPC Resources Now Support Tag on Create
You can now add tags to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources while creating the resource. These resources are VPCs, Subnets, Network Interfaces, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Route Tables, Internet Gateways, Egress-only Internet Gateways, DHCP Option Sets and VPC Peering Connections. Read More for the details.
AWS – Scale-Out Computing on AWS with REST API, finer-grained job management capabilities, and enhanced web interface
Scale-Out Computing on AWS is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides customers with a production-ready reference implementation for deploying an AWS environment to start and manage scale-out workloads. This implementation features a large selection of compute resources, budget and cost management integration within AWS, automation tools, and an example user interface. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds embedded authoring, namespaces for multi-tenancy, and more
Amazon QuickSight now allows customers to embed dashboard authoring capability within third party applications and portals. Customers (e.g., Independent Software Vendors or ISVs, enterprises) can now provide self-service data exploration, ad-hoc data analysis, and dashboard authoring capabilities directly to their end-users. Customers benefit from not having to repeatedly create custom dashboards based on ad-hoc requests […]
AWS – Amazon EFS CSI Driver is now generally available
The Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) CSI driver is now generally available. The EFS CSI driver makes it simple to configure elastic file storage for both EKS and self-managed Kubernetes clusters running on AWS using standard Kubernetes interfaces. Applications running in Kubernetes can use EFS file systems to share data between pods in a scale-out […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Minor Version 8.0.20
Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.20 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Read More for the details.
GCP – A look at the shift in location intelligence from MediaAgility
Editor’s note:The growth and adoption of Google Maps Platform over the past 15 years would not have been possible without innovations from our partners and partner ecosystem. We’ve asked a few of our partners to share their reflections on how they were able to embrace location data to not only grow their businesses but also […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Service Master Key Retention
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now retains the same Service Master Key (SMK) throughout the lifespan of the RDS SQL Server DB instance. By retaining the same SMK, your DB instance will be able to seamlessly use objects that are encrypted with the SMK. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using new traffic control features in External HTTP(S) load balancer
At the heart of every HTTP(S) load balancer is an enduring URL map that reliably directs each incoming request to its appropriate destination. In April, we announced two new actions supported by the URL map: redirects and rewrites. With URL redirects the load balancer redirects incoming requests from one URL to another. With rewrites, you […]
GCP – What happened week 2 of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir
In our second week of Cloud Next OnAir, we highlighted our collaboration and productivity solutions to help organizations work better together and get things done. From G Suite VP and GM Javier Soltero’s opening remarks, to breakout sessions on G Suite and Chrome Enterprise product roadmaps, to technical demos, it’s been a week jam-packed with […]