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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.
Azure – A new consolidated API version in Azure Monitor Logs is now available
A new API version for Azure Monitor Logs resource provider, 2020-03-01-preview, is now available. This API supports new functionality like customer-managed keys (CMK), bring your own storage (BYOS), along with other capabilities. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
Amazon Personalize uses machine learning technology perfected from over 20 years of recommender systems development at Amazon.com. With Amazon Personalize you are can personalize recommendations for products, videos, music, ebooks, ads, marketing emails, and more, for your users, without any prior machine learning experience. Read More for the details.
GCP – Admin Essentials: Enhanced extension reporting with Chrome Browser’s Takeout API
Extensions offer enterprise users a great way to customize their Chrome Browser experience and help them get more work done in the cloud. But IT teams often want more visibility into extension usage to help them apply security policies that address the needs of the business. Chrome Browser Cloud Management provides a great way to […]
GCP – Supporting your compliance journey with Cloud Compliance Resource Center
Building and maintaining a compliance program can be complex and challenging. It requires implementing policies, operational and physical security controls, and various reporting mechanisms. We know our customers have to manage a wide variety of regulatory and industry-specific compliance requirements, and Google Cloud is committed to being a partner in your compliance journey. To help […]
GCP – Optimizing for long-term cost management in fully managed applications
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed a bunch of practical steps you can take to keep costs in check for applications running on Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless compute platforms, App Engine, Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. But beyond the immediate actions like setting max instances and budget alerts, there are several general optimizations […]
GCP – Last month today: May in Google Cloud
Last month brought new and continued challenges around the world, and new ways technology can help meet them. Top posts in May on the Google Cloud blog covered news on productivity, G Suite, and much more. Here’s what you missed. Understanding cloud infrastructure to serve more people faster This post goes in-depth on how our […]