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AWS – AWS Direct Connect enables Failover Testing
AWS Direct Connect makes it easy to establish resilient network connectivity from your premises to AWS. Using AWS Direct Connect, you can establish private connectivity between AWS and your data center, office, or colocation environment, which in many cases can reduce your network costs, increase bandwidth throughput, and provide a more consistent network experience than […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Explorer now adds support for a delegated administrator account to view operational data across multiple accounts and regions
Starting today, you can view AWS Systems Manager Explorer’s operational data across multiple accounts and Regions from a delegated administrator account in your organization, in addition to the master account in AWS Organizations. This helps you improve security and flexibility by providing the ability to dedicate a separate operations account for viewing operations data and […]
AWS – Tighten S3 permissions for your IAM users and roles using access history of S3 actions
To help you identify unused S3 permissions, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) extended service last accessed information to include S3 management actions and reports the last time a user or role used an S3 action. This granular access information helps you analyze access, identify unused S3 actions, and remove them confidently. Read More for […]
AWS – Database Activity Streams now available for Aurora with MySQL compatibility
Database Activity Streams for Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility provides a near real-time stream of database activities in your relational database. When integrated with third party database activity monitoring tools, Database Activity Streams can monitor and audit database activity to provide safeguards for your database and help you meet compliance and regulatory requirements. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Amazon QuickSight is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. New users can sign up for QuickSight with Asia Pacific (Mumbai) as their home region, making SPICE capacity available in region and ensuring proximity to AWS and on-premises data sources. Existing QuickSight users can switch to Asia Pacific (Mumbai) via the region switcher in […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports minor version 8.0.19
Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.19 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Infineon’s OPTIGA Trust M now qualified for use with FreeRTOS and available for use with AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration
Semiconductor manufacturers like Infineon can now use AWS IoT Core Multi-Account Registration to pre-configure silicon components like secure elements with X.509 certificates and private keys, ensuring devices built using these components are pre-qualified to connect to AWS IoT by default. AWS IoT customers can then use these qualified devices together with AWS IoT Multi-Account Registration […]
GCP – How to find—and use—your GKE logs with Cloud Logging
Logs are an important part of troubleshooting and it’s critical to have them when you need them. When it comes to logging, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is integrated with Google Cloud’s Logging service. But perhaps you’ve never investigated your GKE logs, or Cloud Logging? Here’s an overview of how logging works in GKE, and how […]
GCP – Introducing cross-region replica for Cloud SQL
Being responsible for business continuity isn’t easy. You must consider a wide variety of failure scenarios, including the outage of a Google region. In the event of a regional outage, you want your application and database to quickly start serving your customers in another available region if a Google Cloud region fails. We’ve worked closely […]
GCP – How Migrate for Anthos streamlines legacy Java app modernization
Recently, we’ve been highlighting all the ways that Anthos, our hybrid and multi-cloud application platform, can help you modernize your Java applications and development and delivery processes. This week we’ll focus on how Migrate for Anthos, which takes your existing VM-based applications and intelligently converts them to run in containers on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), […]