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AWS – AWS Copilot CLI launches v0.5 to let users deploy scheduled jobs and more
Today, the AWS Copilot CLI for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched version 0.5.0. Starting with this release, you can deploy applications or jobs that need to run only on a particular schedule. AWS Copilot has built in timeouts and retries to provide more flexibility for how your scheduled jobs run. AWS Copilot will […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL Supports Minor Version 8.0.21
Amazon RDS for MySQL has been updated to support release 8.0.21 of the MySQL database. This release includes a number of bug fixes as well as functionality improvements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing the AWS Load Balancer Controller
The ALB Ingress Controller is now the AWS Load Balancer Controller, and includes support for both Application Load Balancers and Network Load Balancers. The new controller enables you to simplify operations and save costs by sharing an Application Load Balancer across multiple applications in your Kubernetes cluster, as well as using a Network Load Balancer to […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now FedRAMP-Moderate compliant
Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) clusters running in standard AWS regions are now compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate baseline. Read More for the details.
GCP – Preparing for peak holiday shopping in 2020: War rooms go virtual
As retail gets ready for an unprecedented holiday 2020, it’s not just shoppers who are looking to go digital-first. Retail war rooms – traditionally a single large room where core IT and business teams gather together to ensure systems keep running, websites don’t crash and items stay in stock – are also looking different due […]
GCP – MLB uses Google Cloud Smart Analytics platform to scale data insights
Though 2020 has been a year like no other, many sports fans can take comfort in the fact that one of America’s fall traditions has continued: the World Series, baseball’s annual championship consumed by millions. This year, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays have split the first two games, setting us up for […]
GCP – Improving security and governance in PostgreSQL with Cloud SQL
Ensuring databases are securely managed is a crucial part of every organization’s critical operations. When those organizations rely on a managed service like Cloud SQL, a key benefit is consistency of management, including security policies that extend beyond a single service. Cloud SQL has continued to enhance its security capabilities. We’ve introduced VPC Service Controls […]
AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Snapshot Export to S3 available in additional regions
You can now export Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) or Amazon Aurora snapshots to Amazon S3 as Apache Parquet format in additional regions. Parquet is an efficient open columnar storage format for analytics and is up to 2x faster to export and consumes up to 6x less storage in Amazon S3, compared to other […]
Azure – Public preview: Zone redundant configuration for Azure SQL DB general purpose tier
Make your general purpose databases and elastic pools resilient to a much larger set of failures, including catastrophic datacenter outages, without any changes of the application logic by selecting zone redundancy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for public key management through IAM user permissions for signed URLs and signed cookies
Amazon CloudFront announces that you can now manage public keys used for signed URLs and signed cookies through Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) based user permission, without requiring the AWS root account. With the IAM user permissions based public key management, you get more flexibility and API access to manage your public keys. Read […]