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GCP – Migrate and modernize your on-prem data lake with managed Kafka
Data analytics has been a rapidly changing area of technology, and cloud data warehouses have brought new options for businesses to analyze data. Organizations have typically used data warehouses to curate data for business analytics use cases. Data lakes emerged as another option that allows for more types of data to be stored and used. […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports three Availability Zone deployments in EU(Stockholm), Asia Pacifiic (Seoul), and South America (Sao Paulo)
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now enables you to deploy your instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) providing better availability for your domains. If you enable replicas for your Elasticsearch indices, Amazon Elasticsearch Service distributes the primary and replica shards across nodes in different AZs to maximize availability. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces new TLS1.2 security policy for viewer connections
Details: Amazon CloudFront now supports a new security policy, TLSv1.2_2019, which includes only the following ciphers: ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud’s Commitment to EU International Data Transfers and the CJEU Ruling
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a ruling invalidating the EU US Privacy Shield Framework, but upholding the validity of EU Model Contract Clauses (MCCs), also known as Standard Contractual Clauses. Both of these mechanisms were created for the lawful transfer of personal data from the European […]
AWS – New Amazon Elastic File System console simplifies file system creation and management
We’ve updated the Amazon Elastic File system (Amazon EFS) console to make it even easier for you to create and manage your file system resources. In addition to a refreshed look and feel, you can now create a file system using the recommended settings in just a few clicks, you can customize your view to […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 VM Import / Export adds support for Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 8 and CentOS 8
EC2 VM Import / Export (VMIE) now allows you to import virtual machine images with Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 8/8.1/8.2 and CentOS 8/8.1/8.2 for creating Amazon Machine Images (AMI). You can use the AMI to create Amazon EC2 instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MQ adds support for new micro broker (mq.t3.micro)
Amazon MQ now supports mq.t3.micro, the next generation of micro instance, priced at 8% to 13% less than the previous generation mq.t2.micro. Read More for the details.
AWS – Lumberyard Beta 1.25 Now Available
Lumberyard 1.25 is available now, bringing you an updated UI, an updated Starter Game project to help you get set up with best practices, and the brand new White Box Tool! Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Windows authentication in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for Windows authentication using the AWS Managed Microsoft AD service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing automatic backups for Amazon Elastic File System
Starting today, all new file systems created using the Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) console are automatically backed up with AWS Backup using the recommended settings (daily backups with a retention of 35 days). Automatic backups for Amazon EFS further simplifies backup management of your file systems by easily enabling you to meet your […]