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AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Services announces support for Elasticsearch versions 7.7
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.7 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB supports additional sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes
Starting today, Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MariaDB support 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes for db.m5 and db.r5 instance classes. With support for these new instance sizes, customers who are currently using m4.10xlarge, m4.16xlarge, r4.8xlarge, or r4.16xlarge now have an easy upgrade path to the latest generation of instances. Read More for the […]
GCP – How G Suite helps businesses evolve to more flexible and distributed work models
Since joining Google a few months ago to lead G Suite marketing, I’ve been humbled by the many inspiring stories of businesses reacting swiftly to the global pandemic. Our customers have enabled their teams to re-imagine not only how they communicate and collaborate with each other remotely, but also how they continue to serve their […]
GCP – Giving you better cost analytics capabilities—and a simpler invoice
Invoices are an important part of your ability to record and track spending and attribute it back to purchase orders and department budgets. They’re also often required for enterprises by law for financial record keeping and audits. However, a typical invoice doesn’t offer the level of detail that a financial operations (FinOps) team needs to […]
GCP – Why you should share your Apps Script projects as G Suite Add-ons
Apps Script is a great way to quickly create automations and utilities to speed up processes or eliminate repetitive tasks within G Suite. Once you’ve developed such a tool, you’ll probably want to share it with colleagues across your organization. Sharing the Sheet or Doc that’s bound to your script project is simple and intuitive, […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces Cache Key and Origin Request Policies
Amazon CloudFront now provides enhanced granular control to configure headers, query strings, and cookies that can be used to compute the cache key or forwarded to your origin from your CloudFront distributions. Further, you can configure the cache key and origin request settings independently as account-level policies that can be easily applied across multiple distributions. […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh achieves HIPAA eligibility
AWS App Mesh is now a U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) eligible service. Customers can now use AWS App Mesh to manage communication between services that contains protected health information (PHI). To learn more, visit our site on services compliance or see our compliance resources. Read More for the […]
AWS – Announcing the CIS Benchmark for Amazon EKS
The new CIS Benchmark for Amazon EKS helps you accurately assess the secure configuration of nodes running as part of your Amazon EKS clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports private data transfers between AWS and Salesforce
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now supports private data transfers between AWS and Salesforce leveraging AWS PrivateLink. Customers can use AppFlow’s private data transfer option to ensure that data does not get exposed to the public internet during transfers between AWS […]