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GCP – GKE best practices: Designing and building highly available clusters
Like many organizations, you employ a variety of risk management and risk mitigation strategies to keep your systems running, including your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment. These strategies ensure business continuity during both predictable and unpredictable outages, and they are especially important now, when you are working to limit the impact of the pandemic on […]

AWS – New AWS Public Datasets Available from National Center for Biotechnology Information, the Johns Hopkins and University of Texas at Southwestern, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and others
Twenty-three new or updated AWS Public Datasets from National Center for Bioinformatics, the Johns Hopkins and University of Texas at Southwestern, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Cancer Institute, National Herbarium of New South Wales, and others are now available in the following categories: Read More for the details.

Azure – Revocation of non-compliant Certificate Authorities potentially impacting customer’s Azure service(s).
Recent reports detailed Certificate Authorities that were not compliant with industry standards for trusted CAs. As per industry requirements, non-compliant CAs are being revoked requiring customers certificates to be re-issued. Read More for the details.

Azure – Notification of upcoming changes to Azure Time Series Insights web experience URL
Notification of changes coming to Azure Time Series Insights Web Experience URL Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) now supports VPC Endpoint Policies
AWS Key Management Service now allows you to define VPC Endpoint policies, enabling you to increase the granularity of your security controls by specifying which principals can access your endpoint, which API calls they can make, and which resources they can address. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for querying Apache Hudi datasets in Amazon S3-based data lake
Amazon Athena now supports querying the read-optimized view of an Apache Hudi dataset in your Amazon S3-based data lake. Read More for the details.

GCP – Next OnAir as it happens: All the announcements in one place
Across our keynote presentations and breakout sessions over the nine weeks of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, we’ll be sharing a wealth of news and updates on all things cloud. And we want to make sure you don’t miss a thing. Check back in with this blog each week to see a running list of […]

Azure – Azure Site Recovery now supports replication with private links
Ensure a secure channel for replication of your Azure and on-premises workloads with the help of private links capability of Azure and Site Recovery. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Private Link for Azure SignalR Service
Use private endpoint to connect to Azure SignalR Service. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Primer
We’re excited to announce Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Primer. This digital, hour-long intermediate course teaches you how to support your Windows-based applications and workloads with Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Featuring self-paced modules and video demonstrations, the course is ideal for storage engineers, file server administrators, and cloud architects. Read More for […]