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AWS – AWS Incident Detection and Response now available in 16 additional AWS regions
Starting today, AWS Incident Detection and Response is now available in 16 additional AWS regions. This service provides AWS Enterprise Support customers with proactive engagement and incident management, aimed at minimizing the risk of failures and accelerating the recovery of your critical workloads. AWS experts will assess your workloads for resilience, observability, and create customized […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M8g instances in Dallas Local Zone. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and built for general-purpose workloads, such as application servers, microservices, gaming servers, midsize data stores, and caching fleets. AWS Graviton4-based Amazon EC2 instances deliver the best performance and energy […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports Data API for Aurora MySQL
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now allows customers to monitor queries run through the RDS Data API for Aurora MySQL clusters. The RDS Data API provides an HTTP endpoint to run SQL statements on an Amazon Aurora DB cluster. With this launch, customers are now able to use Performance Insights to monitor the […]
AWS – Amazon RDS announces cross-region automated backups in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town)
Cross-Region Automated Backup replication for Amazon RDS is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. This launch allows you to setup automated backup replication between Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai); and between Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), or Europe (Frankfurt) Regions. Automated Backups enable recovery capability […]
AWS – AWS Partner Central now supports dedicated Slack channels for collaboration on co-selling opportunities
AWS Partners can now request dedicated Slack channels through AWS Partner Central to collaborate with AWS sales teams on ACE co-selling opportunities. This feature helps simplify communication, ensuring all members stay updated on deal progression, enabling better collaboration and more efficient deal closure for strategic customer engagements. Partners can request a Slack channel for an […]
GCP – FEDRAMP High Development in the Cloud: Code with Cloud Workstations
In the demanding world of federal software development, teams are constantly challenged to deliver innovative solutions while upholding the highest security standards. The complexity of scaling teams, managing infrastructure, and ensuring consistent development environments can quickly become overwhelming. In a recent webinar featuring Forrester, Devin Dickerson, Principal Analyst at Forrester, discussed the results of a […]
GCP – How AlloyDB unifies OLTP and OLAP workloads for Tricent
Editor’s Note: Tricent Security Group A/S, a leader in file-sharing security, faced efficiency and performance challenges with their PostgreSQL database infrastructure. Their OLTP workloads needed to process millions of real-time updates efficiently, while their OLAP workloads needed faster query performance to handle complex analytics. Moving to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL helped transform Tricent’s database operations, resulting […]
GCP – Delfingen accelerates a cloud-first strategy with Google
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Etienne Grivelet, Chief Technology Officer for Delfingen Group, a global supplier and manufacturer for the automotive industry. As part of its digital transformation plans, Delfingen has adopted ChromeOS, Chrome Enterprise, Google Workspace, Cameyo, and Google Cloud. How can a global automotive product manufacturing company, with employees spread across borders, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports final validation time for instance refresh
Starting today, you can utilize a final validation period while using EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. This new feature gives you time to conduct necessary validation or testing, ensuring the successful deployment of new EC2 instances to your Auto Scaling group before an instance refresh is marked successful. With an instance refresh, you can update […]
AWS – AWS announces UDP support for AWS PrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers
Today, we are launching support for the UDP protocol on AWS PrivateLink over IPv4 and IPv6, and on AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) over IPv6. Until now, AWS PrivateLink only supported TCP, while NLB supported UDP only over IPv4. This launch enables customers who use AWS PrivateLink and clients that use IPv6 to access UDP-based […]