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GCP – Announcing Cloud SQL Node.js connector general availability
The Cloud SQL Node.js connector is the easiest way to securely connect your Node.js application to your Cloud SQL database. With today’s General Availability announcement, we now recommend using the Cloud SQL Node.js connector. When to use the Cloud SQL Node.js connector Cloud SQL has two types of connectors: Language-specific connectors – Available for Java, […]
GCP – FLUIDEFI nets 3X gains in processing speed with AlloyDB to address DeFi industry challenges
Editor’s Note: FLUIDEFI® is a SaaS platform for institutional investors in the decentralized finance space — a complex industry to navigate because of its volatility, fragmented nature, and lack of clear governance. By providing risk qualification, portfolio modeling, and other services, FLUIDEFI fulfills an important market need. Migrating to AlloyDB has netted FLUIDEFI 3X gains […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late September 2023
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2023. This month, I’m turning the mic over to my colleague Eric Brewer, Google Cloud’s vice president of infrastructure and Google Fellow, to explain the importance of this year’s Securing Open Source Software Summit and why securing open source code is one of the most crucial […]
AWS – Announcing the Amazon GameLift Plugin for Unreal Engine
We are excited to announce that Unreal Engine (UE) game developers can now more quickly access and integrate with Amazon GameLift with a new standalone plugin for UE. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows developers to quickly manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon GameLift Plugin […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports AWS CloudTrail logging for the Publish and PublishBatch API actions. By logging these data events, you can get details on when and who made API calls to Amazon SNS, thereby enhancing data visibility for security and operations teams, enabling governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g, M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Spain). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors. The AWS Nitro System […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 new EC2 instance types as well as multi-attached EBS volumes
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 153 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. The newly supported instance types include the latest generation general-purpose instances (M7g, M7i, M7i-flex, M7a, M6a), compute optimized instances (C7gn, C7g), memory optimized instances (R7g, R7iz, R6id, R6a, X2iezn), storage optimized instances (I4g, I4i), and high-performance-computing (HPC) optimized instances (Hpc7g, […]
AWS – AWS Backup for Amazon FSx NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, Lustre in 7 more Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Windows File Server, and Lustre in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv) and Middle East (UAE) Regions. AWS Backup is a policy-based, fully managed and cost-effective solution that enables you to centralize and […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Amplify JavaScript v6 developer preview
Today, we are announcing the developer preview of the AWS Amplify JavaScript Library v6 which includes reduced bundle sizes, richer TypeScript support, and integrations with Next.js server-side features. The AWS Amplify JavaScript Library enables frontend developers to connect their web and React Native apps to AWS cloud backends. In this developer preview, Amplify JavaScript now […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service now supports automated agent installation
Starting today, you can use AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) to prepare your environment for the migration process using the MGN connector directly from the AWS Application Migration Service console. Read More for the details.