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Azure – General Availability: Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 Disk and Ultra Disk Storage
Incremental snapshots for Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Disk Storage with instant restore capability are now generally available (GA) Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure VNet flow logs
Gain visibility of IP traffic flowing through your Virtual Networks Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Terraform support for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Now you can use Terraform for unified inventory and management operations for Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Storage auto-grow & online disk scaling for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server
With auto-grow enabled, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server will automatically increase the size of your provisioned storage. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: 99th percentile latency metric in Azure Cache for Redis
Debug server-side latency with a new Azure Cache for Redis metric. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Simplified flush operation for caches using active geo-replication
Flush all data from active geo-replicated caches using the portal, PowerShell, or CLI. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Active Directory integration with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Now you can use Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication on Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL clusters. Read More for the details.

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early August 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2023. Today I’ll be discussing why I consider myself a short-term pessimist, long-term optimist when it comes to cybersecurity — which may come as a surprise to many. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]

GCP – Modular GKE Ingress with the Gateway API
Objective Gateway API for Kubernetes Ingress can handle a wider set of functionalities than that of original Kubernetes Ingress. In this blog we will have a look at the implementation of Gateway on Google Kubernetes Engine(GKE). We will see how to initially set it up, and monitor it in GKE. We will also look […]
GCP – Cl/CD for Gitlab repositories with Cloud Build repositories Gen2
The trailhead for any path to production starts at source control. The integration of Cloud Build, as the automation tool, with the source repository is therefore crucial to increasing the delivery speed and ultimately becoming a high-performing organization. In this article we look at two exciting new capabilities of the recently launched second generation of […]