Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is available in four additional regions
Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions, AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) and Canada West (Calgary). The service provides fine-grained authorization for the applications that you build, allowing you to implement permissions as policies rather than application code. Your application calls Verified Permissions to authorize access to APIs and […]
Azure – Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Defender for Cloud supports Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
You can now protect Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Long-term retention for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server
The feature will allow you to retain/manage backups for up to 10 years in the standard tier according to your compliance and auditing needs. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server networking with Azure Private Link
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports Private Endpoints in General Availability. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Virtual private network (VPN) with Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra
For enhanced security in your virtual network architectures where outbound connectivity is not allowed. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Extensible key management using Azure Key Vault for SQL Server on Linux
Extensible key management (EKM) using Azure Key Vault in SQL Server on Linux is now generally available from SQL Server 2022 CU12 onwards. Read More for the details.
GCP – App Hub – Manage your application, forget the toil
Introducing App Hub Cloud applications depend on a complex interaction of services and cloud resources that they depend on — think databases, load balancers, and Kubernetes clusters. Developers spend significant time and effort navigating and classifying these to understand their composition and dependencies. This can be not only time-consuming, but fragile. While you may start […]
GCP – Expanded Confidential Computing portfolio and introducing Confidential Accelerators for AI workloads
Confidential Computing can help organizations process sensitive data in the cloud with strong guarantees around confidentiality. We’ve continued to make strides in maturing this important technology, and are collaborating with industry leaders including Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA on advancing Confidential Computing solutions. Today at Google Cloud Next, we are excited to announce advancements in our […]
GCP – Introducing ScaNN vector indexing in AlloyDB, bringing 12 years of Google research to speed up vector search
Over the past year, vector databases have skyrocketed in popularity, and have become the backbone of new semantic search and generative AI experiences. Developers use vector search for everything from product recommendations, to image search, to enhancing LLM-powered chatbots with retrieval augmented generation (RAG). PostgreSQL is one of the most popular operational databases on the […]