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AWS – AWS CloudShell is now available in 12 additional regions
AWS CloudShell is now generally available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Europe (Paris), Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), Middle East (UAE), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M7a instances (Preview)
AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7a instances. M7a instances are designed to deliver the best x86 performance and price performance within the Amazon EC2 general purpose family, based on SPECint benchmarks. M7a instances are powered by fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors (code named Genoa) with an all-core turbo frequency of […]
GCP – AlloyDB for PostgreSQL under the hood: Business continuity
One of the most significant advantages of running databases in the cloud is the ability to ensure business continuity. In a database context, it’s common to define continuity as a combination of database availability and data durability. AlloyDB is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database for demanding transactional workloads. AlloyDB employs rigorous business continuity and data resilience […]
GCP – New in Cloud Monitoring: Better tools for analysis, uptime checks, and alerts
We here on the Cloud Monitoring team have had a busy few months rolling out new capabilities to help you detect, troubleshoot, and remediate issues with your infrastructure and applications running on and outside of Google Cloud. We recently launched several new features to improve the visualization and troubleshooting experience and unify several key experiences […]
GCP – A guide for understanding and optimizing your Dataflow costs
Dataflow is the industry-leading platform that provides unified batch and streaming data processing capabilities, and supports a wide variety of analytics and machine learning use cases. It’s a fully managed service that comes with flexible development options (from Flex Templates and Notebooks to Apache Beam SDKs for Java, Python and Go), and a rich set […]
GCP – Top hacks from Cloud BI Hackathon 2022
Last December, we, the Looker team, hosted our annual Cloud BI Hackathon for our developer community to collaborate, learn, and inspire each other. Nearly 300 participants from over 80 countries joined our 43 hour long virtual hackathon. Our participants hacked away with our developer features, data modeling, and data visualizations to create more than 30 […]
GCP – Introducing client authentication with Mutual TLS on Google Cloud Load Balancing
We are excited to announce the Preview of front-end mutual TLS (mTLS) support, allowing you to offload client certificate authentication using External HTTPS Load Balancing. With TLS offload the load balancer presents a certificate on behalf of the server that the client uses to verify the server’s identity. Now with frontend mTLS offload, the load-balancer […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early June 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2023. Earlier this week, we held our annual Google Cloud Security Summit, an online gathering where we discuss the latest technologies and strategies that can help protect your business, your customers, and your cloud transformation from emerging threats. If you weren’t able to attend the online […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports migration via RMAN Transportable Tablespaces
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports physical data migration via Oracle Recovery Manager cross-platform Transportable Tablespaces (RMAN XTTS). As of today, you can migrate sets of tablespaces to RDS for Oracle using Oracle RMAN XTTS to simplify movement of large amounts of data and reduce application downtime for a physical data […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB supports minor versions 10.6.13, 10.5.20, 10.4.29, 10.3.39
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB now supports MariaDB minor versions 10.6.13, 10.5.20, 10.4.29, and 10.3.39. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MariaDB, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MariaDB community. […]