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AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud
Today, AWS announces AWS Service Catalog support for HashiCorp Terraform Cloud. With this launch, customers using Terraform Cloud can provide self-service provisioning with governance to their teams. AWS customers can now use Service Catalog as the single tool to organize, govern, and distribute their Terraform configurations within AWS at scale. Customers can access Service Catalog […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier
Azure Blob Storage Cold Tier is an online tier specifically designed for efficiently storing data that is infrequently accessed or modified, all while ensuring immediate availability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 68 – August 2023
This article describes the improvements for the latest version of Azure Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.

Azure – WordPress on App Service: Integration with Azure Communication Services Email
Facilitates communication and drives engagement without requiring 3rd party plugins Read More for the details.

GCP – Create PromQL alerts in Cloud Monitoring now in Public Preview
Last year, we introduced Managed Service for Prometheus so that you can scale your Prometheus environment more easily that hosting it yourself. As part of that announcement, we also added support for Prometheus’ popular PromQL query language in Cloud Monitoring. Since then, we’ve heard from experienced and new Prometheus users that they’d like to manage […]

GCP – Memorystore adds version support for Redis 7.0
Memorystore is a fully managed caching service that supports the open-source in-memory databases Redis and Memcached. Memorystore makes it easy for applications built on Google Cloud to leverage in-memory data stores based on open-source Redis and Memcached. With a single click, Memorystore for Redis offers a highly available, zonally redundant Redis instance with automatic fast […]

GCP – Reduce Airflow DAG parse times in Cloud Composer
This comprehensive blog presents various approaches for monitoring, troubleshooting, and minimizing DAG parse times, leading to notable performance improvements in Cloud Composer / Airflow: Increase environment scalability by efficiently handling larger workloads and accommodating more DAGs. Improve environment stability by limiting the chance of task overlaps and resource contention. Enhance productivity and overall efficiency for […]

GCP – BigQuery now supports manifest files for querying open table formats
In this blog we will give you an overview of the manifest support for BigQuery and also explain how it enables querying open table formats like Apache Hudi and Delta Lake in BigQuery. Open table formats rely on embedded metadata to provide transactionally consistent DML and time travel features. They keep different versions of the […]
GCP – Future-proofing your SAP HANA deployment on Google Cloud with SUSE for scale-out high availability
Google Cloud is delighted to introduce the latest offering in the area of SAP HANA Scale-out high availability deployment, a new automated deployment guide powered byTerraform Google Cloud Platform Provider. Scaling out refers to the process of combining multiple independent Compute Engine instances to create a unified SAP system. This approach is primarily adopted to […]