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Azure – Public preview: Azure Functions .NET 8 support in Linux plans
Azure Functions now supports .NET 8 preview 7, using the isolated worker model. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service supports additional modernization actions
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) supports additional application validation, configuration and modernization actions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PL/Rust in versions 13 and 14
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the Rust programming language as a new trusted procedural language in PostgreSQL major versions 13 and 14, expanding support for Rust from major version 15. This helps you build high performance user-defined functions to extend PostgreSQL for compute-intensive data processing. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview – Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service
The new Azure Portal experience for Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) allows you to perform seamless migrations from SQL Server on-premises to Azure SQL targets using DMS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Universal geo restore on Azure Database for MySQL- Flexible Server
Restore Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server to any Azure supported region. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, 11.20. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure SQL updates for late-August 2023
General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in late-August 2023. Read More for the details.
GCP – Harnessing the power of PaLM in BigQuery
IDC estimates that by 2025, there will be 175 zettabytes of data in the world, and 80% of that data will be unstructured. However, 90% of unstructured data is never analyzed. That’s because it can be cumbersome, expensive and risky to extract and transform unstructured data, requiring multiple tools. As such, it’s rarely used in […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner Data Boost: Analyze operational data isolated from transactional workloads
As organizations continue to digitally transform, one of the major barriers they face is how to safely run analytical and reporting queries or large batch jobs against live operational databases without risking disruptions. Database owners implement strict controls and limits on data sharing scenarios because these queries can consume a lot of resources — and […]
GCP – Simplifying best practices at scale with auto-generated keys in Cloud Spanner
Innovators in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner to power demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. Built on Google’s distributed infrastructure, Spanner provides a fully managed experience with the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale. In a continued push to meet developers […]