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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. […]
AWS – AWS announces new edge location in Nigeria
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Nigeria by launching a new edge location in Lagos. Customers in Nigeria can expect up to 20% improvement in latency, on average, for data delivered through the new edge location. The new AWS edge location brings the full suite of benefits provided by Amazon CloudFront, a highly distributed and […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata
Amazon Location Service now supports geofence metadata, allowing customers to associate up to three types of additional information (metadata) to a virtual perimeter of a real-world geographical area known as a geofence. With metadata, developers can enrich their applications with properties about each geofence, such as building floor, area designation, route ID, etc., to address […]
Azure – Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Utah version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6i and R6i instances are now available in AWS Region Middle East (UAE)
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6i and R6i instances are available in AWS Region Middle East (UAE). These instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator now supports endpoints in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to twenty-four. Read More for the details.