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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for MongoDB 5.0 wire protocol and client-side field level encryption
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) continues to increase compatibility with MongoDB, and now offers added support for MongoDB 5.0 drivers with Amazon DocumentDB 5.0. Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB API based workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, index, and […]

GCP – Unlocking Retail Location Data with CARTO and BigQuery
Retail companies put geospatial data to use to solve all manner of challenges. Data that is tied to location is vital to understanding customers and solving business problems. Say you’re a Director of Leasing who needs to choose the location for a new store. You’ll need to know your potential customers’ demographics, the products being […]

GCP – Developer research deep dive: Let’s build faster together
We like hearing feedback, and you’re not shy about giving it to us. Excellent! Each day, you reach us through our Twitter account, Innovator’s Program forums, and even when we meet in person at industry events. Your feedback helps us better understand what you need, what’s not working right, and how we can make your […]

GCP – Reimagining telecommunications at MWC 2023
Communications Service Providers’ (CSP) services have never been more in demand from consumers and businesses around the world. But to meet that demand, as well as drive new growth and differentiation in the midst of industry disruption, CSPs must themselves transform — including restructuring the cost base of their technology estate, unlocking the full power […]

GCP – Thrive in turbulent times: lower costs and boost productivity with ChromeOS
A new year means a new start to re-evaluate priorities, set goals, and prepare your business for the upcoming months. IT leaders at companies of every size and shape face a critical challenge: how to make progress on multiple major initiatives at the same time. You are working to drive productivity, mitigate security threats, and […]

Azure – Disclosure: In-tree disk and file drivers will no longer be supported starting in Kubernetes v1.26
Migrate your existing in-tree disk and file volumes to CSI drivers using provided guidance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Detective adds graph visualization for interactive security investigations
Amazon Detective finding groups now include a dynamic visual representation of Detective’s behavior graph to emphasize the relationships between security findings and the associated entities within a finding group. This addition makes it easier for customers to triage potential security issues with at-a-glance visuals that include finding types, severity levels, associated account(s), and linkages within […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.03 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.26) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) supports MySQL 8.0.26. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, MySQL 8.0.26 includes several changes, such as enhanced tablespace file segment page configuration and new aliases for certain identifier names. For more details, please review Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.26 release […]

AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS supports Proactive Insights
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports Proactive Insights, a new set of findings that inform you of impending database performance and availability issues before they become critical. With Proactive Insights, Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS continuously monitors database instances for potential issues that can lead to degraded database health in the future. When such […]
Azure – General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot
Azure Network Watcher announces enhanced connection troubleshoot helping resolve network connectivity issue comprehensively along with actionable insights Read More for the details.