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AWS – MemoryDB is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon MemoryDB in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey and Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in GovCloud regions can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone introduces new designations in projects for members to perform specific tasks
Amazon DataZone launches new project designations allowing customers to configure project members to do specific tasks while collaborating with other members in a project. Amazon DataZone is a data management service for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. With the new designations in […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight expands integration with Amazon EventBridge
Amazon QuickSight now supports more events using Amazon EventBridge as an update to previously launched integration with Amazon EventBridge. By subscribing to QuickSight events in EventBridge, you can automate your workflows such as continuous deployment, and backups. These events are delivered to EventBridge in near real time. Developers can write simple rules to indicate which […]
GCP – From Cassandra to Bigtable: Database migration tips from Palo Alto Networks
In today’s data-driven world, businesses need database solutions that can handle massive data volumes, deliver lightning-fast performance, and maintain near-perfect uptime. This is especially true for companies with critical workloads operating at global scale, where downtime translates directly into lost revenue and frustrated customers. In this blog post, we examine how Palo Alto Networks, a […]
GCP – How The Home Depot is innovating with Google Cloud using the ABAP SDK
The Home Depot, the world’s largest home-improvement retailer, has been on a transformation journey on Google Cloud since 2017. We’ve harnessed the power of Google Cloud to enhance our customer experience, optimize critical SAP applications, and build an efficient and integrated supply chain. Our supply chain, fueled by a data platform on Google Cloud, is […]
GCP – Introducing Google Cloud’s new Vulnerability Reward Program
Vulnerability reward programs play a vital role in driving security forward. By incentivizing security research, vulnerabilities can be found and fixed by vendors before they are potentially exploited by malicious actors, protecting users and strengthening security posture. Also known as bug bounties, Google has long been a leader in supporting them, and they are now […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone launches support for AWS IAM Identity Center account instance
Today, Amazon DataZone announced support for account instances of AWS IAM Identity Center. Amazon DataZone administrators can now setup single sign-on (SSO) users through AWS IAM Identity Center without needing to have an organization configured through AWS Organizations. As an Amazon DataZone administrator, you can now enable AWS IAM Identity Center for a single AWS […]
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB announces user experience enhancements to organize your tables
Amazon DynamoDB is excited to announce enhancements to the DynamoDB console that enable customers to easily find frequently used tables. Now, customers can favorite their tables in the console’s tables page for quicker table access. Customers can click the favorites icon to view their favorited tables in the console’s tables page. With this update, customers […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployment with two readable standbys now supports AWS IAM database authentication
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys now supports using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for database authentication. With IAM support, you can now centrally manage access to your RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys along with other RDS deployments, instead of managing access individually. In addition, AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports local write forwarding
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now lets you forward write requests from Aurora read replicas to the writer instance, simplifying scaling read workloads that require read-after-write consistency. With this launch, local write forwarding is now available for both Aurora MySQL and Aurora PostgreSQL. With write forwarding, your applications can simply send both read and write requests […]