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AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS for Oracle zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift enables near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) to analyze petabytes of transactional data in Amazon Redshift without complex data pipelines for extract-transform-load (ETL) operations. Within seconds of data being written to Amazon RDS for Oracle, the data is replicated to Amazon Redshift. With Zero-ETL integrations, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Instance Connect and EC2 Serial console are also available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia), AWS Asia Pacific (Thailand) and AWS Mexico (Central) regions. EC2 Instance Connect allows customers to connect to their instances over Secure Shell (SSH) with a single click from the EC2 console and single command from the AWS […]
GCP – How SUSE and Google Cloud collaborate on Confidential Computing
Securing sensitive data is a crucial part of moving workloads to the cloud. While encrypting data at rest and in transit are standard security practices, safeguarding data in use — while it’s actively being processed in memory — can present unique security and privacy challenges. To make sure that data in use is also protected, […]
GCP – Celebrating 10 years of GKE: Incredible customer journeys, amazing AI futures
The evolution of the cloud has been tremendous over the past decade. Every step of the way, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has been there to meet new challenges. From giving DevOps more scalable foundations to supporting the rise of cloud-native AI, we took Kubernetes’ brilliance and gave it the fully managed service it deserved to […]
GCP – From Help Desk to Hypervisor: Defending Your VMware vSphere Estate from UNC3944
Introduction In mid 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GITG) identified a sophisticated and aggressive cyber campaign targeting multiple industries, including retail, airline, and insurance. This was the work of UNC3944, a financially motivated threat group that has exhibited overlaps with public reporting of “0ktapus,” “Octo Tempest,” and “Scattered Spider.” Following public alerts from the Federal […]
GCP – Beyond Convenience: Exposing the Risks of VMware vSphere Active Directory Integration
Written by: Stuart Carrera, Brian Meyer Executive Summary Broadcom’s VMware vSphere product remains a popular choice for private cloud virtualization, underpinning critical infrastructure. Far from fading, organizations continue to rely heavily on vSphere for stability and control. We’re also seeing a distinct trend where critical workloads are being repatriated from public cloud services to these […]
AWS – Amazon ECR now supports exceptions to tag immutability
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now allows you specify exceptions to image tag immutability setting. You can now provide a list of tag filters to exempt certain tags from the tag immutability setting, allowing you to enforce immutability for most tags while retaining flexibility for others. ECR image tag settings allows you to control whether […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now supports 24xlarge memory-optimized instances
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB now offers 24xlarge memory-optimized instances, providing enhanced performance for demanding time-series workloads. This new instance type is generally available for both Single-AZ and Multi-AZ deployments, as well as Multi-AZ Read Replica clusters, enabling customers to scale their time-series database solutions. The 24xlarge instance delivers 96 vCPU, 768 GiB of memory, and […]
AWS – Amazon EBS io2 Block Express supports all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes are now available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, except China regions. io2 Block Express leverage the latest generation of EBS storage server architecture designed to deliver consistent sub-millisecond latency and 99.999% durability. With a single io2 Block Express volume, you can achieve 256,000 IOPS, 4GiB/s throughput, […]