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AWS – AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads in five additional AWS Regions
AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm using AWS Graviton2 is now available in: Europe (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager announces the launch of on-call schedules
We are excited to announce that Incident Manager now provides on-call schedules, to help you have 24/7 coverage and responsiveness for critical issue. This extends Incident Manager’s capabilities for incident response, helping operations teams more quickly engage, respond, and resolve application availability and performance issues when they occur. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore
Unlock the full potential of the Azure ecosystem with a MongoDB compatible database that simply works. A new architecture designed to provide seamless integration and unbeatable performance. Read More for the details.
AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2023.0 with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
NICE DCV version 2023.0 introduces multiple enhancements and features, such as support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and monitor selection for a full-screen remote session on Linux and macOS clients. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that is designed to help customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics […]
AWS – AWS Copilot adds support for full customization with AWS CDK or YAML overrides
Today, AWS released new version 1.27 of AWS Copilot that enables customers to fully customize AWS Cloud Formation templates, which AWS Copilot uses to provision the service, environment, pipeline, and job resources. Customers can now use AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or YAML patches to change any property of those AWS resources. AWS Copilot is […]
AWS – Bottlerocket adds support for FireLens
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system that is purpose built to host container workloads, now supports FireLens. Customers using Bottlerocket with Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) can now benefit from a simpler way to collect logs from Bottlerocket nodes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena adds minimum encryption to enhance query result security
Amazon Athena has expanded its encryption settings to improve the security of your query results. With today’s launch, you can now ensure all query results are encrypted at or above a level of encryption that you specify. Read More for the details.
GCP – Process to drop partitions concurrently within PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL or AlloyDB)
Disclaimer: Please note that this script is not by any means an official script released by Google Cloud, it can only be used for education and guidance purposes. Anyone who would like to use this automation method in their production environment must first customize the script and own it from a development and support perspective. […]
GCP – Jump start your future career with Google Cloud certifications
Ever since I published “Career tips and no-cost training for the next generation of cloud technology,” people have been asking me how to turn the trends introduced in the blog post into career growth. As I said in the blog post, these new ways that businesses are using the cloud come with the need for […]
GCP – Lighting the way: How ASML revived Moore’s Law and remade chipmaking
Declaring the death of Moore’s Law has become something of a popular pastime in tech circles, based on the assumption that chips will have to stop doubling in power every two years because there has to be a limit to how many transistors can fit on them. Right? And yet, chipmakers continue to defy expectations […]