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AWS – Achieve faster database failover with the Amazon Web Services JDBC Driver for MySQL
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java (JDBC) Driver for MySQL is now generally available for use with your Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora MySQL-compatible edition database clusters. This database driver minimizes failover time by monitoring database cluster status and caching the cluster’s topology. The cache is then used to improve DNS name resolution speed if a […]
GCP – Extending network reachability of Vertex AI Pipelines
Vertex AI Pipelines and jobs use the Service Networking API to configure their networking. As such, they will run in a Google-owned VPC network in tenant project that is peered to the network in your project. This peering is subject to the following standard VPC Peering networking constraints; The Google-owned network has its own default […]
AWS – AWS Data Provider for SAP now supports JDK11 and additional Amazon EC2 instance types
AWS Data Provider for SAP version 4.1 is now available in all commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension – Azure Data Studio
Use the new SKU recommendation support in the Azure SQL Migration extension in Azure Data Studio for Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL—Public preview updates for early March 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure SQL—General availability updates for early March 2022
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB partitioning Spark 3.1
Use Azure Synapse Spark 3.1 to partition your Azure Cosmos DB data in analytical store for improved query performance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Specify API language runtime version in Azure Static Web Apps
Configuration file now allows you to specify version for supported API language runtimes. Read More for the details.
GCP – How your company catches the AI wave(s)
Business leaders see much in Artificial Intelligence, including new ways to save money, serve customers, and figure out what to build. What’s often tougher is deciding how to engage. That’s understandable, since getting into AI often raises questions about costs, data integrity, project length, and similar issues of planning and execution. For CIOs concerned with […]
GCP – Congratulations Knative on becoming part of the CNCF
On November 30th, 2021, Google submitted Knative to be considered as an incubating project, which began the process for handing over the project to be managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today we are pleased to acknowledge the completion of this process, allowing the next phase of community-driven innovation in Knative to begin. […]