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AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis announces 99.99% availability Service Level Agreement
Amazon Elasticache for Redis now offers an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% when using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration. Previously, ElastiCache for Redis offered an SLA of 99.9% for Multi-AZ configurations. With this launch, ElastiCache for Redis has updated its Multi-AZ SLA to provide 10x higher levels of availability. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager announces integration of Automation with Change Calendar
Today, we are excited to announce integration of Systems Manager Automation with Systems Manager Change Calendar. Customers can now reduce the risks associated with changes to their production environment by allowing Automation runbooks to run during an allowed time window. With this feature, users in your account can only run automations during the time periods […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow announces 4 new data connectors
Amazon AppFlow announces the release of 4 new connectors that include Braintree, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle HCM and Zoho CRM. Amazon AppFlow is continually expanding its catalog of connectors to popular SaaS applications and these four new data connectors make it easier for customers to access their data for use cases across marketing, eCommerce, customer […]
AWS – AWS announces Credential Guard support for Windows instances on Amazon EC2
Amazon Web Services(AWS) today announced support for Credential Guard, a Windows Virtualization Based Security (VBS) feature. Credential guard uses VBS isolation to prevent the extraction of Windows login credentials from OS memory. When Credential Guard is turned on, login credentials cannot be used from another host or after a user has logged out. With the […]
AWS – AWS Artifact on-demand access to third-party compliance reports is now generally available
The new third-party reports tab on the AWS Artifact Reports page provides on-demand access to security compliance reports of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who sell their products through AWS Marketplace. AWS customers interested in buying third-party software products from AWS Marketplace can download and review the security compliance reports shared by the ISV via AWS […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches Concurrency Scaling in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery authorized views permissions via Terraform, avoiding the chicken & egg problem
Enterprises that use Terraform for spinning up their Infrastructure, including the instantiation of Google BigQuery, can run into a chicken & egg problem if using the IAM access permissions resource blocks for both their Datasets and Authorized Views. This problem can cause BigQuery operational issues across an organization, creating an unpleasant experience for the end-user […]
GCP – You get what you pay for: Principles for designing a chargeback process
Principles for designing a chargeback process As large organizations increase their cloud footprint, it becomes critical to ensure costs are being managed effectively. A good understanding of the cost of running each workload, and the value that workload brings to your business, allows organizations to have confidence in the efficiency of their cloud consumption — […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: Lytics launches secure data sharing and enrichment solution on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Background and Context A Customer Data Platform (CDP) provides a monolithic view of the customer by collecting data from various sources to provide accessibility across different systems. CDPs are becoming increasingly vital as companies look […]
GCP – Establish consistent business language and improve trust in your data
Today we announce the Dataplex business glossary, now available in public preview. Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that provides a way to manage, monitor, and govern your distributed data at scale. Dataplex business glossary offers users a cloud-native way to maintain and manage their business terms and definitions, establishing consistent business language, improving trust […]