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Azure – Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator
New Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a Docker Container encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in August 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor public preview including Azure SQL database available as reference data input and output sink, diagnostic logs available for troubleshooting, and new designed ribbon. Read More for the details.
GCP – Four non-traditional paths to a cloud career (and how to navigate them)
One thing I love about cloud is that it’s possible to succeed as a cloud engineer from all kinds of different starting points. It’s not necessarily easy; our industry remains biased toward hiring people who check a certain set of boxes such as having a university computer science degree. But cloud in particular is new […]
GCP – Connect Gateway and ArgoCD: Deploy to Distributed Kubernetes
Integrating your ArgoCD deployment with Connect Gateway and Workload Identity provides a seamless path to deploy to Kubernetes on many platforms. ArgoCD can easily be configured to centrally manage various cluster platforms including GKE clusters, Anthos clusters, and many more. This promotes consistency across your fleet, saves time in onboarding a new cluster, and simplifies […]
GCP – Pro tools for Pros: Industry leading observability capabilities for Dataflow
Dataflow is the industry-leading unified platform offering batch and stream processing. It is a fully managed service that comes with flexible development options (from Flex Templates & Notebooks to Apache Beam SDKs for Java, Python and Go) and a rich set of built-in management tools. It comes with seamless integrations with all Google Cloud products, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for queues by name, description and tags
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for queues in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for queues by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all queues with “priority” in the description. To learn more […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to search for routing profiles by name, description, and tags.
Amazon Connect now provides a new API to search for routing profiles in your Amazon Connect instance. This new API provides a programmatic and flexible way to search for routing profiles by name, description, or tags. For example, you can now use this API to search for all routing profiles containing “sales” in the description. […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus Alert Manager & Ruler logs now available in Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now provides Alert Manager & Ruler logs to help customers troubleshoot their alerting pipeline and configuration in Amazon CloudWatch Logs. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds check for Microsoft Windows Server end of support on Amazon EC2
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports a new check that recommends options for Microsoft Windows Server end of support (EOS) on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The check inspects your Microsoft Windows Server workloads and automatically lists your Microsoft Windows Server instances that are at EOS or nearing EOS. For example, Microsoft Windows Server 2012/2012 […]
AWS – AWS Fargate is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Fargate, the serverless compute engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region. Fargate allows customers to deploy and manage containerized applications without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Fargate makes it easier to scale applications and helps improve security through application isolation by design. Read […]