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GCP – Minimal Downtime Migrations to Cloud Spanner with HarbourBridge 2.0
Spanner is a fully managed, strongly consistent and highly available database providing up to 99.999% availability. It is also very easy to create your Spanner instance and point your application to it. But what if you want to migrate your schema and data from another database to Cloud Spanner? The common challenges with database migrations […]
AWS – Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless jobs in near real-time using CloudWatch metrics
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that makes it simple for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports PostgreSQL major version 14
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Proxy now supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL-compatibilie edition and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL running major version 14. PostgreSQL 14 concists of performance improvements for parallel queries, heavily-concurrent workloads, partitioned tables, logical replication, and vacuuming. PostgreSQL 14 also improves functionality with new capabilities. For example, you can cancel long-running queries if […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon EBS direct APIs now support the IPv6 protocol, so that applications to connect through EBS direct APIs over IPv6. EBS direct APIs enable customers to simplify their backup and recovery workflows by directly creating and reading EBS snapshots via APIs. With this change, customers can meet their IPv6 compliance needs, integrate with existing IPv6-based […]
AWS – Advanced Notice: Amazon S3 will automatically enable S3 Block Public Access and disable access control lists for all new buckets starting in April 2023
Starting in April 2023, Amazon S3 will introduce two new default bucket security settings by automatically enabling S3 Block Public Access and disabling S3 access control lists (ACLs) for all new S3 buckets. Once complete, these defaults will apply to all new buckets regardless of how they are created, including AWS CLI, APIs, SDKs, and […]
GCP – Running database migrations with Cloud Run Jobs
Back when Cloud Run was still in its public preview stage in 2019, I wrote about a dozen reasons why Cloud Run complies with the Twelve-Factor App methodology. That article described how Cloud Run covered most of the twelve factors of application development. However the twelfth factor — Admin Processes — was noted as “outside […]
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region
Amazon MQ is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region. With this launch, Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 27 regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension
Azure Automation announces General Availability of Azure Automation Hybrid Runbook Worker Extension Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches more granular access controls (using resource tags) for security profiles
You can now enable more granular access controls for security profiles by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a security profile allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific security profile. For example, you can now tag all security profiles assigned to users within […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches more granular access controls (using resource tags) for users
You can now enable granular access controls for users by configuring resource tags within the Amazon Connect admin website. Tagging a user allows you to configure granular permissions and define who is able to access a specific user record. For example, you can now tag users with Team:Innovators and then only let the Innovators team […]