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GCP – Large scale hybrid API management: Best practices in configuring clusters, scaling, and operations
Competing and staying relevant in an economy that has almost become digital-first overnight, required organizations to rethink their API strategy, and in many cases, a hybrid cloud approach. As we uncovered in our 2022 research into API usage, 59% of respondents were planning to increase their hybrid cloud adoption in the next 12 months. But […]
GCP – Harden your Kubernetes clusters and monitor workload compliance at scale with new PCI DSS policy bundle
PCI DSS is a set of network security and business best practices guidelines adopted by the PCI Security Standards Council to establish a “minimum security standard” to protect customers’ payment card information. Google Cloud undergoes a third-party audit to certify individual products against the PCI DSS at least annually, and customers can build off of […]
GCP – Transform SQL into SQLX for Dataform
Introduction Developing in SQL poses significant problems when compared to other languages and frameworks. It’s not easy to reuse statements across different scripts, there’s no way to write tests to ensure data consistency, and dependency management requires external software solutions. Developers will typically write thousands of lines of SQL to ensure data processing occurs in […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Tokyo) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.41 and 8.0.32
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.41 and 8.0.32. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community. Read More […]
Azure – Generally Available: Serverless Real-Time Inference in Azure Databricks
Serverless Real-Time Inference in Azure Databricks for model serving is now generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Now available: “Find my partner” for Azure Data Explorer
Find partners for Azure Data Explorer. Our new partner program aims to connect customers and partners with ease. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync is now available in 3 additional AWS Regions
AWS DataSync is now available in the Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) AWS Regions. You can now use DataSync to copy data between on-premises, edge, or other cloud storage and AWS Storage services, as well as between AWS Storage services, within each of these new AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Service Management Connector for Jira Service Management customer portal
Starting today, customers can search, provision, terminate, update and use self-service actions on products from AWS Service Catalog through Atlassian’s Jira Service Management Cloud customer portal via AWS Service Management Connector. This feature enables Jira Service Management end users who are registered users of the Atlassian site but are not Jira agents to provision resources […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Kolkata, India
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location in Kolkata, India. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Kolkata location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the details.