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GCP – Reducing the storage impact of Point-in-Time Recovery
Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) is a critical capability for enterprise applications. It allows database administrators to recover from accidental data deletion by restoring their production databases to a time before the incident. Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL launched support for PITR in July 2020, allowing you to recover from disasters like data corruption or accidental deletion by […]
GCP – Access Control set up on Storage Transfer Service
Google Cloud Storage Transfer Service (STS) enables you to move or backup your data to a Cloud Storage bucket or POSIX file system. It offers flexibility and allows horizontal scaling, encryption and checksum verification. In most cases, storage administrators use this to migrate the whole file system including all files with different access rights. It […]
Azure – General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting
General availability: Automatic Backup for App Service Environment and Azure Functions Dedicated Hosting Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02 expected on February 21
Participate in the retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds support for job execution retries
Today, we are introducing a new capability for Amazon EMR on EKS to increase job execution resiliency. Until now, users had to build their own custom job execution retry mechanism outside of Amazon EMR on EKS, to make sure their Spark jobs keep running in case of failure. With this feature, users can now save […]
AWS – AWS Lambda launches new CloudWatch metrics for asynchronous invocations
AWS Lambda has launched three new metrics AsyncEventsReceived, AsyncEventAge and AsyncEventsDropped, to monitor the performance of asynchronous event processing. Until now, Lambda customers had little visibility into the processing of asynchronous requests and had to rely on Lambda service teams to resolve any processing delays leading to inefficiencies in asynchronous event processing. With these new […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports OAC with Elemental MediaStore origins
Amazon CloudFront enhanced its Origin Access Control (OAC) feature by adding support for AWS Elemental MediaStore. This enables customers to secure MediaStore origins with improved security, allowing only authorized CloudFront distributions to access them. Customers can now enable AWS Signature Version 4 (SigV4) on CloudFront requests for MediaStore origins and set when and if CloudFront […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower provides updates to access logging and exceptions to more global services for Region Deny
Today AWS Control Tower is launching Landing Zone 3.1. A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is a starting point from which you can deploy workloads and applications. AWS Control Tower automates the setup of a new landing zone using AWS best-practices blueprints for identity, federated access, logging, monitoring, and account structure. […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing to visualize, analyze, and debug application performance
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports active tracing with AWS X-Ray. Customers can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS topics to destination services, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, and PCI DSS workloads
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that allows data engineers to process and analyze large datasets using popular open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without having to configure, manage, and scale clusters. Read More for the details.