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AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports enforcing SSL/TLS connections
Amazon RDS for MySQL supports encrypted SSL/TLS connections to the database instances. Starting today, you can enforce SSL/TLS client connections to your RDS for MySQL database instance for enhanced transport layer security. To enforce SSL/TLS, simply enable the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) through the Amazon RDS Management Console, the AWS CLI or the API. […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches new base maps for geospatial visualizations
QuickSight Authors can now customize the look and feel of their maps by changing to any of the new base maps supported by Amazon QuickSight. Streets – Authors can now add location details with streets base map. This base map emphasizes legible styling for highways, major roads, minor roads, railways, water features, cities, parks, landmarks, […]
Azure – General availability: Application Insights in China North 3 and China East 3
Application Insights, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in China North 3 and China East 3 regions for you to collect telemetry and analyze your service health in production environments. Read More for the details.
GCP – Keeping track of shipments minute by minute: How Mercado Libre uses real-time analytics for on-time delivery
Iteration and innovation fuel the data-driven culture at Mercado Libre. In our first post, we presented our continuous intelligence approach, which leverages BigQuery and Looker to create a data ecosystem on which people can build their own models and processes. Using this framework, the Shipping Operations team was able to build a new solution that […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now includes advanced log and application analytics
Amazon OpenSearch Service, with the availability of OpenSearch 1.3., now gives customers the ability to organize their logs, traces and visualizations in an application-centric view. Customers can also benefit from enhanced log monitoring support with live tailing of logs, the ability to see surrounding log data, and the ability to do powerful ad-hoc analysis of […]
Azure – General availability: Next hop IP support for Route Server
Peer Route Server with network virtual appliances (NVAs) deployed behind an Azure Internal Load Balancer (ILB). Read More for the details.
AWS – Bottlerocket is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed to run container workloads, is now available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: US West 3 price adjustment
Pricing adjustment to bring value to our Azure customers in western US regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: AMD-based confidential VMs for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Announcing the public preview of confidential node pools on AKS with AMD SEV-SNP confidential VMs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Cloud Analytics by MITRE Engenuity Center in collaboration with Google Cloud
The cybersecurity industry is faced with the tremendous challenge of analyzing growing volumes of security data in a dynamic threat landscape with evolving adversary behaviors. Today’s security data is heterogeneous, including logs and alerts, and often comes from more than one cloud platform. In order to better analyze that data, we’re excited to announce the […]