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AWS – Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports X2iedn instances for MySQL and PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS now supports X2iedn DB instances for RDS for MySQL and on RDS for PostgreSQL. The X2iedn instances are ideal for read-intensive and high throughput write workloads. X2iedn instances support recently announced features such as Amazon RDS Optimized Writes and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys posts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports Amazon Graviton2 (M6g, C6g, R6g, and R6gd) instances in four additional regions
We are excited to announce support for the Amazon Graviton2 instance family in four additional regions. Supported instance types include general purpose (M6g), compute optimized (C6g), and memory optimized (R6g and R6GD) instances. Support for C6g, M6g, R6g and R6gd is available in the Europe (Paris) region. In addition, the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams announces ingestion and storage support for Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC (Preview)
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams now offers fully managed capabilities to stream video and audio in real-time from Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standards compliant cameras, IoT devices and browsers to the cloud for secured storage, playback and analytical processing. Customers can now use our enhanced WebRTC SDK and cloud APIs to enable real-time streaming as well […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: December 2022
Welcome to December’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re going to look back at the most important security lessons of 2022 with my colleagues in our Office of the CISO and on the Google Cybersecurity Action Team. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. […]
GCP – New control plane connectivity and isolation options for your GKE clusters
Once upon a time, all Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters used public IP addressing for communication between nodes and the control plane. Subsequently, we heard your security concerns and introduced private clusters enabled by VPC peering. To consolidate the connectivity types, starting in March 2022, we began using Google Cloud’s Private Service Connect (PSC) for […]
GCP – Understanding Cloud Load Balancing for hybrid and multicloud environments
Today’s enterprise applications are often assembled across distributed environments. This includes the integration of services across multi-cloud, multi-SaaS and on-premises environments. While the approach has the advantage of enabling enterprises to choose the best service available to support their applications, it adds the complexity of delivering services across heterogeneous environments. To solve this, Cloud Load […]
GCP – 2022 was a year spent turning sustainable ambitions into action
Since I joined Google Cloud at the start of 2022, one theme that comes up time and time again in conversations with leaders both at our customers and partners is this: meaningful Climate Action is now about business transformation, and business transformation is essential if society is to meet its ever-more-urgent climate goals.. We spent […]
GCP – Inspiring the next generation of cloud professionals with Google’s Career Readiness Program
Like many states across the U.S., Kentucky experienced significant job shortages when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in spring of 2020. In the first four months of the pandemic alone, Kentucky’s workforce shrank by 112,000. Cloud computing talent gaps in the state have been particularly acute – with more than 1,000 open cloud roles in 2022 […]
GCP – 2022 Research Innovators celebrate achievements as applications open for 2023
In 2020, Google Cloud launched the Research Innovators program to encourage scientific breakthroughs with the latest cloud technologies. With access to Google experts and support from peers, research innovators are able to fast-track their projects for real-world impact. They receive additional Google Cloud research credits, support to share their work, speaking opportunities, complimentary admission to […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.9.24
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.9.24, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.9.20. Read More for the details.