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AWS – Amazon MWAA is now PCI DSS compliant
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud. Customers can now use Amazon MWAA to manage workflows that store, process, […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports enforcing SSL/TLS connections
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB supports encrypted SSL/TLS connections to the database instances. Starting today, you can enforce SSL/TLS client connections to your Amazon RDS for MariaDB database instance for enhanced transport layer security. To enforce SSL/TLS, enable the require_secure_transport parameter (disabled by default) through the Amazon RDS Management Console, the AWS CLI […]
GCP – How to do multivariate time series forecasting in BigQuery ML
Companies across industries rely heavily on time series forecasting to project product demand, forecast sales, project online subscription/cancellation, and for many other use cases. This makes time series forecasting one of the most popular models in BigQuery ML. What is multivariate time series forecasting? For example, if you want to forecast ice cream sales, it […]
AWS – Amazon ECS announces the new default console experience
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) launched a new console experience for all users. The new Amazon ECS console makes it easier to deploy containerized applications, and configure load balancing, networking, and monitoring. The new Amazon ECS console also provides users with new workflows for effective operations and troubleshooting. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch launches cross-account Metric Streams
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for cross-account Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can include metrics that span across multiple AWS accounts within an AWS region in a single Metric Stream. This helps to reduce the number […]
GCP – Accelerating the grocery pickup experience with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from Craig Hutler, Digital Product Manager, Kroger. To better serve its customers, Kroger began working with Google Maps Platform to create the On My Way initiative, a process to streamline the curbside pickup experience and put food into customers’ hands faster. With an increase in customer demand for pickup, […]
GCP – A journey from App Engine to Cloud Run: Adopting containers and reducing infrastructure costs by 70 percent
Editor’s note: In today’s guest post we hear from SAP about their application modernization journey towards a serverless application architecture with Cloud Run. SAP developers partnered with Google Cloud Professional Services to migrate App Engine workloads to Cloud Run in just three weeks by focusing on small but efficient changes to the application, achieving remarkable […]
GCP – Canary deployments using Kubernetes Gateway API, Flagger and Google Cloud Deploy
Canary deployment is an advanced technique used to test changes in a production environment by gradually rolling out the changes to a small subset of users before fully deploying them to the entire user base. This allows for real-world testing of the changes, and the ability to quickly roll back the changes in the event […]
GCP – [Infographic] Navigating secure digital transformation in financial services
Adopting cloud computing technologies and services presents financial services institutions with opportunities to address many forms of security risks in new, innovative, and more effective ways. However, firms often lack the tools required to map out their digital transformation journey in the context of security and risk governance. That’s why it is important for Chief […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Active Directory authentication for SQL Server 2022
Customers with SQL Server 2022 can enable Azure Active Directory authentication, single sign-on, unify SQL Server authentication and leverage multi-factor authentication. Read More for the details.