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AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle is now available in Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo) AWS Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle, a managed database services for legacy, custom, and packaged applications that require access to the underlying operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Canada (Central) and South America (São Paulo). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS increases the number of provisioning tasks quota to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) has increased the “Tasks in PROVISIONING state per cluster“ service quota to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience. Customers who need to launch a large number of tasks (>300) in their Amazon ECS clusters will now see their cluster infrastructure scale faster. Read More for the details.
GCP – Building streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud
Many customers build streaming data pipelines to ingest, process and then store data for later analysis. We’ll focus on a common pipeline design shown below. It consists of three steps: Data sources send messages with data to a Pub/Sub topic. Pub/Sub buffers the messages and forwards them to a processing component. After processing, the processing […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 23.02
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Managed Lustre
Accelerate HPC and AI workloads with a managed parallel file system Read More for the details.
Azure – GA: Create disks from CMK-encrypted snapshots across subscriptions and in the same tenant
To ease manageability, we are making disks encrypted with customer-managed keys (CMK) more flexible by allowing creation of disks and snapshots from CMK-encrypted source across subscriptions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Smart Data Validation for Amazon Fraud Detector
Today, Amazon Fraud Detector (AFD) announced the launch of Smart Data Validation, a new feature which helps customers streamline their data preparation process for a successful batch import. Smart Data Validation helps customers save time and resources by validating data at the time of import. This new feature reduces the time to validate and fix […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9
Today, we are announcing an update for Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries to use the Synthetics NodeJS runtime version 3.9. This update updates dependency packages and addresses the planned deprecation of Synthetics NodeJS runtime versions 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. Read More for the details.
GCP – No cash to tip? No problem. How TackPay built its digital tipping platform on Google Cloud
Society is going cashless. While convenient for consumers, that’s caused a drastic decrease in income for tipped workers and this is the problem TackPay addresses. TackPay is a mobile platform that allows users to send, receive and manage tips in a completely digital way, providing tipped workers with a virtual tip jar that makes it […]
GCP – How Google Cloud Armor helps Broadcom block DDoS Attacks
Technology leader Broadcom is a worldwide provider of enterprise security solutions that leverages its expertise in hardware and software to offer a broad portfolio of embedded security solutions, including integrated Symantec cybersecurity software. In 2021, Broadcom received the Google Cloud DevOps Award. As Broadcom migrated its enterprise security solution infrastructure from Amazon Web Services to […]