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GCP – Evolving our data processing commitments for Google Cloud and Workspace
At Google, we are constantly looking to improve our products, services, and contracts so that we can better serve our customers. To this end, we are pleased to announce that we have updated and merged our data processing terms for Google Cloud, Google Workspace (including Workspace for Education), and Cloud Identity (when purchased separately) into […]
GCP – Multi-environment service orchestrations
In a previous post, I showed how to use a GitOps approach to manage the deployment lifecycle of a service orchestration. This approach makes it easy to deploy changes to a workflow in a staging environment, run tests against it, and gradually roll out these changes to the production environment. While GitOps helps to manage […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces enhanced system logs with consistent durability
Amazon Redshift customers use the system table/views (STL/SVL) to get insight into query executions for their performance and auditing needs. These system table/views are powered by system logs and generated by Amazon Redshift cluster. Amazon Redshift enhances the system log durability and now allows the users to fetch up to seven days of system log […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports import of CloudTrail Logs from Amazon S3
Today, AWS CloudTrail Lake announces the ability to import CloudTrail event logs from an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket to CloudTrail Lake. You can bring your existing CloudTrail logs into an existing or new CloudTrail Lake event data store. This lets you consolidate historical CloudTrail event logs with new CloudTrail events collected in CloudTrail Lake […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive adds encoding for Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision
If you deliver experiences with immersive audio and high dynamic range (HDR) video, you can now use AWS Elemental MediaLive to encode Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in your channel. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports message signatures based on SHA256 hashing
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now supports message signature based on SHA256 hashing, which provides security improvements over SHA1. To choose the hashing algorithm, either SHA256 or SHA1, you can use the SetTopicAttributes API action. Amazon SNS signs the messages delivered from your topic, so that the subscribed HTTP endpoints can verify the authenticity […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for SQL Server
Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now supports Amazon RDS for SQLServer running on major versions 2014 and later. Using Amazon RDS Proxy, customers can make applications more scalable, more resilient to database failures, and more secure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Spark SQL through the StartJobRun API
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS release 6.7.0 and onwards includes the ability to run Apache Spark SQL scripts through the StartJobRun API. Spark SQL is a Spark module for structured data processing. Unlike the Spark DataFrame API, Spark SQL interfaces provide Spark with more information about the structure of both the […]
AWS – Easily install and update the CloudWatch Agent with Quick Setup
Today, AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup announces support for installing and periodically updating the CloudWatch Agent. With this new launch, you can now easily deploy and keep up to date the CloudWatch Agent in instances across accounts and Regions at scale with a few clicks. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure Ultra Disk Storage in Qatar Central
Azure Ultra Disk Storage provides high-performance along with sub-millisecond latency for your most demanding workloads, now available in Qatar Central Azure. Read More for the details.