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AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Database Decoupling in an Elastic Beanstalk Environment
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports decoupling a database running in an Elastic Beanstalk environment. Previously, a database instance created by Elastic Beanstalk was tied to the lifecycle of the environment. With this launch, the lifecycle of your database instance will not be tied to your application’s environment lifecycle, and you can decouple a database managed […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall Adds New Configuration Options for Rule Ordering and Default Drop
AWS Network Firewall now offers new configuration options for rule ordering and default drop, making it easier to write and process rules to monitor your virtual private cloud (VPC) traffic. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Spanner Provider for Entity Framework Core
We’re very excited to announce the general availability of the Google Cloud Spanner provider for Entity Framework Core, which allows your Entity Framework Core applications to take advantage of Cloud Spanner‘s scale, strong consistency, and up to 99.999% availability. In this post, we’ll cover how to get started with the provider and highlight the supported […]
Azure – Azure Functions Python 3.9 support is now generally available
Python developers can now take advantage of the version enhancements in Python 3.9 using Azure Functions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Partner return on Investment jumps to 86%, according to Forrester Total Economic Impact Study
Over the past year we’ve seen incredible changes in how people worked, but also how software developers and IT practitioners innovated. Customers are moving their businesses well beyond infrastructure and migrating, in fast forward, toward the next era of their cloud evolution. Forrester predicts cloud spending to grow at 38% CAGR through 2022, which is […]
GCP – Deploy Anthos on GKE with Terraform Part 3: Enabling Cloud Resources Provisioning
In the previous two parts of the series (1, 2) we discussed how new features in Terraform Provider for GCP make it easier for platform administrators to extend their Terraform automation to add Anthos Config Management (ACM) features to their GKE clusters. Using familiar Terraform resource syntax, you can add google_gke_hub_feature and google_gke_hub_feature_membership resource with configmanagement […]
GCP – Building the data analyst driven organization from the first principles
In this blog series, a companion to our white paper, we’re exploring different types of data-driven organizations. In our previous blogs of this series, a data scientist driven organization seeks to maximize value derived from data by making it highly accessible and discoverable, while also applying robust governance and operational rigor to rapidly deploy ML […]
GCP – New data sovereignty controls for EU customers
European organizations—in both the public and private sectors—want a cloud provider that can meet their requirements for security, privacy, and digital sovereignty, without compromising on functionality or innovation. As part of our ‘Cloud. On Europe’s Terms.’ initiative, we’ve been working diligently to provide solutions to meet customers’ needs in this area, with capabilities built into […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Apache Spark SQL to insert data into and update Apache Hive metadata tables when Apache Ranger integration is enabled
We are announcing the support of using Apache Spark SQL to update Apache Hive metadata tables when using Amazon EMR integration with Apache Ranger. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (London) Regions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in four additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Europe (London). Read More for the details.