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AWS – AWS Control Tower can now use customer provided core accounts
Today, we are announcing new functionality in AWS Control Tower that provides you the flexibility to use your existing security and logging accounts, or to have AWS Control Tower create new accounts on your behalf when setting up Control Tower or extending Control Tower governance to your existing AWS environment. The Security account is used […]

Azure – Public preview: Additional support for managed identity authentication in Azure Stream Analytics
Stream Analytics now supports authenticating to Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Service Bus using Managed Identities. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Glue now supports SASL authentication for Apache Kafka
AWS Glue can now connect to Apache Kafka using additional client authentication mechanisms. AWS Glue now supports SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) using either SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) or GSSAPI (Kerberos). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Distribution of Kubeflow supporting Kubeflow v1.4.1 is now generally available
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of AWS support for Kubeflow v1.4. Kubeflow on AWS streamlines data science tasks and helps build highly reliable, secure, portable, and scalable ML systems with reduced operational overheads through integrations with AWS managed services. You can use this Kubeflow distribution to build ML systems on top […]

Azure – Public preview: Azure DNS Private Resolver – Hybrid name resolution and conditional forwarding
Seamlessly perform conditional forwarding from on-prem to Azure Private DNS Zones and from Azure Virtual Networks to any target DNS server. Read More for the details.

GCP – Standardization, security, and governance across environments with Anthos Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes is being used for an ever growing percentage of production applications that power the world. Day 2 operations are now in focus as organizations scale from just a few clusters and applications to many clusters across multiple environments, in one cloud, multiple, and even on premise. How do you establish “sameness” across all of […]

GCP – Google Cloud at KubeCon EU: New projects, updated services, and how to connect
It’s that time of the year again, when we get excited about all things cloud-native and gear up to connect, share and learn from fellow developers and technologists at KubeCon EU 2022. Here is a quick round up of the latest news from the Google open source and Kubernetes teams, and how to connect with […]

GCP – Join us in evolving the usability of GitOps
Kubernetes configuration automation remains challenging Companies of all sizes are leveraging Kubernetes to modernize how they build, deploy, and operate applications on their infrastructure. As these companies expand the numbers of development and production clusters they use, creating and enforcing consistent configurations and security policies across a growing environment becomes difficult. To address this challenge, […]

GCP – Maintenance made flexible: Cloud SQL launches self-service maintenance
Routine maintenance is critical in the upkeep of any healthy database system. Maintenance involves updating your operating system and upgrading your database software so that you can rest assured that your system is secure, performant, and up-to-date. When you run your database on Cloud SQL, we schedule maintenance for you once every few months during […]
GCP – Alerting on error log messages in Cloud SQL for SQL Server
With Cloud SQL for SQL Server, you can bring your existing SQL Server on-premises workloads to Google Cloud. Cloud SQL takes care of infrastructure, maintenance, and patching so you can focus on your application and users. A great way to take better care of your application is by monitoring the SQL Server error log for […]