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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports DML query auditing with Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 adds a new policy condition key to require or restrict server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C)
The new Amazon S3 condition key enables you to write policies that help you control the use of server-side encryption with customer-provided keys (SSE-C). Using Amazon S3 condition keys, you can specify conditions when granting permissions in the optional ‘Condition’ element of a bucket or an IAM policy. One such condition is to require server-side […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches redesigned dashboard experience
Amazon QuickSight launched a new look and feel for the dashboard experience. The new interface enhances the reader experience by improving the discoverability, predictability, and the overall polish of the dashboards. The new dashboard experience includes: Simplified toolbar with updated icons for key actions for better visual clarity Discoverable visual menu visible on-hover to improve the […]
AWS – AWS IoT Greengrass v2 updates Stream Manager to report new telemetry metrics and more
AWS IoT Greengrass is an Internet of Things (IoT) edge runtime and cloud service that helps customers build, deploy, and manage device software. We are excited to announce our version 2.7 release with the following features: System Telemetry Enhancements – The Stream Manager agent component now has the ability (enabled by default) to send system […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6g, C6gd, and M6gd are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6g and C6gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Additionally, M6gd instances are now available in Europe (Stockholm) region. C6g and C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning […]
GCP – Accelerating migrations to Google Cloud with migVisor by EPAM
Application modernization is quickly becoming one of the pillars of successful digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives. Many organizations are becoming aware of the dramatic benefits that can be achieved by moving legacy, on-premises apps and databases into cloud native infrastructure and services, such as reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), elimination of expensive commercial […]
GCP – Filestore Enterprise for fully managed, fault tolerant persistent storage on GKE
Storing state with containers Kubernetes has become the preferred choice for running not only stateless workloads (e.g., web services) but also for stateful applications (e.g., e-commerce applications). According to the Data on Kubernetes report, over 70% of Kubernetes users run stateful applications in containers. Additionally, there is a rising trend of managed data services like […]
GCP – How NTUC FairPrice delivers a seamless shopping and payment experience through Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today we hear from NTUC Enterprise, which operates a sprawling retail ecosystem, including NTUC FairPrice, Singapore’s largest grocery chain, and a network of Unity pharmacies and Cheers convenience stores. As a social enterprise, NTUC Enterprise’s mission is to deliver affordable value in areas like daily essentials, healthcare, childcare, ready-to-eat meals, and financial services. […]
GCP – Introducing easier de-identification of Cloud Storage data
De-identification of Cloud Storage just got easier Many organizations require effective processes and techniques for removing or obfuscating certain sensitive information in the data they store. An important tool to achieve this goal is de-identification. Defined by NIST as a technique that “removes identifying information from a dataset so that individual data cannot be linked […]
GCP – Analyze Pacemaker events using open source Log Parser – Part 4
This blog is the fourth in a series and it follows the blog Analyze Pacemaker events in Cloud Logging, which describes how you can install and configure Google Cloud Ops Agent to stream Pacemaker logs of all your high availability clusters to Cloud Logging. You can analyze Pacemaker events happening to any of your clusters […]