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GCP – 3 best practices to reduce application downtime with Google Cloud’s API monitoring tools
How many times have you closed an application when you encounter the “spinning wheel of death” (a melodramatic way of saying an application that is taking too long to load)? In today’s digital economy where many organizations rely on applications as a primary source of revenue, that spinning wheel of death (or poor application performance) […]
GCP – How Telus Insights is using BigQuery to deliver on the potential of real-world big data
Editor’s note: Today, we’re hearing from TELUS Insights about how Google BigQuery has helped them deliver on-demand, real-world insights to customers. Collecting reliable, de-identifiable data on population movement patterns and markets has never been easy, particularly for industries that operate in the physical world like transit and traffic management, finance , public health, and emergency […]
Azure – General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall
Increase your security posture and reduce false positives with Default Rule Set 2.1, now generally available on Azure’s global Web Application Firewall running on Azure Front Door. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Exporting ISE and Consumption Logic Apps to Standard SKU
Logic Apps Standard VS Code Extension now allows you to export groups of logic apps workflows deployed to Azure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Access modeled data from Looker Studio, now in public preview
In April, we announced the private preview of our integration between Looker and Looker Studio (previously known as Data Studio). At Next in October, to further unify our business intelligence under the Looker umbrella, we announced that Data Studio has been renamed Looker Studio. The products are now both part of the Looker family with […]
Azure – Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024
Deprecation notice: transition from Azure MFA Server to Azure MFA by 30 September 2024. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 enables you to opt out of directly shared Amazon Machine Images
Starting today, you can remove your AWS account from launch permissions for an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that was directly shared with your AWS account. You can leverage this capability, for example, to reduce the likelihood of launching an EC2 instance with an unused or deprecated AMI that was shared with you earlier. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose makes it easier to reliably load streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. You can use it to capture, transform, and deliver streaming data to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon OpenSearch, and third party providers like Splunk and Datadog, enabling near real-time analytics. Read More for the details.
AWS – RDS Custom for SQL Server Is Now Available in the Seoul, São Paulo and Canada (Central) Regions
Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server, a managed database service that allows access to the operating system and database environment, is now available in the AWS Regions of Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (São Paulo), and Canada (Central). Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server manages the operations and backups of databases in the cloud, while […]
AWS – EMR on EKS now supports job templates to store and share parameters across job runs
We are excited to announce the general availability of job templates in Amazon EMR on EKS. Job templates allow you to create and store templates to configure Spark applications parameters. This helps you ensure consistent settings across applications by reusing and enforcing configuration overrides in data pipelines. Read More for the details.