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GCP – The definitive guide to databases on Google Cloud: Part 2 – Options at a glance
Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen farther than others it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.” He meant that in order to explain the Law of Gravity, he used the work of major thinkers who came before him in order to make intellectual progress (as-in giving credit). In the 1640’s […]
Azure – Generally available: Enhancements to Azure Web Application Firewall
Latest updates and new enhancements available for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Quicksight Line chart support for 10,000 data points
Amazon QuickSight now supports 10,000 data points for Line charts. With this update, line chart performance has been improved to support 10,000 data points from the earlier 2500 data point limit and introduces other minor bug fixes. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Event Grid enables user authorization to create partner topics
Gain a greater security stance by explicitly authorizing a partner to create partner topics or partner destinations in your Azure subscription. Read More for the details.
GCP – Getting started with OpenSSH on Windows Compute Engine instances
One of the best practices for managing your virtual machines in the cloud is to rely on smart automation for certain tasks. When done this way you can save cloud and IT teams a tremendous amount of time and toil, especially for tasks like VM state validation which we’ll talk about in this blog. Let’s […]
GCP – Implementing HKMA’s Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) on Google Cloud
In this post, we will discuss how Google Cloud can be used as a backup storage solution to support the objectives of the Secure Tertiary Data Backup (STDB) guideline developed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and Hong Kong Association of Banks. We will focus on the storage location and its surrounding security controls. […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer now supports suppression of files and folders in code reviews
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential code defects that are difficult to find and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we’re announcing the support of file/folder suppression for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer, a new feature that allows customer to prevent CodeGuru Reviewer from surfacing findings on […]
Azure – Public preview: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps
You can now deploy Static Web Apps to staging environments using Azure DevOps. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches an API to programmatically stop queued callbacks
Amazon Connect now allows you to programmatically stop queued callbacks using the StopContact API. Queued callbacks reduce the time callers have to wait by enabling them to provide a phone number to be called back when an agent becomes available. In some situations, customers can end up calling repeatedly and registering for multiple callbacks. You […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) on new and existing RDS instances. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their databases on a network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6. Read More […]