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AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 now supports AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, now supports AWS CloudFormation. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and modify Aurora Serverless v2 along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure in a secure, efficient, and repeatable manner. To learn more, read the AWS CloudFormation user guide. Read More for the […]
GCP – Secure streaming data with Private Service Connect for Confluent Cloud
Data speed and security should not be mutually exclusive, which is why Confluent Cloud, a cloud-first data streaming platform built by the founders of Apache Kafka, secures your data through encryption at rest and enables secure data in motion. However, for the most sensitive data — particularly data generated by organizations in highly regulated industries […]
AWS – AWS Budgets now supports filtering by Invoicing Entity and Legal Entity
Starting today, you can now budget by two new dimensions, invoicing entity and legal entity, in AWS Budgets. This additional granularity allows you to setup specific budget thresholds according to your invoice issuer using invoicing entity or AWS Marketplace seller using legal entity. Once you’ve saved your budget, you can then receive alerts when your […]
AWS – Amazon WorkMail now supports Impersonation Roles
Amazon WorkMail now offers Impersonation Roles, a secure way to more easily grant programmatic access to mailboxes. Customers can use Impersonation Roles with Exchange Web Services (EWS) to perform impersonated actions in other users’ mailboxes. Administrators have the ability to limit the scope of Impersonation Roles to specific users, including choosing whether actions have full […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports resource tagging
Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports tagging of resources such as namespace and workgroup. Tagging allows you to assign a key-value pair to your resources and organize them by business departments, billing groups, and production environments. Read More for the details.
GCP – New Google Cloud Spot VM price reductions: Up to 11% off already discounted
Spot VMs, previously known as preemptible VMs, are spare compute capacity offered at a significant discount. When we launched Spot VMs last year, we removed the 24 hour limitation so Spot VMs can now run indefinitely. We continue to offer the industry’s most predictable, simple, and competitive Spot pricing – with pricing updates implemented up […]
GCP – From open source to managed services: Maisons du Monde’s service mesh journey
Maisons du Monde is a furniture and home decor company founded in France over 25 years ago. With 360 stores across France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, and Portugal our systems and website caters to traffic from across Europe. Our team of Operations Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) manage the MDM website and […]
GCP – How Chrome supports today’s workforce with secure enterprise browsing
When I first started at Google 15 years ago, I was brought on as a “hired hacker” on Google’s security team. I hunted for software vulnerabilities and helped product teams fix and mitigate them. Over the years, I’ve worked on initiatives to ensure security is built-in by default and user-friendly, to detect and mitigate exploits, […]
GCP – 6 Building blocks for cloud networking – Networking Architecture
Cloud offers opportunities to businesses to help them achieve their strategic objectives. One of the foundational components of the cloud is networking. This article explores the building blocks of networking on Google Cloud. The purpose of architecture Moving to the cloud can be a complex endeavor and onboarding and designing your architecture is an important […]
AWS – AWS Cloud WAN is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Read More for the details.