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Azure – Public preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra enhancements
Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra now includes support for deploying Cassandra 4.0 clusters and running nodetool commands using Azure CLI. Read More for the details.

Azure – Generally available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus) now includes PgBouncer 1.17
Create a Hyperscale Citus) server group using the latest 1.7 version of PgBouncer, a popular connection pooler for Postgres used with Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Hyperscale (Citus). Read More for the details.

GCP – New research shows consumers more interested in brands’ values than ever
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in Consumer Goods Technology Magazine Shifting work habits, more online shopping options, rising inflation, and stretched supply chains are just a few factors making it harder to discern what’s top-of-mind for shoppers today. But we’re starting to get a clearer picture of what consumers say they value most right […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports M6i and R6i instances with new instance sizes up to 128 vCPUs and 1,024 GiB RAM.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MariaDB, version 10.4 and higher, now supports M6i and R6i instances. M6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 x86-based General Purpose compute instances, designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized […]

AWS – Amazon Lightsail load balancers now support automatic HTTPS redirects and configurable TLS security policy
Amazon Lightsail has added two new security features for the Lightsail load balancer: the ability to automatically redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS and the ability to configure the security policy used for TLS termination of the HTTPS requests. With these features, you can easily make your websites more secure, meet compliance goals, achieve better search […]

AWS – AWS Backup for Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Backup’s policy-based data protection capabilities are now available for Amazon FSx in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now use AWS Backup to centrally automate backup and restore of your application data stored in Amazon FSx along with other AWS services for compute, storage, and database in the Osaka Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in South America (São Paulo)
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are available in South America (São Paulo). R6gd instances provide up to 40 percent better price-performance and up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based instances for memory-intensive workloads such as open-source databases, in-memory caches, and real time big data analytics. […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i Instances available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EC2 C6i, M6i and R6i instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These instances are powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offering up to 15% better compute price performance over comparable Gen5 instances for a wide variety of […]

GCP – Monitor & analyze BigQuery performance using Information Schema
In the exponentially growing data warehousing space, it is very important to capture, process and analyze the metadata and metrics of the jobs/queries for the purposes of auditing, tracking, performance tuning, capacity planning, etc. Historically, on-premise (on-prem) legacy data warehouse solutions have mature methods of collecting and reporting performance insights via query log reports, workload […]
AWS – Use IAM to control access to a resource based on the account, OU or organization that contains the resource
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced a new way that you can control access to your resources based on the account, Organizational Unit (OU) or organization in AWS Organizations that contains your resources. AWS recommends that you set up multiple accounts as your workloads grow. Using a multi-account environment has several benefits including […]