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AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for role-based access control (RBAC)
Amazon Redshift now supports role-based access control (RBAC), a new enhancement that helps you simplify the management of security privileges in Amazon Redshift. You can use the RBAC feature to control end user access to data at a broad or granular level based on their job role/permission rights and level of data sensitivity. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Power BI
Amazon Redshift now provides native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), which customers can use for authentication and authorization with tools like Microsoft Power BI. You can now use Azure AD to authenticate access to Amazon Redshift and the end users get their permissions based on their group membership defined in Azure AD. Read […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints
Enhance your security posture by leveraging Azure private endpoints to connect to your Azure Data Explorer cluster privately Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs
Azure Backup now provides the capability to move long term retention (LTR) recovery points to low-cost archive tier for Azure Virtual Machines. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Diagnostic audit logs for Automation accounts
Forward Azure Automation diagnostic audit logs to Log analytics workspace to keep track of changes at the automation account level. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud’s key investment areas to accelerate your database transformation
The sky’s the limit when it comes to reimagining digital experiences. At least, that’s how consumers view it. Applications are about more than delivering a service. Today’s customers also expect them to be lightning fast, personalized, and easy to use. Operational databases power your most important applications and, therefore, your business. But, choosing an operational […]
GCP – Database observability for developers: announcing Cloud SQL Insights for MySQL (in preview)
In 2021, we announced Cloud SQL Insights, an easy to use tool that helps developers quickly understand and resolve database performance issues in Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. We designed Insights using open standards, with intuitive visualizations and modern architectures, such as microservices, in mind. Insights became one of the fastest adopted new capabilities in Cloud […]
GCP – Now in preview, BigQuery search features provide a simple way to pinpoint unique elements in data of any size
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of search indexes and related SQL SEARCH functions in BigQuery. This is a new capability in BigQuery that allows you to use standard BigQuery SQL to easily find unique data elements buried in unstructured text and semi-structured JSON, without having to know the table schemas in […]
GCP – Introducing Serverless Spark for interactive development
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to helping you build an open and integrated data platform that meets your specific business needs. We believe in order to build the world you want, you need to be able to use the tools you want, on a powerful and unified platform. To that end, we’re making Apache Spark […]
GCP – How to migrate from Apache HBase to Cloud Bigtable with Live Migrations
Cloud Bigtable is a natural destination for Apache HBase workloads, as it is a fully managed service that is compatible with the HBase API. As a result, many customers running business-critical applications with large-scale data and low-latency needs consider migrating to Bigtable. However, migrating from HBase to Bigtable can still be challenging since you typically […]