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AWS – AWS Config rules now support proactive compliance
AWS Config announces the ability to proactively check for compliance with AWS Config rules prior to resource provisioning. Customers use AWS Config to track the configuration changes made to their cloud resources and check if those resources match their desired configurations through a feature known as AWS Config rules. Proactive compliance allows customers to evaluate […]
AWS – AWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network
Using AWS Network Manager, you can now monitor the real-time and historical performance of the AWS Global Network for operational and planning purposes. AWS Network Manager provides aggregate network latency between AWS Regions, Availability Zones and within each Availability Zone, allowing you to better understand how your application performance relates to the performance of the […]
AWS – AWS Glue for Apache Spark Native support for Data Lake Frameworks (Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports three open source data lake storage frameworks: Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. These frameworks allow you to read and write data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a transactionally consistent manner. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes […]
GCP – Archive Data: Old or historic?
To be “historic,” an event or place must be associated with a degree of importance that makes it worthy of notice, study, or preservation. To be “old” merely means something has been around a long time or occurred long ago. Regulations and compliance enforce companies notably Insurance, finance, healthcare to preserve their customer, applications and transaction […]
GCP – Workflows patterns and best practices – Part 2
This is part 2 of a three-part series of posts, in which we summarize Workflows and service orchestration patterns. You can apply these patterns to better take advantage of Workflows and service orchestration on Google Cloud. In the first post, we introduced some general tips and tricks, as well as patterns for event-driven orchestrations, parallel […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Optimized Reads is now available for up to 50% faster queries on Amazon RDS for MySQL
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL nowsupports Amazon RDS Optimized Reads for up to 50% faster query processing compared to previous generation instances. Optimized Read-enabled instances achieve faster query processing by placing temporary tables generated by MySQL on the local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage that’s physically connected to the host server. Complex queries […]
AWS – AWS Backup launches delegation of organization-wide backup administration
AWS Backup now supports organization-wide delegation of backup administration to member accounts within AWS Organizations. This enables delegated backup administrators to create and manage backup policies and monitor backup activity across accounts within the organization. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments for safer, simpler, and faster updates
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports Amazon RDS Blue/Green Deployments to help you with safer, simpler, and faster updates to your Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS databases. Blue/Green Deployments create a fully managed staging environment that allows you to deploy and test production changes, keeping your current production database safe. With a single click, […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System introduces 1-Day Lifecycle Management Policy to help customers reduce costs for cold data sets
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports a 1-day Lifecycle Management Policy that allows you to automatically move files that haven’t been accessed in 1 day to the Amazon EFS Infrequent Access (EFS IA) storage class. You can configure this new policy option for your file system, or you can use one of the […]
AWS – AWS Backup launches application-aware data protection for applications defined using AWS CloudFormation
Today, AWS Backup is announcing application-aware data protection that enables you to add AWS CloudFormation stacks to backup policies, making it easier for you to back up and restore your entire applications. AWS Backup automates the data protection of applications that are defined using AWS CloudFormation stacks to create immutable application-level backups using AWS Backup […]