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GCP – How to migrate on-premises Active Directory users to Google Cloud Managed Microsoft AD
One benefit of cloud migration is having access to managed services, which can reduce operational overhead. For organizations operating in Microsoft-centered environments, Google Cloud offers a highly-available, hardened Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory running on Windows virtual machines. Managed Microsoft AD provides benefits such as automated AD server updates, maintenance, default security configurations, and […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere TKS updated; OS version 22.11 expected December 1
Participate in retail evaluation now to ensure compatibility. The Azure Sphere team has also updated the trusted keystore of Azure Sphere devices, resulting in an additional reboot for production devices. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) integration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports integration with Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). You can now transfer files between the RDS for Oracle DB instance and Amazon EFS file system. Amazon EFS is designed for 99.999999999% (11 9s) of durability and up to 99.99% (4 9s) of availability. You can scale […]
AWS – Concurrency scaling for write workloads is now generally available for Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is leveraged by thousands of customers to support virtually unlimited concurrent users and queries, and meet their SLAs for BI reports, dashboards and other analytics workloads. In addition to the read queries, Amazon Redshift concurrency scaling is now extended to support scaling of most common write operations performed as part of […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports profile search using multiple search terms through the API
Companies using the Amazon Connect Customer Profiles APIs for custom agent applications and automated interactions (e.g., IVR) can now search for profiles using multiple search terms, making it easier to find the right profile. Using the enhanced SearchProfiles API, customers can search for profiles using up to 5 terms to narrow down or expand search […]
AWS – Amazon HealthLake announces enhanced analytics feature
Amazon HealthLake announces new analytics capabilities, making it easier for customers to query, visualize, and build machine learning models on their HealthLake data. With this launch, HealthLake transforms customer data into an analytics-ready format in AWS Lake Formation in near real-time. This removes the need for customers to execute complex data exports and data transformations. […]
AWS – AWS re:Post is accessible to users in five additional languages – Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, French, Japanese, and Korean
AWS re:Post is a cloud knowledge service designed to help AWS customers remove technical roadblocks, accelerate innovation, and operate efficiently. re:Post has only supported English since the launch at re:Invent 2021. Today, re:Post has expanded the user experience to support five additional languages. Customers can now learn, design, build, and troubleshoot AWS technology by posting questions […]
AWS – AWS SAM CLI introduces Terraform support for AWS Lambda local testing and debugging
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the preview of AWS Lambda local testing and debugging on Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, and […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus supports 200M active metrics per workspace
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports 200M active metrics per workspace. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation open source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds support for high-fidelity color workloads
AWS Elemental MediaConnect now supports RGB 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 color spaces via AWS Cloud Digital Interface (AWS CDI) enabling workloads such as color grading, that require high-fidelity color at low latencies. The RGB 10- and 12-bit 4:4:4 color spaces are in addition to the currently supported option of YCbCr 10-bit 4:2:2. Read More for […]