Eldert Grootenboer
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Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Quantum Ledger Database
On September 10th, Amazon announced the general availability of Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB), a ledger database based on blockchain technology. As such, QLDB provides a fully managed ledger which can contain multiple tables, implementing an immutable transaction journal, which is cryptographically verifiable, and owned by a centralized trusted authority. → Read More
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Active Directory Based Access Control for Service
In a recent statement, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Active Directory (AD) based access control for Service Bus, enabling the option to use identities in combination with Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to authenticate against the service’s data endpoints. Moreover, they have also introduced accompanying RBAC roles, providing granular control over granted permissions. → Read More
Amazon Announces Generally Availability of Aurora Multi-Master
In a recent announcement, Amazon has publicized the general availability of Aurora Multi-Master, which allows for reading and writing on multiple database instances across several Availability Zones. Consequently, this brings high availability capabilities, as the platform no longer needs to trigger a fail-over upon failure of database instances. → Read More
Google Announces General Availability of Cloud Security Scanner for GKE and Compute Engine
Recently, Google announced the general availability of Cloud Security Scanner for Google Kubernetes Engine and Compute Engine. This service allows scanning for vulnerabilities and threats of web apps, as possibly introduced during development, and act before anyone can abuse them. → Read More
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Azure Security Center for IoT
Initially introduced in March 2019, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT, which enables end-to-end threat protection and security management of IoT environments. The solution helps in identifying threats, insecure settings, and misconfigurations, allowing to mitigate before attackers can take advantage of them. → Read More
Cloud Memorystore Adds Import-Export and Redis 4.0
In a recent announcement, Google has unveiled two new features for Cloud Memorystore, their fully managed Redis service. These features consist of the beta of import-export, allowing to import and export data from and to other Redis instances, as well as the general availability of Redis 4.0 support. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Public Preview of Azure Data Share
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Data Share, which provides capabilities to share data with users in the own organization, as well as with other organizations. Essentially, Microsoft positions the recently announced service as a big data tool, though it’s also possible to share individual files. → Read More
Google Announces Several Updates to Database Services
Google has announced several new products and features for the database services on Google Cloud Platform. These announcements include Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server, version 11 support for Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and multi-region replication for Cloud Bigtable. → Read More
Microsoft Announces General Availability of SignalR Service Bindings in Azure Functions
Microsoft has announced the general availability of SignalR Service bindings in Azure Functions, which provides the ability to push messages and content updates in real-time to connected clients. Moreover, this would start through the various triggers of Azure Functions, including services such as Cosmos DB and Service Bus. → Read More
DigitalOcean Announces Partner App Marketplace
DigitalOcean has announced Marketplace, a platform where third-party providers can deliver their software stacks as One-Click Apps. Initially, Marketplace offers a variety of partner offerings, including databases, visualization, and monitoring tools and developer frameworks. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Several Updates to Azure Event Grid
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Event Grid, which allows for creating event-driven application architectures. The announcement includes features around retry policies, dead lettering capabilities, Azure Storage Queues and Hybrid Connections as a destination for events, and a manual validation handshake. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Preview of OpenAPI Specification V3 in Azure API Management
Recently Microsoft has announced support for OpenAPI specification v3 in Azure API Management, their service allowing to set up, publish, monitor and maintain APIs. Employment of the OpenAPI specification is done through the OpenAPI.NET SDK and supports in abstracting the definition of APIs from their implementation. → Read More
Google Announces Support for Go Language on Cloud Functions
In a recent post, Google has announced support for Go 1.11 on Cloud Functions, which is their Function as a Service offering. With this announcement, Go joins the line as a supported programming language for Cloud Functions besides the previously available Node.js and Python. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery Enhancements
Last week, Microsoft announced several enhancements to their Azure Migrate and Azure Site Recovery services. The changes in the announcement include additional geographies for storing discovery and assessment metadata, along with additional supported options for migrations. → Read More
Google Announces Cloud DNS Forwarding
In a recent blog post, Google has announced Cloud DNS forwarding, allowing resources, both in the cloud and on-premises, to find each other through DNS. These capabilities deliver the option to either implement Google DNS or one’s private authoritative server as a DNS provider. → Read More
License Changes for Confluent Platform Restricting Cloud Vendor Usage
Confluent has announced changes to the license for some components of their Confluent Platform, a streaming platform which provides capabilities to transport data, and tools to connect systems and data sources. The license changes specifically focus on restricting the usage of these components by SaaS providers. → Read More
Microsoft Announces General Availability of Static Websites on Azure Storage
Microsoft has announced the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which provides the ability to serve content from HTML, CSS and JavaScript files hosted on Azure Storage. Static websites contain web pages with fixed content, while still allowing to leverage client-side code like JavaScript to create a rich user experience. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Azure Kubernetes Service Updates
Microsoft has announced multiple updates to Azure Kubernetes Service, their managed Kubernetes offering. The announcements include features around AKS virtual nodes, GPU support for Azure Container Instances, and the donation of the Virtual Kubelet project to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation. → Read More
Amazon Announces New Integrations for AWS Step Functions
Amazon has announced new integrations with their compute, database, messaging, analytics, and machine learning services for AWS Step Functions, allowing to leverage these as steps in the state machine workflows. With AWS Step Functions, an abstracted way is provided to connect and coordinate activities, taking advantage of a highly scalable runtime. → Read More
Microsoft Announces Container Support for Azure Cognitive Services
Microsoft has announced container support for Cognitive Services, which allows taking advantage of machine learning capabilities anywhere, whether it is in the cloud, on the edge or on-premises. With Azure Cognitive Services, organizations can start using various cognitive features, like vision, speech and text processing, without the need for a dedicated data scientist. → Read More