Here's a cloud round up of all things GCP, Azure and AWS for the week ending Friday 28th January 2022
Here are Hava we released a stack of new features including several improvements to the AWS security group view, launched the much anticipated Azure security view, made a change to how connections are displayed on infrastructure diagrams and released SSO for business accounts. You can read all about the January releases here:
https://www.hava.io/blog/hava-updates-january-2022
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AWS customers in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region can now use Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).
Amazon EFS is a simple, serverless, set-and-forget, elastic file system that makes it easy to set up, scale, and cost-optimize file storage in the AWS Cloud. It is built to scale on demand to store petabytes of data without disrupting applications, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, eliminating the need to provision and manage capacity to accommodate growth.
Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports collection and tracking of query execution plans for Amazon RDS for Oracle, so you can more easily identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of a worse performing or a stuck query.
A query execution plan is a sequence of steps used to access data in a relational database management system (RDBMS). The RDBMS query optimizer chooses the optimal execution plan from many alternative ways to execute a given query, with widely varying performance. Because query optimizers do not always make the most optimal choice, database users and administrators sometimes need to manually examine and tune the plans to improve performance. Correlating this performance data can take hours without specialized expertise.
You can now access 5 new metrics for PrivateLink-based VPC Endpoints and Endpoint Services. AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in a secure and scalable manner while keeping network traffic private.
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now includes a new custom vocabulary capability that helps businesses improve the accuracy of speech recognition for product names, brand names, and domain-specific terminology by expanding the vocabulary of Contact Lens’ speech-to-text engine.
Businesses can provide a list consisting of domain-specific words and phrases, words that aren’t being recognized correctly, and proper nouns. They can also add custom pronunciations using International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) characters for each out-of-lexicon term. Alternatively, businesses can use the standard orthography of a language to mimic the way that a word or phrase sounds. They can also designate exactly how a terminology should be displayed when it is transcribed (e.g. “Street” as “St.” versus “ST”).
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) AWS Region.
Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch.
Customers can now purchase the AWS Panorama Appliance from Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, Amazon.it, and Amazon.es.
AWS Panorama is a machine learning (ML) appliance and software development kit (SDK) that brings computer vision (CV) to on-premises internet protocol (IP) cameras. With AWS Panorama, companies can use compute power at the edge (without streaming video to the cloud) to improve their operations, by automating visual inspection tasks like evaluating manufacturing quality, finding bottlenecks in industrial processes, and assessing worker safety within their facilities.
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP now enables you to increase your SSD storage capacity with the click of a button, making it even quicker and easier to meet your evolving storage needs over time.
FSx for ONTAP file systems have two storage tiers: primary storage and capacity pool storage. Primary storage is provisioned, high-performance SSD storage for the active or latency-sensitive portion of your data set. Capacity pool storage is a fully elastic storage tier that can scale to petabytes in size and is cost-optimized for the infrequently-accessed portion of your data. Starting today, you can grow your SSD storage capacity for the active portion of your data.
You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK in the Africa (Cape Town) AWS Region.
Amazon MSK is a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect that makes it easy for you to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka as a data store. Amazon MSK is fully compatible with Apache Kafka, which enables you to quickly migrate your existing Apache Kafka workloads to Amazon MSK with confidence or build new ones from scratch.
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads.
You can now try Amazon DocumentDB for free with a 1-month free trial. New customers are eligible for 750 hours of a t3.medium instance, 30M IOs, 5GB of storage, and 5GB of backup storage for 30 days. You can also build clusters with multiple t3.medium instances. Please see the Amazon DocumentDB Free Trial Page for more details.
Amazon DocumentDB is a scalable, highly durable, and fully managed database service for operating mission-critical MongoDB workloads.
Amazon DocumentDB continues to increase compatibility with MongoDB and today added support for the following MongoDB APIs and indexing improvements in DocumentDB 3.6 and 4.0:
Anthos Clusters on VMware
Anthos clusters on VMware 1.9.3-gke.4 is now available. To upgrade, see Upgrading Anthos clusters on VMware. Anthos clusters on VMware 1.9.3-gke.4 runs on Kubernetes v1.21.5-gke.1200.
The supported versions offering the latest patches and updates for security vulnerabilities, exposures, and issues impacting Anthos clusters on VMware are 1.10, 1.9, and 1.8.
Dialogflow
Dialogflow CX has a new agent design best practices guide.
Memorystore for Redis
Released the RDB Snapshots (Preview) feature for Memorystore for Redis. For more details, see RDB Snapshots.
VPC
Accessing supported regional service endpoints using Private Service Connect with consumer HTTP(S) controls is available in General Availability.
Accessing managed services using Private Service Connect with consumer HTTP(S) controls is available in Preview.
Microsoft Azure Releases And Updates
Source: azure.microsoft.com
Develop weather and climatology enabled solutions using the historical weather, air quality and tropical storms features from Azure Maps Weather Services.
Azure Key Vault service throughput limits have been increased for each vault, driving higher performance for your applications.
The Azure Percept January update includes fixes related to security.
Azure Cost Management has a new tabbed experience to streamline analysis as you drill into costs.
Azure NetApp Files new features recently added in public preview. The new capabilities enhance your experience in using NetApp Files.
Provision your Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server today in the China East 2 and China North 2 regions.
Azure NetApp Files features - dual protocol, ADDS LDAP over TLS and SMB3 protocol encryption have reached general availability.
Start using the new agent and data collection rules in environments with special network requirements and maintain network isolation by leveraging private links.
The new enhancements released for the security of hybrid backups enable you to integrate with MUA, protect against accidental deletion and avoid data loss in soft delete state.
Elasticsearch and Kibana users can now easily migrate to Azure Data Explorer (ADX) while keeping Kibana as their visualization tool, alongside the other Azure Data Explorer experiences.A new version…
With ASR, you can protect your VMs that uses ZRS managed disks by replicating them to a secondary region of your choice.
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