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AWS Identity and Access Management Gains Tags and Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently enabled tags for IAM users and roles to ease the management of IAM resources. Notably, this release also includes the ability to embrace attribute-based access control (ABAC) and match AWS resources with IAM principals dynamically to "simplify permissions management at scale".
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Google’s Cloud-Native NoSQL Database Cloud Firestore Is Now Generally Available
Google announced that their NoSQL database in the cloud Cloud Firestore is now generally available. With the release, Google is also introducing a few new features, such as a StackDriver integration, bringing the service to more regions, and offering a lower pricing tier.
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Microsoft Expands the Availability of Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Availability Zones support for Azure Service Bus Premium and Azure Event Hubs Standard. With the support, customers will have a high availability option for these services in availability zones supported regions.
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OpsRamp Announces Improved Service Centricity, AIOps and Cloud Monitoring
OpsRamp, a service-centric AIOps software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for the hybrid enterprise, has announced new topology maps, enhanced artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) features and new monitoring capabilities for cloud native workloads.
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Microsoft Azure Government Cloud: New Online Training Material Available
Microsoft recently expanded its Microsoft Learn platform with an introductory class on Azure Government. Azure Government is Microsoft’s solution for hosting United States government solutions on its cloud. In this article we will discuss what the Azure Government offers and how it pans against AWS GovCloud US offering.
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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.
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Amazon Offers Sustainability Datasets for Analysis
Amazon Web Services Open Data (AWSOD) and Amazon Sustainability (AS) are working together to make sustainability datasets available on the AWS Simple Storage Service (S3), and they are removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting by pre-processing the datasets for optimal retrieval. Sustainable datasets are commonly from satellites, geological studies, weather radars, agricultural studies, etc.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Data Box Disk
In a recent blog post, Microsoft has announced the general availability of Azure Data Box Disk, an SSD-based solution for offline data transfer to Azure. Furthermore, Microsoft also announced the public preview of Azure Data Box Blob Storage – a feature allowing customers to copy data to Blob Storage on a Data Box.
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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.
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Baidu Announces "OpenEdge", an Open-Source Edge Computing Platform
Recently Baidu Inc. announced China's first open-source edge computing platform called OpenEdge - allowing developers to build light, secure and scalable edge applications. The OpenEdge platform brings processing power to "edge devices" like smart home appliances and wearables.
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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.
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Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.6.0 Update Streamlines Development Experience
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced an update to their Azure Blockchain Workbench service which improves the development experience of building consortium-based blockchain applications. More specifically, this update includes new features such as application versioning, updated messaging capabilities and streamlined smart contract development.
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AWS Launches New Document-Oriented Database Compatible with MongoDB
AWS just released their 10th database service (15th, if you count each engine offered in the relational database services). This one, called Amazon DocumentDB, stores semi-structured data inside a scalable, highly-available managed service. While offering a MongoDB-compatible API, DocumentDB is not running MongoDB software, which caused hand-wringing among some tech watchers.
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Amazon Updates SQS to Support Amazon VPC Endpoints Using AWS PrivateLink
Amazon announced last month that its fully managed message queuing service Simple Queue Service (SQS) supports Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Endpoints using AWS PrivateLink. Now customers can have with this update private access to SQS and not have to use public IPs and traverse the public internet.
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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.