Feed: What's New. Amazon DynamoDB is a fast and flexible NoSQL database service for all applications that need consistent, single-digit millisecond latency at any scale. Today, AWS announced the release of a DynamoDB service level agreement (SLA), which promises a stronger availability commitment with no scheduled downtime. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make DynamoDB available for each AWS Region, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”) and as described on Amazon DynamoDB Service Level Agreement. If all of your DynamoDB tables in the applicable AWS region are part of Global Tables, the availability promise ... Read More

Feed: What's New. This Quick Start deploys Jupiter—Cognizant’s continuous data testing accelerator and a component of Cognizant’s Adaptive Data Foundation offering—on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud in about one hour. You can automate and run quality-assurance tests on data stored in the AWS Cloud in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Apache Hive on Amazon EMR.   ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS Firewall Manager is a security management service that makes it easier to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules across your accounts and applications. As new applications are created, Firewall Manager also makes it easy to bring new applications and resources into compliance with a common set of security rules from day one. Now you have a single service to build firewall rules, create security policies, and enforce them in a consistent, hierarchical manner across your entire Application Load Balancers and Amazon CloudFront infrastructure. In addition to Europe (Ireland), AWS Firewall Manager is also available in ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Phone Number Validate also provides important metadata about end users' phone numbers. For example, it can determine if a phone number is associated with a mobile, landline, or VoIP account. Amazon Pinpoint customers can use this information to ensure that they use the right channel to deliver messages to their users. For example, if a number is associated with a mobile device, the customer can send information as an SMS text message, but if the number is associated with a VoIP or landline account, the customer can call the user and deliver the message by using text-to-speech ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Many Oracle Database workloads need high memory, storage, and I/O bandwidth, but are not CPU-bound, so you can reduce the number of vCPUs in your deployment without affecting performance. For example, the X1e.8xlarge instance type offers 32 vCPUs but you can choose to launch it with 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, or 32 vCPUs. While CPU-optimized instances have the same price per hour as full-sized instances, you'll pay lower vCPU-based license costs if you’re a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) database customer. Intel HT Technology is enabled by default on RDS Oracle instance types, but ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Inspector is an on-demand security assessment service that helps AWS customers improve the security of their Amazon EC2 environment and the applications deployed on them. Inspector gives customers the flexibility to check EC2 instances for vulnerabilities and evaluate their instance configurations against security benchmarks any time they need. Inspector offers rules packages that allow customers to choose the type of security assessment they wish to run and provides an evaluation of the findings along with recommendations to improve the security of their instances. Customers can start an assessment run with just a few clicks in the ... Read More

Feed: Blog. Author: Beth Chauvin; As of today, IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor (UCM) now supports monitoring for more Microsoft Azure services including Azure Virtual Machines, Azure MSSQL, Azure database for MySQL and Azure database for PostgreSQL. This is the first blog post in a series of 5 that will give you an overview of how to configure the UCM Azure monitoring, alerting and viewing of monitoring data.  Part 1 explains how to add Azure account(s) and setup alerts.  Stay tuned for Part 2: Details of All Azure Monitored Services of this series of blog posts coming very soon! Support for four Azure ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Integration Software | Matillion. Author: Dayna Shoemaker; We’re delighted to be a sponsor at the AWS Summit in New York! You’ll be able to find the Matillion team at our booth in the Expo Hall for live demos, best practice advice, awesome giveaways and lots more! AWS Summit New York The AWS Summit in New York is a free two-day event taking place at the Javits Center in New York on Monday 16th July and Tuesday 17th July. The AWS Summit series brings together professionals from across the cloud computing community, to inform and educate on the ... Read More

Feed: Cloud – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Cy Jervis. Self-service BI and exploratory analytics are some of the most common use cases we see our customers running on Cloudera’s analytic database solution. Over the past year, we made significant advancements to provide a simpler user experience for SQL developers and make them more productive for their everyday self-service BI tasks and workflows by leveraging Hue as the SQL development workbench. With the recent release of Cloudera 5.15, we continued to improve the query experience with Hue, focusing on easier discoverability of the data and parameterization of shared queries. In addition ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Shlomi Noach; GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all things non-git, and its availability is critical to GitHub’s operation. The site itself, GitHub’s API, authentication and more, all require database access. We run multiple MySQL clusters serving our different services and tasks. Our clusters use classic master-replicas setup, where a single node in a cluster (the master) is able to accept writes. The rest of the cluster nodes (the replicas) asynchronously replay changes from the master and serve our read traffic. The availability of master nodes is particularly critical. With no master, a cluster ... Read More