Tag: Availability

Feed: What's New. Performance Insights allows non-experts to detect performance problems with an easy-to-understand dashboard that visualizes database load. It supports Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility, Amazon Aurora with MySQL 5.6 compatibility, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 10, and Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7. Additional database engines are available in preview. You can get started by logging into the Amazon RDS Management Console, enabling Performance Insights for a new or existing database instance, and viewing the Performance Insights dashboard. The Amazon Web Services API and SDK make it easy to integrate Performance Insights data into on-premises and third-party monitoring ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . If you choose not to do the quick install and chose to customize the various options of installations using a wizard, you may use MariaDB ColumnStore postConfigure script. Custom Install Wizard: postConfigure The postConfigure script is a customer wizard to do the system(server and storage) configuration and setup. Before running the postConfigure script, you must have done Preparing for ColumnStore Installation 1.2.x steps and the pre-requisite validation using ColumnStore Cluster Tester Tool. Once you have done these steps, then run the postConfigure script from the node designated as PM1. The script can ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Starting today, Amazon EC2 R5 instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Europe (Paris) AWS regions. R5 global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Paris), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon), Canada (Central), and GovCloud (US-West) AWS regions. In addition, Amazon EC2 R5d instances are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo) AWS regions. R5d global availability now includes the Asia Pacific (Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (N. California, Oregon) and Canada ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . Preparing to Install Review the Preparing for Installations Document and ensure that any necessary pre-requisites have been completed on the target servers including installing the ColumnStore software packages. If installing a single combined functionality server with no plans to add additional servers, Single Node should be chosen. Going from single server to multi-server configuration to another will require a re-installation of the MariaDB ColumnStore software. MariaDB ColumnStore Quick Installer for a single server system The script quick_installer_single_server.sh provides a simple 1 step install of MariaDB ColumnStore bypassing the interactive wizard style interface ... Read More

Feed: What's New. When you enable KMS encryption, Amazon Redshift automatically migrates your data to a new, encrypted cluster. The data blocks and system metadata are encrypted on the new cluster, as well as on subsequent snapshots. With encryption, you can protect your sensitive data at rest and be GDPR ready. You can use one-click encryption only when migrating to a KMS-encrypted cluster. To convert to a cluster using a hardware security module (HSM), you can create a new encrypted cluster and move your data to it. You can modify your cluster's encryption using the AWS management console or the ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sean Lopp. We’re excited to announce the general availability of our newest RStudio professional product, RStudio Package Manager. RStudio Package Manager helps your team, department, or entire organization centralize and organize R packages. Get started with the 45 day evaluation today! With more than 13,000 packages in the R ecosystem, managing the packages you and your teams need can be challenging. R users naturally want the latest, but everyone benefits from reproducibility, stability, and security in production code. RStudio Package Manager is an on-premises server product that allows R users and IT to work together to create ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: John Scott; Given an environment where a high volume web application is prone to opening many connections to backend resources, using a utility like pt-stalk is important.  When performance or availability affecting events like innodb lock waits or connection saturation occur, pt-stalk helps give you information you may need in troubleshooting what was happening. The tendency may be to create multiple pt-stalks for various conditions.  This can be a poor decision when your server is dealing with both lock contention and high connections. When pt-stalk triggers, it triggers multiple simultaneous connections to MySQL to get the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight recently launched table calculations, which enable you to perform complex calculations on your data to derive meaningful insights. In this blog post, we go through examples of applying these calculations to a sample sales data set so that you can start using these for your own needs.You can find the sample data set used here. What are table calculations? By using a table calculation in Amazon QuickSight, you can derive metrics such as period-over-period trends. You can also create calculations within a specified window to compute metrics within that window, or benchmark against ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Deutscher. Developers and media companies trust and rely on Azure Media Services for the ability to encode, protect, index, and deliver videos at scale. This week we are proud to announce several enhancements to Media Services including the general availability of the new Azure Media Services v3 API, as well as updates to Azure Media Player. Low-latency live streaming, 24-hour transcoding, CMAF, and a shiny new API (v3) ready for production The Azure Media Services v3 API was announced at the Build conference in May 2018, which provided a simplified development model, enabled a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A guest post by Tim Rains, EMEA Regional Leader Security & Compliance, Amazon Web ServicesOver the years, many organizations’ on-premises IT infrastructure have been compromised. Often times, organizations are left defending infrastructure, data, and people without understanding who is attacking them and why. But the silver lining is that attackers often use the same tactics to try to initially compromise their targets. Knowing the ways that attackers try to get a foothold in your environment can help you defend it better. The five ways organizations initially get compromised are: Unpatched vulnerabilities ... Read More