Weekly Cloud Provider News – Amazon RDS Service Delivery, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Google Cloud Traffic Director and More
Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news from the industry’s top providers. This week, Amazon unveils RDS Service Delivery Partners, Amazon Elastic Block Store unveils next-generation SSD volumes, Amazon EBS supports SAP workloads, Google Cloud Traffic Director expands its capabilities, and Google secures containerized workloads with threat detection.
- Amazon announced the relaunch of the Amazon RDS Service Delivery Program to help customers find AWS partners with deep RDS knowledge and migration expertise. These experts can set up, operate and scale relational databases in the cloud. Navisite was recently awarded the Amazon RDS Service Delivery designation, which differentiates the company as an AWS partner with specialized technical skills and proven customer success. Learn more here.
- AWS announced the availability of gp3, the next-generation SSD volumes for the Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). This feature enables customers to provision performance independent of storage capacity, and provides up to a 20% lower price point per GB. Now, customers can scale IOPS and throughput without needing additional block storage capacity, bringing both price and performance benefits to workloads. Read more here.
- Amazon EBS io2 volumes now support SAP workloads. The new io2 volumes have 99.999% durability, making AWS io2 storage ideal for running business-critical workloads that demand high availability, such as SAP HANA. In order to ensure full support from both AWS and SAP on these volumes, customers should see the requirements in SAP note #1656250. Get more details here.
- Amazon made a number of additional announcements during the first week of AWS re:Invent. To learn more, read our weekly recap of the conference here.
- Google Cloud Traffic Director, a managed service in Google Cloud Provider (GCP), can now send traffic to services and gateways that are hosted outside of Google Cloud. This is done using Hybrid Connectivity Network Endpoint Groups, and endpoints can reside on GCP Cloud, another cloud, or on-premises. The feature allows customers to migrate services to GCP and redirect traffic to endpoints that are not exposed to the internet. Learn more here.
- Google announced general availability of Container Threat Detection, which helps customers monitor and secure their container deployments in Google Cloud. This feature is part of Security Command Center Premium Tier service, and can identify the most common container runtime attacks, including suspicious binary executions and library load. It enables customers to detect and respond to threats running in a container environment. Find out more here.
If you have any questions about these product updates and how they can optimize your environment, please contact us at hello@navisite.com.
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