Weekly Cloud Provider News – AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Backup, Azure Security Center, Google Cloud SQL
Each week, we highlight the latest cloud provider news from the industry’s top providers. This week, AWS Transit Gateway adds IP Multicast, Azure Backup adds two new features, new Azure Security Center enhancements, and Google Cloud SQL supports PostgreSQL 13.
- AWS Transit Gateway now supports IP Multicast in major AWS regions worldwide. IP multicast allows applications to communicate and distribute data to multiple recipients in a single transmission. Many apps are built to make use of multicast, but until now there has not been support for it across major AWS regions. With multicast now available, customers can move Oracle RAC databases into AWS and retain a multi-node architecture. Read more here.
- Azure Backup has added two new features – Soft Delete for Azure Backup for SQL and SAP HANA in Azure Virtual Machines. These new capabilities give IT organizations another layer of protection for mission-critical data and further enhances Microsoft’s stance as a public cloud offering for organizations looking to ensure their data is secured and restorable. Learn more here.
- Azure Security Center has added new enhancements and updates, including a preview feature that helps customers centralize their estate security management. Customers will now have a single portal that delivers a full understanding of the current security overview. In addition, Azure added the ability to perform on-premises and multi-cloud vulnerability assessments, which greatly simplifies a security operations team’s work stream. Get more details here.
- Google Cloud SQL, Google’s fully managed database service for PostgreSQL, now supports PostgreSQL 13. With PostgreSQL, customers get access to the latest features while allowing Cloud SQL to handle heavy operational lifting, so IT teams can focus on faster application delivery. PostgreSQL 13 delivers a wide range of performance improvements, including enhanced partitioning capabilities, increased index and vacuum efficiency, and better extended monitoring. Read more here.
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