Public preview: DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB
<p>We are excited to announce the public preview of DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB. </p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
Month: March 2016
General availability: Virtual Machine Scale Sets
<p>Easily deploy a large number of virtual machines by using Virtual Machine Scale Sets, now generally available at no additional cost! </p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
CloudWatch Events now Supports Amazon SQS Queue Targets
The Amazon CloudWatch Events service now supports Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) queues as event targets. Source: Amazon Web Services News
How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04
Introduction Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority (CA) that provides an easy way to obtain and install free TLS/SSL certificates, thereby enabling encrypted HTTPS on web servers. It simplifies the process by providing a software client, letsencrypt, that attempts to automate most (if not all) of the required steps. Currently, as Let’s Encrypt is Read more about How To Secure Nginx with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 16.04[…]
AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks for Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, EC2 Reserved Instances, security, and service limits
Four new checks have been added to Trusted Advisor to provide recommendations related to Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances, and security. Additionally, the service limits check now includes IAM. These checks provide further guidance to help provision your resources based on AWS best practices. Amazon S3 Bucket Versioning (New): Checks for Amazon Read more about AWS Trusted Advisor adds checks for Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, EC2 Reserved Instances, security, and service limits[…]
Azure DevTest Labs: Monthly Estimated Cost Trend chart
<p>With Azure DevTest Labs, you can monitor cost using cost thresholds. </p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
Microsoft Azure IoT reference architecture available
<p>The Microsoft Azure IoT reference architecture provides guidance for building secure and scalable, device-centric solutions for connecting devices, conducting analysis, and integrating with back-end systems.</p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
Update: Automation Hybrid Worker
<p>An update to Automation Hybrid Worker has just been released.</p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
Announcing: New Dv2-series virtual machine size
<p>A larger virtual machine size, the Standard_D15_v2, has joined the Dv2-series and offers 20 CPU cores, 140 GB of memory, 1,000 GB of temporary SSD, up to 8 virtual NICs, up to 40 data disks, and very high network bandwidth.</p> Source: Microsoft Azure News
Amazon Redshift now supports using IAM roles with COPY and UNLOAD commands
You can now assign one or more AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to your Amazon Redshift cluster for data loading and exporting. Amazon Redshift assumes the assigned IAM roles when you load data into your cluster using the COPY command or export data from your cluster using the UNLOAD command. It uses the Read more about Amazon Redshift now supports using IAM roles with COPY and UNLOAD commands[…]