Get Your Head In the Clouds (Part 2 of 3): Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering Now in DataStax Astra DBaaS

This week, DataStax announced that its cloud-based database service, Astra, is now available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. New features include Storage-Attached Indexing (SAI), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering, and support for multi-region databases. VPC Peering enables users to connect their virtual private cloud (VPC) environment where they run their code, to the Astra environment where they store their data over a completely private network connection that is not accessible to unauthorized parties. This feature significantly reduces the potential attack surface of the connection between Astra and applications that rely on it. For more information about DataStax Astra's architecture and security features, check out this whitepaper.