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GCP – Tell a more complete data story with customized Looker charts and visualizations
Data is just a collection of numbers — unless you can use it to gain information and tell a story. At Google Cloud, we are continually expanding Looker’s capabilities to help you tell your data story and collaborate with metrics you can trust. Recently, we expanded the ability to convert out-of-the-box Looker visualizations with bullet […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics now supports canary tag replication to associated AWS Lambda resource
Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics, an outside-in monitoring capability to continually verify your customers’ experience using snippets of code called canaries, now supports replication of tags created on canaries to the associated AWS Lambda function to help you better identify and organize your AWS resources. You can now also filter canaries by tags on the canaries list […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Africa (Cape Town) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Amazon EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights supports Aurora cluster-level configuration
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now supports configuration at the Aurora cluster level. Customers can configure Performance Insights or Enhanced Monitoring on all the instances within an Aurora cluster with a single click in the console or through APIs. With this launch, customers no longer need to spend manual effort to configure Performance […]
AWS – OR1 instances now available for existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains
With OpenSearch 2.15, you can now leverage OR1 instances for your existing Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. OR1 delivers up to 30% price-performance improvement over existing instances (based on internal benchmarks), and uses Amazon S3 to provide 11 9s of durability. You can start using OR1 by simply updating your existing domain configuration, and choosing OR1 […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management adds enhancements to Software Package Catalog and Jobs
Today, AWS announces general availability of new capabilities and usability improvements for the AWS IoT Device Management Software Package Catalog (SPC) and AWS IoT Device Management Jobs. With these new capabilities, you can now: Associate and store industry-standard Software Bill of Material (SBOM) files with package versions to gain granular insights into your software’s composition, […]
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now includes enhanced monitoring
Today, we launched an enhanced monitoring dashboard for your AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) tasks. You can now experience greatly improved monitoring capabilities for the database and analytics workloads DMS is processing as it moves data between different services and locations. These new dashboard improvements make it easier to monitor the health of data […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G6 instances now available in Spain region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 GPUs are now available in Europe (Spain) region. G6 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics-intensive and machine learning use cases. Customers can use G6 instances for deploying ML models for natural language processing, language translation, video […]
AWS – Amazon SES now offers automated complaint rate recommendations
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) has launched a new feature through the Virtual Deliverability Manager (VDM) Advisor, which aims to increase awareness among customers when their complaint rates approach or exceed levels allowed by best practices. This feature allows customers to monitor the potential impact on their sending reputation they have due to high […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management
We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Container Management, based on its Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Gartner predicts that by 2028, “80% of custom software running at the physical edge will be deployed […]