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GCP – Unlock more choice with updates to Google Cloud’s infrastructure capabilities and pricing
Over the past several years, Google Cloud has made significant investments in our infrastructure product portfolio. We launched new Tau T2D VMs, which deliver 42% better price-performance vs. other leading cloud providers. We upgraded Cloud Storage to offer more flexibility to support customers’ enterprise and analytics workloads, with dual-region buckets and upcoming Turbo Replication. And […]
GCP – Apollo Scales GraphQL Platform using GKE
Every business has tools they start with, tools they grow with or grow out of, and tools they adopt along the way. GraphQL is an open source query language that many companies are adopting to modernize the way they, or their users, query resources. In this video, Apollo tells the story of how they’re meeting […]
GCP – How Rhode Island created a virtual career center
2020 brought many challenges, especially as in-person operations were shut down, and many were left vulnerable to unemployment. The State of Rhode Island responded to these challenges, by modernizing their workforce development operations and moving completely to a custom online platform called the Virtual Career Center, also nicknamed “the VCC.” Snapshot of the Virtual Career […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor versions 5.7.37 and 8.0.28
Following the announcement of updates in MySQL database versions 5.7 and 8.0, we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL to support MySQL minor versions 5.7.37, and 8.0.28. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from […]
AWS – AWS Lambda announces support for PrincipalOrgID in resource-based policies
AWS Lambda now supports the aws:PrincipalOrgID condition key in Lambda function resource-based policies. Customers can use resource-based policies for Lambda functions including specific version or alias to grant usage permissions for other AWS accounts or AWS services. The aws:PrincipalOrgID condition key is designed to control access to AWS resources by using the AWS organization of IAM […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports AWS CloudFormation templates
Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Personalize now supports AWS CloudFormation, an AWS service which allows you to automate the setup and deployment of resources through JSON/YAML text files, also called templates. You can use these templates to create or delete Personalize […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports live transcription with automatic language identification
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Live transcription uses an integration with Amazon Transcribe to generate live audio transcription for use as subtitles or transcripts. Starting today, developers can use automatic language identification to detect the language spoken and generate transcriptions in that language. Read […]
AWS – AWS CodeBuild supports Arm-based workloads in four additional regions
AWS CodeBuild’s support for Arm using Graviton2 is now available in: Europe (Paris), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), and Europe (London). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports cross-account Glue Data Catalog S3 access
AWS Glue DataBrew customers are now able to access AWS Glue Data Catalog S3 tables from other AWS accounts if an appropriate resource policy is created in the AWS Glue console. After creating a policy, the relevant Data Catalog S3 tables can be selected as input sources when creating a DataBrew dataset, making it easier to […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge launches enhanced Rule Filtering and Event Transformation capabilities in the Management Console
Amazon EventBridge’s updated console capabilities are now generally available in all AWS regions where EventBridge is available. Customers can use these new capabilities improve the experience of testing and configuring event patterns, transform events, and set up rules and targets. Read More for the details.