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AWS – AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript is now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript, an open-source developer library to help you incorporate Well-Architected Serverless best practices into your Lambda function code as early and as fast as possible. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition now supports R6i instances
Amazon Aurora now supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources […]
GCP – How to run SAP on Google Cloud when high availability is high priority
Over the past couple of years, businesses across every industry have faced unexpected challenges in keeping their enterprise IT systems safe, secure, and available to users. Many have experienced sudden spikes or drops in demand for their products and services and most are now operating in a hybrid work environment. In such changing conditions, with […]
GCP – Moving data from the mainframe to the cloud made easy
IBM mainframes have been around since the 1950s and are still vital for many organizations. In recent years many companies that rely on mainframes have been working towards migrating to the cloud. This is motivated by the need to stay relevant, the increasing shortage of mainframe experts and the cost savings offered by cloud solutions. […]
GCP – Performance considerations for loading data into BigQuery
It is not unusual for customers to load very large data sets into their enterprise data warehouse. Whether you are doing an initial data ingestion with hundreds of TB of data or incrementally loading from your systems of record, performance of bulk inserts is key to quicker insights from the data. The most common architecture […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports increased limits to improve the accuracy of your models
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning enables you to find the most accurate version of a machine learning (ML) model by finding the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations for your dataset. SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports increased limits for two service quotas, with up to 50% higher number of total training jobs that can be […]
GCP – Debugging cloud spanner latency using OpenCensus and Go client library
You may have faced a situation where your client reported high latency while your Cloud Spanner metrics didn’t show the corresponding latency. This article describes a case study of increased client side latency caused by session pool exhaustion and how you can diagnose the situation by using OpenCensus features and Cloud Spanner client library for […]
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. The expansion of AWS FIS into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions allows US government agencies and contractors to create and run fault injection experiments that reveal how their applications respond to stress under real world conditions. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager now supports AWS Network Firewall strict rule order with alert and drop configurations
AWS Firewall Manager now enables you to centrally deploy AWS Network Firewalls with additional strict rule order, default deny, and default drop configurations. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon VPC Flow Logs adds Transit Gateway support for improved visibility and monitoring
Starting today, Amazon VPC Flow Logs adds support for Transit Gateway. With this feature, Transit Gateway can export detailed telemetry information such as source/destination IP addresses, ports, protocol, traffic counters, timestamps and various metadata for all of its network flows. This feature provides you with an AWS native tool to centrally export and inspect flow-level […]