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AWS – Amazon Neptune Database is now available in AWS Europe (Spain) Region
Amazon Neptune Database is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region on engine versions 1.1.0.0 and later. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5, R5d, R6g, R6i, X2idn, T3, and T4 instance types in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Amazon Neptune Database is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database as a […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases now supports cross-region inference
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases announces support for cross-region inference, an optional feature that enables developers to seamlessly manage traffic bursts by utilizing compute across different AWS Regions. By using cross-region inference, Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base customers using RetrieveAndGenerate API will be able to get higher throughput limits and enhanced resilience during periods of peak demand. […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito user pools now offer email as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) option
Amazon Cognito has expanded multi-factor authentication (MFA) functionality to include email as an additional factor. You now have a choice of delivering one-time passwords (OTP) using email, in addition to the preexisting support for text messages (SMS) and time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). You can enable email MFA either as part of the sign in process […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports higher base capacity of 1024 Redshift Processing Units
Amazon Redshift Serverless now allows you to set a higher data warehouse base capacity configuration up to 1024 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs). Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the highest base capacity was 512 RPUs. […]
GCP – Want to save on GKE block storage costs? Hyperdisk Storage Pools can help
Whether you are administering traditional VMs, GKE clusters, or a combination of the two, it’s important to automate as many of your operational tasks as possible in the most cost-effective manner, and where possible, get rid of them altogether! Hyperdisk is a next-generation network attached block storage service, and Hyperdisk Storage Pools are a pre-purchased […]
GCP – How EA Sports protects their game servers with Cloud Armor
Electronic Arts (EA) is a global leader in digital interactive entertainment, known for its cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies. So when EA Sports FC, a leading brand in the gaming industry, needed to choose a cloud provider to host its gaming infrastructure, they selected Google Cloud Armor to protect its game servers and […]
GCP – Test it out: an online shopping demo experience with Gemini and RAG
Earlier this year, tens of thousands of developers gathered in Las Vegas for Google Cloud Next ’24, which culminated in hundreds of sessions and over 200 announcements. During the Developer Keynote, we showcased how Gemini can help with the shopping experience of an online store. Let’s dive into this demo and how it all worked […]
GCP – Announcing the 11th Annual Flare-On Challenge
Written by: Nick Harbour When it’s pumpkin spice season, that means it’s also Flare-On Challenge season. The Flare-On Challenge is a reverse engineering contest held every year by the FLARE team, and this marks its eleventh year running. It draws thousands of players from around the world every year, and is the foremost single-player CTF-style […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available, enabling near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) on petabytes of transactional data. With this launch, you can create multiple zero-ETL integrations from a single Amazon RDS database, and you can apply data filtering for each integration to include or exclude specific […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Israel (Tel Aviv) regions. With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users, including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get […]