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AWS – Amazon RDS Free Tier now includes db.t3.micro, AWS Graviton2-based db.t4g.micro instances in all commercial regions
Starting today, the Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) free tier will include db.t3.micro and AWS Graviton2- based db.t4g.micro instances in all commercial regions. This provides you with more options in addition to the db.t2.micro instance in the current AWS Free Tier for new AWS customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) on RDS Service APIs
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) while accessing the RDS Service APIs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Regain Cloud SQL disk space with Database Migration Service
So you made a mistake, you pushed an application change that accidentally caused a massive surge of data to hit your database. And now your instance has made happy use of the feature of automatically expanding your storage when you get close to running out of disk space. Most of the time, this is a […]
Azure – Classic data export in Azure IoT Central will be retired by 31 March 2023
Migrate to new data exports in Azure IoT Central before 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.
Azure – Operator Assistance in Azure MFA will be retired on 30 September 2023
Turn off Operator Assistance and enable automated attendant features for phone system. Read More for the details.
GCP – How tens of thousands of Japanese found their way to COVID-19 vaccination centers with the help of Navagis and Google Maps Platform
Editor’s Note: David Moore, Founder and CEO of Navagis, shares his story of teaming up with the Google Maps Platform team to help people across Japan get vaccinated amid COVID-19 pandemic. The roots of Navagis go back to Hurricane Katrina, when I led an Army Corps of Engineers team that deployed 3D mapping technologies with […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling instance lifecycle states are now available via the Instance Metadata Service
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now publishes Auto Scaling instance lifecycle states in the Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS), enabling you to easily initiate on-instance actions as an instance transitions from one lifecycle state to another. Instances in an Auto Scaling group transition through various lifecycle states from the time they are launched and placed […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now allows customers to configure up to 10 GB of ephemeral storage for Lambda functions
AWS Lambda customers can now configure up to 10,240 MB of ephemeral storage for their Lambda functions, a 20x increase compared to the previous limit of 512 MB. This helps workloads such as financial analysis, machine learning inference, and media processing applications perform data intensive operations at scale. Read More for the details.
AWS – Extract custom entities from images and Textract JSON files with Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend now supports documents in image formats in addition to text, PDFs, and Word. Customers can now use Comprehend custom entity recognition to extract entities from image files (JPG, PNG, TIFF) and can also use Comprehend directly on Amazon Textract JSON outputs to extract custom entities from documents. With this launch customers can simplify their intelligent […]
AWS – AWS Support streamlines cases via Connector for Jira Service Management
Starting today, customers can use Atlassian Jira Service Management (JSM), Data Center version, as a single place to track and manage cases (incidents) from AWS Support via the AWS Service Management Connector for JSM. AWS Support enables users to create, track and resolve cases related to AWS resources in a central place, helping customers reduce the […]