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AWS – Amazon DynamoDB increases default service quotas to simplify use of large numbers of tables
Amazon DynamoDB increases default service quotas to simplify use of large numbers of tables. DynamoDB increased the default quota for the number of DynamoDB tables you can create and manage per AWS account and AWS Region from 256 to 2,500 tables. DynamoDB also increased the number of table management operations you can perform concurrently from 50 […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults
Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECS Update Service API now supports updating Elastic Load Balancers, Service Registries, Tag Propagation, and ECS Managed Tags
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now supports updating Elastic Load Balancers, Service Registries, Tag Propagation, and ECS Managed Tags for an existing ECS service. The added flexibility makes it easier for customers to update their Amazon ECS service configurations, without having to recreate their services, thus reducing operational overhead and potential service disruption. Read More […]

GCP – Advancing Autonomic Security Operations: New resources for your modernization journey
We launched our Autonomic Security Operations solution with a mission to accelerate the world’s adoption of more modern threat management strategies. Ultimately, the goal is to shift the industry away from a product-centric approach to detection and response to a more principled approach focused on modernizing your Security Operations workflows, personnel, and underlying technologies to […]

GCP – Special delivery: Nuro builds the future of autonomous robotics with a new Google transfer feature
Engineers that build last-mile delivery services belong to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. Delivery customers are incredibly demanding when it comes to speed and convenience, and the services they use must take variables like increased traffic, road conditions, human error, and even driver availability into account every day. Nuro is a company with a […]

GCP – Building continuous integration & continuous delivery for autonomous vehicles on Google Cloud
San Francisco’s roads are a notoriously tough place for people to drive. Narrow streets, busy pedestrian traffic, and an extensive network of bicycle routes make driving through San Francisco roughly 40 times more complex than driving in a suburban environment, according to Cruise data. This level of complexity makes San Francisco, America’s second densest city, […]

GCP – Evolving to a programmable cloud
Harnessing the power of data is key to the success of organizations. However, what it means to be data-driven changes as the nature of business and user expectations also change. In today’s fast-paced landscape, organizations need to immediately react to data. Users expect action using up-to-date, real-time data and insights. Building applications and systems that […]

GCP – The L’Oréal Beauty Tech Data Platform – A data story of terabytes and serverless
Editor’s note: In Today’s guest post we hear from beauty leader L’Oréal about their approach to building a modern data platform on fully managed services: managing the ingest of diverse datasets into BigQuery with Cloud Run, and orchestrating transformations into relevant business domain representations for stakeholders across the organization. Learn more about how businesses have […]

GCP – Learn how to stream JSON data into BigQuery using the new BigQuery Storage Write API
The Google BigQuery Write API offers high-performance batching and streaming in one unified API. The previous post in this series introduced the BigQuery Write API. In this post, we’ll show how to stream JSON data to BigQuery by using the Java client library. The Write API expects binary data in protocol buffer format. This makes […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now enables you to customize data aggregation in the console
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, which combines contact history from Amazon Connect with disparate customer data from third-party applications into a unified customer profile, now provides a no-code experience for configuring how customer data from sources such as Salesforce and S3 is aggregated into a profile. This helps makes it simple for admins to provide agents with […]