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AWS – Amazon Location Service enables request-based pricing for all customer use cases
Amazon Location Service now offers request-based pricing for all customer use cases, including those with asset-based applications. For instance, if a developer building a delivery application needs to find the positions (latitude/longitude) associated with delivery addresses, they can pay per address searched. With Amazon Location, there are no upfront fees, no required minimum commitments, and no long-term […]
AWS – Announcing matrix routing for Amazon Location Service
Today, Amazon Location Service added matrix routing, making it easier for customers to quickly calculate driving time and driving distance between multiple origins and destinations. With matrix routing, developers can use a single API request to reduce the latency associated with multiple routing calculations, allowing them to simplify their code, and improve the experience of their […]
GCP – Webhook, Pub/Sub, and Slack Alerting notification channels launched
When an alert fires from your applications, your team needs to know as soon as possible to mitigate any user-facing issues. Customers with complex operating environments rely on incident management or related services to organize and coordinate their responses to issues. They need the flexibility to route alert notifications to platforms or services in the […]
GCP – Creating custom notifications with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Run
The uniqueness of each organization in the enterprise IT space creates interesting challenges in how they need to handle alerts. With many commercial tools in the IT Service Management (ITSM) market, and lots of custom internal tools, we equip teams with tools that are both flexible and powerful. This post is for Google Cloud customers […]
GCP – Keep tabs on your tables: Cloud SQL for MySQL launches database auditing
If you manage sensitive data in your MySQL database, you might be obligated to record and monitor user database activity, especially if you work in a regulated industry. Although you could set up MySQL’s slow query log or general log to create an audit trail of user activity, these logs significantly impact database performance and […]
GCP – New in Google Cloud VMware Engine: Single nodes, certifications and more
We’ve made several updates to Google Cloud VMware Engine in the past few months — today’s post provides a recap of our latest milestones. Google Cloud VMware Engine delivers an enterprise-grade VMware stack running natively in Google Cloud. This fully managed cloud service is one of the fastest paths to the cloud for VMware workloads […]
GCP – Retailers now need to “always be pivoting.” Here’s three moves keeping them going
For years, retailers have been told that they must embrace a litany of new technologies, trends, and imperatives like online shopping, mobile apps, omnichannel, and digital transformation. In search of growth and stability, retailers adopted many of these, only to realize that for every box they ticked, there was another one waiting. And then the […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto January Quarterly Updates
On January 18th, Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions. Corretto 11.0.14 and 8.322 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto 17 updates will be available shortly after the release is tagged in the OpenJDK 17 repository. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in US West (N. California)
EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now available in US West (N. California) region. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway management console simplifies gateway creation and management
AWS Storage Gateway now makes it simpler and faster for you to get started with setting up and managing your hybrid cloud storage workflow. Using the Storage Gateway management console, you can now quickly create a new gateway in four easy steps: First, complete your local gateway setup. Second, connect your gateway to AWS. Third, activate […]