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GCP – How to deploy the Google Cloud Ops Agent with Ansible
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations teams responsible for operating virtual machines (VMs) are always looking for ways to provide a more reliable, more scalable environment for their development partners. Part of providing that stable experience is having telemetry data (metrics, logs and traces) from systems and applications so you can monitor and troubleshoot effectively. […]
GCP – Where is your Cloud Bigtable cluster spending its CPU
CPU utilization is a key performance indicator for Cloud Bigtable. Understanding CPU spend is essential for optimizing Bigtable performance and cost. We have significantly improved Bigtable’s observability by allowing you to visualize your Bigtable cluster’s CPU utilization in more detail. We now provide you with the ability to break the utilization down by various dimensions […]
GCP – Crate and Barrel boosts online customer experience with better site search powered by Lucidworks on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that has seen tremendous change. We hope you enjoy these series of guest blogs from our partners. Crate and Barrel […]
AWS – Announcing the new Console Home in AWS Management Console
Today, we launched the new Console Home, a customizable home page for the AWS Management Console that offers customers a single place to access the information they need. The new Console Home provides customers the capability to customize their Console Home experience by adding, removing, and rearranging widgets. In some of the widgets, customers can […]
AWS – AWS Fargate is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Fargate is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS AppSync now supports cache entry eviction for server-side data caching
AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources. Today, we are happy to announce that AppSync now supports eviction of specific entries from AppSync’s built-in server-side cache. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kendra launches support for query language
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Today, we are excited to announce Kendra’s support for query language, allowing customers to use more advanced search terminology and techniques when needed, to retrieve more precise answers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Announces New Launch Speed Optimizations for Microsoft Windows Server Instances on Amazon EC2
Today AWS announced the ability to launch Microsoft Windows Server instances up to 65% faster on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Customers can flag any Amazon Machine Image (AMI) running Microsoft Windows Server to launch faster. Once flagged, every instance launched from the AMI will automatically launch faster. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules
You can now use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to specify custom data validation rules for your external tables when querying the Amazon S3 data lake. This enhancement allows you to control how Redshift Spectrum processes data containing unexpected values such as unsupported UTF-8 characters or numeric overflow in your external tables. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now adds AWS Service Catalog integration for Microsoft SQL Server deployments
AWS Launch Wizard now creates an AWS Service Catalog product when the SQL Server deployment is complete. You can then use the AWS Service Catalog product for repeated SQL Server deployments on EC2. This feature simplifies your subsequent SQL Server deployments, saves time by reusing associated configuration scripts, and makes the integration with your existing […]