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AWS – Announcing the new Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class – the lowest cost archive storage with milliseconds retrieval
Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is a new archive storage class that delivers the lowest cost storage for long-lived data that is rarely accessed and requires milliseconds retrieval. With S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, you can save up to 68% on storage costs compared to using the S3 Standard-Infrequent Access storage class, when your data is […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon FSx for OpenZFS
Amazon FSx for OpenZFS enables you to launch, run, and scale fully managed file systems on AWS that replace the ZFS or other Linux-based file servers you run on premises while helping to provide better agility and lower costs. FSx for OpenZFS is the newest member of the Amazon FSx family of services, which provides […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Object Ownership can now disable access control lists to simplify access management for data in S3
Amazon S3 introduces a new S3 Object Ownership setting, Bucket owner enforced, that disables access control lists (ACLs), simplifying access management for data stored in S3. When you apply this bucket-level setting, every object in an S3 bucket is owned by the bucket owner, and ACLs are no longer used to grant permissions. As a result, […]
GCP – Shopify engineers deliver on peak performance during Black Friday Cyber Monday 2021
Many predicted this would be the biggest Black Friday/Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend ever recorded. And it looks like those predictions were right — especially for independent and direct to consumer (DTC) brands. Shopify, a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, works with more than 1.7 million merchants worldwide. Over the course of the […]
GCP – Announcing version 6.0 of the Maps and Places SDKs for iOS
Today, we released new versions of the Maps and Places SDKs for iOS. Version 6.0 helps improve developer velocity by expanding supported iOS versions to iOS 12, and by providing preview support for XCFrameworks which contain the binaries necessary to develop on iOS 14+ simulators on Apple M1 machines. This version also adds a new […]
GCP – API management on Google Cloud
APIs are the de facto standard for building and sharing the modern applications that power today’s enterprises. All modern businesses leverage APIs to move fast and stay competitive. But securely delivering, managing, and analyzing APIs, data, and services is complex and critical—and it’s getting more challenging as enterprise ecosystems expand beyond on-premises data centers to include […]
AWS – Amazon Athena now supports new Lake Formation fine-grained security and reliable table features
Amazon Athena users can now use AWS Lake Formation to configure fine-grained access permissions and read from ACID-compliant tables. Amazon Athena makes it simple for users to analyze data in Amazon S3-based data lakes to help ensure that users only have access to data to which they’re authorized and that their queries are reliable in the face […]
AWS – AWS Outposts is Now Available in Two Smaller Form Factors
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AWS – New connectivity software, AWS IoT ExpressLink, accelerates IoT development (Preview)
AWS IoT ExpressLink (Preview) is connectivity software that powers a range of hardware modules developed and offered by AWS Partners, such as Espressif, Infineon, and u-blox. These connectivity modules include AWS-validated software, making it faster and easier for you to securely connect almost any product to the cloud in a fraction of the time and […]
AWS – Announcing AWS IoT FleetWise (Preview), a new service for transferring vehicle data to the cloud more efficiently
Today, we are announcing AWS IoT FleetWise, a new service that makes it easier and more cost effective for automakers to collect, transform, and transfer vehicle data to the cloud in near-real time. Once the data is in the cloud, automakers can use it for tasks like remotely diagnosing issues in individual vehicles, analyzing vehicle […]