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AWS – AWS Marketplace introduces 8 decimal place precision for usage pricing
AWS Marketplace sellers can now price usage rates with up to 8 decimal places. This enhancement improves the precision of pay-as-you-go pricing where per-unit costs can be fractions of a cent ($0.00000001), enabling more accurate billing calculations for customers. Previously, AWS Marketplace sellers were limited to using only 3 decimal places for usage pricing, restricting […]

AWS – AWS Client VPN announces support for concurrent VPN connections
Today, AWS announces the general availability of concurrent VPN connections for AWS Client VPN. This feature allows you to securely connect to multiple Client VPN connections simultaneously, enabling access to your resources across different work environments. AWS Client VPN allows your users to securely connect to your network remotely from any location. Previously, you could […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now provides daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads
Amazon Connect now provides daily headcount projections in capacity plan downloads, enhancing your ability to review staffing requirements with greater precision. While capacity plans already provided weekly and monthly projections, this launch allows you to access day-by-day headcount requirements for up to 64 weeks into the future. This granular view simplifies key staffing and hiring […]

AWS – Amazon DynamoDB introduces warm throughput for tables and indexes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon DynamoDB now supports a new warm throughput value and the ability to easily pre-warm DynamoDB tables and indexes in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The warm throughput value provides visibility into the number of read and write operations your DynamoDB tables can readily handle, while pre-warming let’s you proactively increase the value to meet […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for History Mode for zero-ETL integrations
Today, Amazon Redshift announces the launch of history mode for zero-ETL integrations. This new feature enables you to build Type 2 Slowly Changing Dimension (SCD 2) tables on your historical data from databases, out-of-the-box in Amazon Redshift, without writing any code. History mode simplifies the process of tracking and analyzing historical data changes, allowing you […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 introduces provisioning control for On-Demand Capacity Reservations in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EC2 introduces new capabilities that make it easy for customers to target instance launches on their On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCRs). On-Demand Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for your workloads in a specified Availability Zone for any duration. You can now ensure instance launches are fulfilled exclusively by ODCRs, or prefer unutilized ODCRs […]

AWS – CloudWatch provides execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL
Amazon CloudWatch Database Insights now collects the query execution plans of top SQL queries running on Aurora PostgreSQL instances, and stores them over time. This feature helps you identify if a change in the query execution plan is the cause of performance degradation or a stalled query. Execution plan capture for Aurora PostgreSQL is available […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports null and NaN data types
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. announces that AWS IoT SiteWise now supports NULL and NaN (Not a Number) data of bad or uncertain data quality from industrial data sources. AWS IoT SiteWise is a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale. This new feature […]

GCP – Introducing BigQuery metastore, a unified metadata service with Apache Iceberg support
Does your organization use multiple data processing engines like BigQuery, Apache Spark, Apache Flink and Apache Hive? Wouldn’t it be great if you could provide a single source of truth for all of your analytics workloads? Now you can, with the public preview of BigQuery metastore, a fully managed, unified metadata service that provides processing […]
GCP – Discover and assess your database workloads migration to Google Cloud using Migration Center
Organizations continue to adopt the public cloud to deliver better business and IT outcomes. However, migration — and modernization — is a complex, multifaceted challenge. It involves understanding the current state of infrastructure and applications to determine what the future state should look like and how to get there. And all this occurs across multiple […]