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AWS – Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans
Amazon Athena now displays the computational cost of your queries alongside their execution plans. With the release of the EXPLAIN ANALYZE statement, Athena can now execute your specified query and return a detailed breakdown of its execution plan along with the CPU usage of each stage and the number of rows processed. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations
We are pleased to announce that you can now view the insights generated across all the accounts in your organization from a single delegated administrator account. Insights are alerts generated when Amazon DevOps Guru detects operational issues while monitoring your applications. These insights identify active or impending application issues, point to the likely cause of the […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports managed Firmware Over-the-Air Update
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) of AWS IoT Core that lets wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology connect to the AWS cloud. Now, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports Firmware Over-the-Air Update (FUOTA) that allows customers to deliver secure and reliable firmware […]
GCP – Automatically clean up unneeded data with TTL for Cloud Spanner
Google Cloud is excited to announce the general availability of time to live (TTL) for Cloud Spanner. As a part of a broader suite of enterprise management capabilities, TTL allows database administrators to set policies to periodically delete ephemeral, temporary, or unneeded data from Spanner tables. Purging unnecessary data helps: Decrease storage and backup costs […]
GCP – Choosing a network connectivity option in Google Cloud
The cloud is an incredible resource, but you can’t get the most out of it if you can’t interact with it efficiently. And because network connectivity is not a one-size-fits-all situation, you need options for connecting your on-premises network or another cloud provider to Google’s network. When you need to connect to Google’s network you […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports inference testing with custom domains and headers from SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker Studio now enables customers to make test inference requests to endpoints with a custom URL and endpoints that require specific headers. Amazon SageMaker helps data scientists and developers to prepare, build, train, and deploy high-quality machine learning (ML) models quickly by bringing together a broad set of capabilities purpose-built for ML. Amazon SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports cross-account container image pulling from Amazon Elastic Container Registry
AWS Lambda now allows you to create or update your functions with container images stored in an Amazon ECR repository in a different AWS account than that of your AWS Lambda function. Previously, you could only access container images stored in an Amazon ECR repository in the same AWS account as your AWS Lambda functions. If […]
AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data between Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and AWS Storage services
AWS DataSync now supports transferring data between Hadoop Distributed File Systems (HDFS) and Amazon S3, Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Using DataSync, you can quickly, easily, and securely migrate files and folders from HDFS on your Hadoop cluster to AWS Storage. You can also use DataSync to replicate data […]
AWS – Simplify CI/CD Configuration for AWS Serverless Applications and your favorite CI/CD system – General Availability
You can now create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that follow your organization’s best practices with a new pipeline configuration capability for serverless applications. AWS Serverless Application Model Pipelines (AWS SAM Pipelines) is a new feature of AWS SAM CLI that gives you access to benefits of CI/CD in minutes, such as accelerating […]
GCP – Research: Search abandonment has a lasting impact on brand loyalty
Search abandonment—when a consumer searches for a product on a retailer’s website but does not find what they are looking for—costs retailers more than $300 billion annually in the United States alone. Today, we’re releasing more data about the costs of search abandonment, including its ongoing impact to brand loyalty, as found by a Google Cloud-commissioned […]