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GCP – Introducing Active Assist recommendations for BigQuery capacity planning
BigQuery already offers highly flexible pricingmodels, such as the on-demand and flat-rate pricing for running queries, to meet the diverse needs of our users. Today, we’re excited to make it even easier for you to optimize BigQuery usage with new BigQuery slot recommendations powered by Active Assist, a part of Google Cloud’s AIOps solution that […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 now reduces visibility of public Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) older than two years
Starting today, all public AMIs will have the deprecation time set to two years after their creation date. This means that public AMIs that are more than two years old will by default be deprecated. Once an AMI is deprecated, it will no longer appear in DescribeImages API calls for users that aren’t the owner […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway updates support for VMware and Microsoft hypervisors
AWS Storage Gateway adds support for VMware ESXi 7.0 and Microsoft Hyper-V 2022 and 2019 hypervisors, enabling you to deploy your gateway virtual machines on the latest versions of these hypervisors. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS announces increased service quota for container instances per cluster
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) today increased the default service quota for container instances per cluster. You can now launch up to 5,000 instances per cluster, an increase from 2,000. The limit increase enables customers to scale further and improve manageability of their clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Sustainability Pillar is now available in AWS Well-Architected Tool
AWS introduced the Sustainability Pillar during re:Invent 2021 to help customers minimize the environmental impacts of running cloud workloads. Today, the Sustainability Pillar is available for customers to use during workload reviews in the AWS Well-Architected Tool, a central place for cloud architecture best practices and guidance. The Sustainability Pillar is designed to help CTOs, […]
AWS – The AWS Lambda console now supports bulk update of layers
You can now select all or a subset of the functions that use a Lambda layer, and update them simultaneously to a newer layer version in the Lambda console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches Concurrency Scaling in the Europe (Stockholm) region
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the Europe (Stockholm) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in the AWS Canada (Central) region
You can now deploy Amazon AppStream 2.0 in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. Deploying AppStream 2.0 in your local region provides users with a more responsive experience and helps support your local data residency obligations. With this launch, you can deploy General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Memory Optimized, Graphics Design, Graphics Pro and Graphics G4 instances […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now supports template tagging and search in the console
Today, Amazon Pinpoint launched the ability to add tags to messaging templates in the template editor. Amazon Pinpoint is an omnichannel marketing and communication service that helps customers engage their users by sending messages through targeted messaging campaigns across email, SMS, push notification, in-app, and social media channels. A tag is a label that customers […]
GCP – Force Terraform resource recreation
Imagine that you provisioned a Terraform resource in your environment running on a public cloud, such as Google Cloud, and you need to destroy and recreate the resource so you can start from a clean state. Terraform gives you two tools to accomplish this: The terraform taint command, which instructs Terraform to mark an object […]