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GCP – Microservices architecture on Google Cloud
The evolution of technologies such as containerization, container orchestration, and cloud-native serverless services has given us the ability to develop distributed solutions based on microservices architectures that are both more scalable and more reliable. Click to enlarge What is microservices architecture? Microservices architecture (often shortened to microservices) refers to an architectural style for developing applications. […]
AWS – AWS announces the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags in preview
Today, we are announcing the launch of AWS AppConfig Feature Flags, which will enable you to move faster and safer while releasing new features to your customers. Feature flags allow you to release features to your applications, independent of code deployments. Development teams often coordinate application feature releases along with a large-scale marketing event and […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports MySQL 8.0
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports MySQL major version 8.0. MySQL 8.0 includes improved performance functionality from enhancements such as instant DDL to speed up the overall process of creating and loading a table and its associated indexes and SKIP LOCKED and NOWAIT options to avoid waiting for other transactions to release row locks. MySQL […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift simplifies the use of other AWS services by introducing the default IAM role
Amazon Redshift now simplifies the use of other services such as Amazon S3, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, Amazon Aurora, and AWS Glue by allowing customers to create an IAM role from the Redshift console and assigning it as the default IAM role while creating an Amazon Redshift cluster. The default IAM role helps simplify SQL […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in Europe (Paris) and South America (Sao Paulo)
EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to announce that EMR Studio is now available in the Europe (Paris), and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now makes it more efficient to troubleshoot access denied errors in AWS
To help you quickly troubleshoot your permissions in Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now includes the policy type that’s responsible for the denied permissions in access denied error messages. Amazon Sagemaker, AWS CodeCommit and AWS Secrets Manager are among the first AWS services that now offer this additional context, with other […]
AWS – Bottlerocket is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Bottlerocket, a Linux-based operating system designed to run container workloads is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – The dashboard feature is now generally available in AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager now offers a dashboard to simplify your audit preparations with at-a-glance views of your evidence collection status per control. You can instantly track the progress of your audit assessments relative to common control domains. These control domains are general categories of controls, not specific to any one framework that allow customers to […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service adds high resolution metrics for monitoring stream health
With Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) you can now monitor the health of your live stream inputs using four new Amazon CloudWatch metrics and two new APIs. These metrics and APIs can help you diagnose and troubleshoot issues with live streams either as they happen or after the streams have ended. You can also use APIs […]
Azure – General availability: New Sweden Central region added to Azure HDInsight
HDInsight is now available in more European regions, Sweden Central. Read More for the details.