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AWS – Amazon Redshift announces preview of cross-account data sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already generally available. Now you can preview cross-account data sharing to share data across Redshift […]

AWS – AWS Lambda@Edge now supports Node 14.x
Starting today, you can now use the Node.js 14.x runtime to develop functions in AWS Lambda@Edge. This runtime is in addition to the currently supported Node.js 10.x and Node.js 12.x runtimes. Node.js 14.x, the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Node.js, uses the new V8 8.1 engine and provides better performance than the previous […]

Azure – Azure Sphere version 21.04 is now generally available
The latest release of Azure Sphere brings enhancements and features to the OS, SDKs, and Visual Studio extensions. Read More for the details.

GCP – The modern web architecture jigsaw puzzle, made easy for you
Delivering web-based software is no longer as simple as ssh’ing into a LAMP server and vi’ing a php file. For good reasons, many of us have evolved practices and adopted technologies to address growing complexities and modern needs. Recently I put together a jigsaw puzzle of various technologies and practices so that I could deploy […]

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers a new feature enabling customers to purchase AMS separate from infrastructure services through their preferred Solution Provider
AWS Managed Services (AMS) is pleased to announce the ability for you to purchase AMS through your preferred Solution Provider, separately from your AWS infrastructure services. AMS understands the need for flexibility in how you buy AWS infrastructure services and AWS Managed Services based on the complexity of workloads and organizational needs. This new feature […]

AWS – AWS SAM CLI now supports AWS CDK applications – public preview
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI now supports AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) applications, as a public preview. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Framework for Apache is generally available
We’re excited to announce the launch of Amazon CloudWatch Monitoring Framework, a reference architecture that makes it easier for customers to set up Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to monitor Apache workloads running on AWS. Read More for the details.

GCP – Using TFX inference with Dataflow for large scale ML inference patterns
In part I of this blog series we discussed best practices and patterns for efficiently deploying a machine learning model for inference with Google Cloud Dataflow. Amongst other techniques, it showed efficient batching of the inputs and the use of shared.py to make efficient use of a model. In this post, we walk through the […]

AWS – Amazon Connect reduces telephony rates in Cyprus, Belgium, and Portugal
Amazon Connect reduces telephony rates for 3 countries in Europe: Cyprus, Belgium and Portugal. Starting April 1st, Amazon Connect, an easy to use omnichannel contact center service, decreased the following telephony rates in the EU (Frankfurt) and EU (London) regions: Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Network Firewall is now available in ten more regions
Starting today, AWS Network Firewall is available in the following ten additional regions: Africa (Cape Town) Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Asia Pacific (Osaka) Asia Pacific (Seoul) Canada (Central) Europe (Milano) Europe (Paris) Middle East (Bahrain) South America (São Paulo) US West (N. California) Read More for the details.