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AWS – Achieve up to 34% better price/performance with AWS Lambda Functions powered by AWS Graviton2 processor
AWS Lambda functions powered by next-generation AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available. Graviton2 functions, using an Arm-based processor architecture, are designed to deliver up to 19% better performance at 20% lower cost for a variety of Serverless workloads, such as web and mobile backends, data, and media processing. With lower latency and better performance, functions […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now Generally Available with support for alert manager and rules
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now generally available. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project for monitoring and alerting that is optimized for container environments. Read […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, extending the footprint to 8 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Events is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS IoT Events is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App Mesh is now available in the AWS China (Beijing) Region and AWS China (Ningxia) Region
AWS App Mesh is now available in the Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easy for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute […]
Azure – General availability: Enable hierarchical namespace for existing Azure Storage accounts
Accelerating value through data analytics by enabling the Azure Data Lake Storage hierarchical namespace for existing Azure Storage accounts is now generally available. The benefits of the ADLS hierarchical namespace in providing enhanced performance and features that are dedicated to maximizing the value of data analytics is well established. You can now get this benefit for existing […]
AWS – Announcing general availability of Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying
With Amazon Redshift federated query capability, many customers have been able to combine live data from operational databases with the data in Amazon Redshift data warehouse and the data in Amazon S3 data lake environment in order to get unified analytics view across all the data in the enterprise. Now Amazon Redshift federated query support […]
GCP – Build and run a Discord bot on top of Google Cloud
Stuck at home these past–checks calendar–732 months, I’ve been spending a lot more time on Discord (an online voice, video and text communications service) than I ever thought I would. Chatting with far-flung friends, playing games, exploring, finding community as I am able, and generally learning about a platform I had not used all that […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces the next generation of Amazon Redshift Query Editor
Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query Editor V2, users can explore, analyze, and collaborate on data. It reduces the operational costs of managing query tools […]
GCP – Migrating table schemas from Apache HBase to Cloud Bigtable
Migrations of large workloads from Apache HBase to Cloud Bigtable are very common and we are trying to make them easier and faster. Cloud Bigtable is a natural fit for customers running their production workloads on HBase due to its scalability, low management overhead, high availability and HBase API compatibility. Today, customers migrating to Cloud […]