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AWS – Amplify Admin UI now supports importing existing Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools
Amplify Admin UI now supports importing existing Amazon Cognito User Pools and Identity Pools. This means you can link your Cognito User Pool and Identity Pool resources to your Amplify app to take advantage of authorization scenarios for your data model, and manage users and groups directly from the Admin UI. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports the consistent hash exchange type
You can now use the consistent hash exchange type on your Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ brokers. This exchange type uses consistent hashing to uniformly distribute messages across queues. Consistent hash exchanges are useful in applications like transaction processing to maintain the order of dependent messages while scaling up the number of consumers. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Athena adds parameterized queries to improve reusability and security
Amazon Athena users can now leverage the reusability, simplification, and security benefits of parameterized queries. Available today, analysts can save time and eliminate errors by converting queries that have frequently modified criteria, such as date filters or aggregation periods, into a parameterized query that serves multiple use cases. Application developers can use them to safeguard […]
Azure – Public Preview: Form Recognizer container support
Announcing the public preview release of Form Recognizer containers. Form Recognizer is now also available in the following docker containers – Layout, Business Card, ID Document, Receipt, Invoice and Custom containers for you to run locally. Read More for the details.
AWS – CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available in the AWS Middle East (Bahrain) region. Using Container Insights, DevOps and systems engineers can monitor, isolate, and diagnose containerized applications and microservices environments through automated dashboards. This helps you visualize the performance and health of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate resources including […]
Azure – Virtual Machine (VM) bursting is now generally available on more VM types
Virtual Machine (VM) bursting is now available for the following virtual machines: Dsv4, Dasv4, Ddsv4, Esv4, Easv4, Edsv4, Fsv2 and B-series virtual machines. VM bursting enables customers’ workloads to handle unforeseen disk traffic spikes smoothly without the need to overprovision their virtual machine. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery admin reference guide: Tables & routines
Last week in our BigQuery Reference Guide series, we spoke about the BigQuery resource hierarchy – specifically digging into project and dataset structures. This week, we’re going one level deeper and talking through some of the resources within datasets. In this post, we’ll talk through the different types of tables available inside of BigQuery, and […]
GCP – The ultimate App Engine cheat sheet
App Engine is a fully managed serverless compute option in Google Cloud that you can use to build and deploy low-latency, highly scalable applications. App Engine makes it easy to host and run your applications. It scales them from zero to planet scale without you having to manage infrastructure. App Engine is recommended for a […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 in Hong Kong and China Regions (Beijing, Ningxia)
Amazon Redshift RA3 is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region, China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet, and China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs and also enable you to securely and easily […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaPackage extends its metadata passthrough capabilities
AWS Elemental MediaPackage now supports timed ID3 metadata passthrough for live and VOD streams in HLS, CMAF, and DASH formats. ID3 metadata tags enable data to be embedded into video streams at specified timecodes and used by downstream systems or clients to enhance the playback experience. By dynamically adding metadata to a stream, you can […]