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AWS – Sheet Change Performance Optimizations is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight now only refreshes visuals when switching sheets if required, such as when a parameter filter change is made. This creates a seamless sheet change experience for users by further enhancing QuickSight visual load time performance. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Google Cloud BigQuery enables big DevOps at JFrog
Editor’s note: Today we’re hearing from Mitali Bisht, Software Engineer at JFrog on how BigQuery and Data Studio powers operational analytics on the JFrog DevOps Platform. At JFrog, we know that keeping DevOps running smoothly requires knowing as much as you can about those operations. It’s a key principle of Artifactory, our artifact repository manager […]
GCP – Modernizing compliance: Introducing Risk and Compliance as Code
Almost all publicly reported breaches in the cloud stem from misconfigurations, rather than from attacks that compromise underlying cloud infrastructure. Misconfigurations continue to be a source of security risk because most security and compliance practices play catchup – teams are involved later in the CI/CD process and misconfigurations are identified at runtime, instead of during […]
GCP – Update on Google Cloud’s Work with the U.S. Government
The United States Department of Defense is set to issue the replacement for its JEDI cloud procurement framework, and renamed the new framework JWCC. Recently, there has been some speculation and confusion regarding Google’s interest in participating in the framework and other workstreams the Google Cloud team has been working on with the government, including […]
GCP – Avoiding GCF anti-patterns part 4: How to handle Promises correctly in your Node.js Cloud Function
Editor’s note: Over the next several weeks, you’ll see a series of blog posts focusing on best practices for writing Google Cloud Functions based on common questions or misconceptions as seen by the Support team. We refer to these as “anti-patterns” and offer you ways to avoid them. This article is the fourth post in the […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases SharePoint Connector to enable SharePoint site search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index and search documents from Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or Microsoft SharePoint 2016 servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6i instances are now available in 5 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6gd and C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 now available in additional regions
Starting today, general-purpose Amazon EC2 M6gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Europe (London). The compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6gd instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Canada (Central), and Europe (London). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QLDB is now available in the Canada (Central) region
Starting today, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is available in the Canada (Central) region. With this launch, QLDB is now available in 11 Regions globally: Canada (Central), US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific […]
AWS – Amazon ECS has improved Capacity Providers to deliver faster Cluster Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) has improved Amazon ECS Capacity Providers to deliver a faster Cluster Auto Scaling experience. Customers who need to launch a large number of tasks (>100 tasks) on their Amazon ECS clusters will now see their cluster infrastructure scale faster. Read More for the details.