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AWS – AWS Now Allows Customers To Pay For Their Usage in Advance
With Advance Pay, you can now pay for your AWS usage in advance, and pay your future invoices automatically. Once you add funds to Advance Pay, AWS will automatically use them to pay for your invoices when they become due for payment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Simplify building of serverless applications with AWS-supported container images for continuous integration systems
You can now build serverless applications with new AWS-supported container images that simplify continuous integration tasks. Container images work natively with continuous integration systems such as CloudBees CI/Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and AWS CodeBuild. These make it easier to build and package serverless applications using Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) – […]
AWS – AQUA for Amazon Redshift launches in three additional AWS regions
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is now generally available in three additional AWS regions: Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore). Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Digital Twins plugin for Azure Data Explorer
Adding context to IoT data just became easier. Azure Digital Twins and Azure Data Explorer now seamlessly integrate, allowing you to allow you to contextualize time-series IoT data. Read More for the details.
GCP – A blueprint for secure infrastructure on Google Cloud
When it comes to infrastructure security, every stakeholder has the same goal: maintain the confidentiality and integrity of their company’s data and systems. Period. Developing and operating in the Cloud provides the opportunity to achieve these goals by being more secure and having greater visibility and governance over your resources and data. This is due […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports up to thirty instance type configurations in Instance Fleets
You can now specify up to 30 EC2 instance types for each of your master, core, and task node groups when using EMR Instance Fleets with allocation strategy. Previously, this was limited to 15 for tasks nodes, and only 5 for master and core nodes. This increase allows you to specify a broader range of […]
AWS – AWS Purchase Order Management now supports a TRN filter for AWS Europe
You can now use Tax Registration Numbers (TRN) as an additional filter for mapping your purchase orders to your invoices with AWS Purchase Order Management. AWS Purchase Order Management allows you to easily manage your purchase orders (POs) in a self-service manner, define PO-invoice association rules, track PO balance and expiration, and receive email alerts […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports case-insensitive collation with column level overrides
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports case-insensitive collation with column and expression level overrides. Starting today, you can use the COLLATE clause within a CREATE DATABASE statement to specify the default collation for all CHAR and VARCHAR columns in the database as case-sensitive or case-insensitive. You can also specify a COLLATE clause […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) Now Supports r5.8xlarge and r5.16xlarge Instances
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy and intuitive to store, query, and index JSON data. Read More for the details.