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GCP – Introducing Unattended Project Recommender: discover, reclaim, or deprecate abandoned projects under your organization
In fast-moving organizations, it’s not uncommon for cloud resources, including entire projects, to occasionally be forgotten about. Not only such unattended resources can be difficult to identify, but they also tend to create a lot of headaches for product teams down the road, including unnecessary waste and security risks. To help you prune your idle […]
GCP – New This Month in Data Analytics: Taking Home the Gold in Data
As the Olympics kicked off in Tokyo at the end of July, we found ourselves reflecting on the beauty of diverse countries and cultures coming together to celebrate greatness and sportsmanship. For this month’s blog, we’d like to highlight some key data and analytics performances that should help inspire you to reach new heights in […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling enhances Instance Refresh with configuration checks, Launch Template validation, and Amazon EventBridge notifications
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Instance Refresh now supports performing updates to the Auto Scaling group (ASG) configuration as well as the ability to skip replacing already updated instances during an Instance Refresh. These new capabilities make it easier to deploy changes to an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) or install additional software in a controlled manner. […]
GCP – MySQL major version upgrade using Database Migration Service
As hopefully you all know by now, migrating your SQL database got easier this past November when Google’s Database Migration Service went GA for MySQL. If you didn’t know, migrating your SQL database to Cloud SQL is now easier! Something you might have noticed, or I’ll happily point out if you haven’t noticed, is that […]
AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative tasks […]
AWS – Private Connectivity for AWS NAT Gateway is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Private Connectivity for AWS NAT Gateway is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions enables U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by helping them to address certain regulatory and compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS Private NAT Gateway is […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda customers in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions can now provision Lambda functions with a maximum of 10,240 MB (10 GB) of memory, a more than 3x increase compared to the previous limit of 3,008 MB. With larger functions, customers can now more easily use AWS Lambda for workloads such as batch, extract, transform, […]
AWS – Athena can now write query results in Parquet, Avro, ORC and JSON formats
Amazon Athena now lets you store results in the format that best fits your analytics use case. Using Athena’s new UNLOAD statement, you can format results in your choice of Parquet, Avro, ORC, JSON or delimited text. Athena’s SQL-based interface and support for open formats are well suited for creating extract, transform, and load (ETL) pipelines […]
GCP – Beyond mainframe modernization: The art of possibilities
Mainframe modernization has been a hot topic over the past decade or so. Many people have predicted the demise of mainframe times. But the mainframe is standing tall, strong and growing. Over time, the term “modernization” itself is manifested in many ways. So to even begin the modernization conversation, we need to define what modernization […]
AWS – Introducing 79 new resource types in the CloudFormation Registry
Since our last update in March 2021, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the CloudFormation Registry to support 79 new resource types between April and July 2021 (see the complete list at the end of this post). A resource type includes schema (resource properties and handler permissions) and handlers that control API interactions with the underlying AWS […]