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GCP – How MLB keeps fans connected to the game – one cache hit at a time
Editor’s note: Major League Baseball (MLB) delivers data in real time to millions of fans, apps, and broadcasters — tracking everything from pitch speeds to player positions. To keep pace, the Baseball Data Platform team turned to Memorystore for Valkey, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory data service. It’s helped MLB handle billions of daily requests, […]
GCP – Optimize your cloud costs using Cloud Hub Optimization and Cost Explorer
Application owners are looking for three things when they think about optimizing cloud costs: What are the most expensive resources? Which resources are costing me more this week or month? Which resources are poorly utilized? To help you answer these questions quickly and easily, we announced Cloud Hub Optimization and Cost Explorer, in private preview, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS increases maximum message payload size to 1 MiB
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) has increased the maximum message payload size from 256 KiB to 1 MiB, enabling customers to send and receive larger messages through their Amazon SQS standard and FIFO queues. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and […]
AWS – Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver accelerates performance and supports SELinux
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver now accelerates performance for repeatedly accessed data, adds support for Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) mount options, and simplifies logging and permissions management. The latest version of the Mountpoint for Amazon S3 CSI driver (v2) introduces four key capabilities. First, it adds support for caching data across multiple […]
AWS – Amazon ECR now supports 100,000 images per repository
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now supports 100,000 images per repository, up from the previous limit of 20,000. This change better aligns with your growth needs and saves you time from not having to request limit increases till 100,000 images. You still have the flexibility to request additional increases if you require more than 100,000 […]
GCP – How Cake, Vietnam’s leading digital bank, found the right mix of simplicity and security with ChromeOS and Chrome Enterprise
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Hiển Từ Thế (Jay), Chief Technology Officer for Cake Digital Bank, a prominent digital-only bank in Vietnam offering a comprehensive suite of financial services entirely through its mobile application. As a technology forward company, they chose ChromeOS to support staff with seamless deployment, ease of management, and streamlined security […]
AWS – Amazon SES introduces tenant isolation with automated reputation policies
Today, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) announces the ability to provision isolated tenants within a single SES account and apply automated reputation policies to manage email sending. With this enhancement, customers can create multiple tenants in their SES account, each with dedicated configuration sets, identities, and templates. This new feature helps customers detect and isolate […]
AWS – AWS Directory Service launches Hybrid Edition for Managed Microsoft AD
Starting today, AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory customers can extend their existing Active Directory domain into AWS with the new Hybrid Edition for AWS Managed Microsoft AD. This new capability provides customers with a managed service for their AD infrastructure extended in AWS, enabling a unified Active Directory deployment between on-premises, AWS Cloud […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Points now support tags for Attribute-Based Access Control
Amazon S3 Access Points now support tags for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). S3 Access Points simplify managing data access to your shared datasets in S3 general purpose and directory buckets. With ABAC support, you can add tags to your access points and extend your tag-based permissions to new and existing users, roles, and access points. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL now supports new minor versions 8.0.43 and 8.4.6
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 8.0.43 and 8.4.6, the latest minors released by the MySQL community. We recommend upgrading to the newer minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by […]