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AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Tag-Based Access Control
Amazon ElastiCache now supports tag-based access control and adding tags to additional cluster resources. By using tags for access control, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users, groups, and roles get access only to the Amazon ElastiCache resources with matching tags. This provides you the capability to scale by reducing the number of distinct […]
AWS – Amplify iOS now available via Swift Package Manager (SPM)
AWS Amplify iOS can now be installed through the Swift Package Manager. iOS developers can interface with AWS services through Amplify iOS, which is a use case based client library. Developers have been importing Amplify iOS through dependency management tools like CocoaPods. With Swift 3.0, Apple introduced a native package management tool called Swift Package […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.8.11
You can now launch RabbitMQ 3.8.11 brokers on Amazon MQ. This patch update to RabbitMQ contains several fixes and new features compared to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.6. Read More for the details.
AWS – You can now deploy CloudFormation Stacks concurrently across multiple AWS regions using AWS CloudFormation StackSets
AWS CloudFormation StackSets announces the ability to deploy CloudFormation Stacks to multiple AWS regions in parallel. This reduces the overall stack set provisioning times and provides a performance improvement when using StackSets. StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a […]
AWS – AWS Backup now supports cost allocation tags for Amazon EFS Backups
AWS Backup now enables you to use cost allocation tags for Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) backups within AWS Billing and Cost Management. With cost allocation tags, you can get better transparency and visibility into your Amazon EFS backup costs. For example, you can allocate your Amazon EFS backup costs to different departments (e.g., […]
Azure – Public preview: Start VM on connect feature for Windows Virtual Desktop
You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects. Read More for the details.
GCP – New flexibility; run your Dataprep jobs with BigQuery or Dataflow
Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta is Google Cloud’s intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analytics and machine learning. Due to its serverless architecture, Dataprep does not need any infrastructure to deploy or manage, and is fully scalable. Designed and built through a partnership between Google and Trifacta – […]
GCP – Creating a serverless pipeline for real-time market data
Editor’s note: This is the second part in our special series on working with market data in Google Cloud. This post highlights how we leveraged serverless components to build a flexible data ingestion pipeline. Check out the first post on visualizing real-time market data in the cloud. Capital markets firms must rapidly extract insights from […]
AWS – Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI
The data management experience in the AWS Amplify Admin UI is now generally available with new capabilities for seed data generation, data sorting, and data filtering. Launched at re:Invent 2020, the Amplify Admin UI is an externally hosted console for frontend teams to visually create an app backend and manage the app content and users. […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels
AWS announces a new feature of AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store that supports the removal of a label associated with a parameter, to enable customers to reorganize Parameter Store parameters with new labels. Read More for the details.