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GCP – OpenX is serving over 150 billion ad requests per day with cloud databases
Editor’s note: When ad tech provider OpenX was migrating to Google Cloud, they found a scalable, dependable and cost-effective solution in Bigtable and Memorystore for Memcached. Here’s how—and why—they made the move. Running one of the industry’s largest independent ad exchanges, OpenX developed an integrated platform that combines ad server data and a real-time bidding […]
GCP – Introducing request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs
Today we’re happy to announce that you can now specify request priorities for some Cloud Spanner APIs. By assigning a HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW priority to a specific request, you can now convey the relative importance of workloads, to better align resource usage with performance objectives. Internally, Cloud Spanner uses priorities to differentiate which workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Macie now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Macie is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now discover sensitive data stored in this region to help protect your AWS workloads and data in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console
Run Command, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now displays up to 24,000 characters of the output log of a Run Command invocation from the console. This is an increase from the 2,500 characters available in the console before this enhancement. Additionally, you can now view the output and error logs separately, and you can […]
GCP – Have budget notifications come to your favorite comms channels
TL;DR – Rather than wait for budget alert emails, you can use programmatic budget notifications to send budget updates to your favorite comms channels, like Slack (as well as anything else you can code). Even more options for visibility with Budgets fits well into the inform phase of the FinOps lifecycle The last post introduced […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Design and Build Applications at Speed with DAPx
Design and Build Applications at Speed with DAPx is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Version 1, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Design and Build Applications at Speed with DAPx delivers an AWS cloud digital solution bespoke to customer requirements that follows AWS best practices to support your digital presence […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces now supports smart cards with the WorkSpaces macOS client application
Starting today, you can use the Amazon WorkSpaces macOS client application with Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards. Smart card support is available on WorkSpaces using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP). WSP is a cloud-native streaming protocol that enables a consistent user experience when your end users are accessing their […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces webcam support now Generally Available
Starting today, Amazon WorkSpaces supports real-time audio-video (AV) by seamlessly redirecting local webcam video input to WorkSpaces desktops. With webcam support, you can make video conferencing and other streaming applications available to your users, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Your users can collaborate by using familiar video conferencing applications without […]
AWS – Amazon MQ is now available in the Japan (Osaka) region
Amazon MQ is now available in a total of 20 regions, with the addition of the Japan (Osaka) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – New options to trigger Amazon SageMaker Pipeline executions
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built, continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), is now supported as a target for routing events in Amazon EventBridge. This enables customers to trigger the execution of the Amazon SageMaker model building pipeline based on any event in their event bus or on a schedule […]