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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 […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing across multiple accounts
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports sharing of S3 capacity across multiple accounts within an organization using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). Multiple teams within your organization can now create and manage buckets, access points, and endpoints on S3 on Outposts. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Managed HSM Private Link
You can now use Private Link for Azure Managed HSM to protect sensitive traffic between different Azure and on-premises services. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing new AWS Wavelength Zones in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix
Today, we are announcing the availability of three new AWS Wavelength Zones on Verizon’s 5G Ultra Wideband network in Chicago, Houston, and Phoenix. Wavelength Zones are now available in 13 major US cities , including the previously announced cities of Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington […]
AWS – Optimize personalized recommendations for the business metric of your choice with Amazon Personalize
Amazon Personalize now enables you to optimize personalized recommendations for a business metric of your choice, in addition to improving relevance of recommendations for your users. You can define a business metric such as revenue, profit margin, video watch time, or any other numerical attribute of your item catalog to optimize your recommendations. Amazon Personalize automatically learns […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudWatch cross account alarms
Amazon CloudWatch announces cross account alarms, a new feature that enables customers to set alerts and take actions based on changes to metrics in other AWS accounts. Cross account alarms provide alerting based on trends in metrics in different AWS accounts and can be used in combination with existing cross account dashboards to setup operational […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Query optimization
Last week in the BigQuery reference guide, we walked through query execution and how to leverage the query plan. This week, we’re going a bit deeper – covering more advanced queries and tactical optimization techniques. Here, we’ll walk through some query concepts and describe techniques for optimizing related SQL. Filtering data From last week’s post, […]