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GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator locally
Welcome to the second part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. Today, we will learn about running the Cloud Spanner emulator locally and containerizing + deploying the backend […]
Azure – Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dynamic instance type selection for Elastic Beanstalk’s environments. This means Elastic Beanstalk will automatically fetch all compatible instance types for you to run a variety of applications. With dynamic instance type, you can choose the best suited instance type to optimize your application’s performance. For example, if you have machine […]
AWS – Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
Amazon Detective expands security investigation support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and DNS-related findings on Amazon GuardDuty, providing full coverage of all detections from GuardDuty. Along with this, Detective now makes it even easier for a security analyst to investigate entities and behaviors using a revamped user experience. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface so you can personalize the chat customer experience. Contact attributes include relevant metadata associated with the contact such as customer ID, loyalty status, or even context about the webpage the customer was on when they started the chat. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Cross-Account Data Sharing is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live and transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account is already available in AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different […]
AWS – AWS announces General Availability of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in and AWS CloudFormation Templates for Unity
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the Amazon GameLift Plug-in for Unity, making it easier to access GameLift resources and integrate GameLift into your Unity game. Trusted by some of the most successful game companies in the world like Ubisoft and Gungho, GameLift deploys, operates, and scales dedicated servers for […]
GCP – Introducing the new Cloud Storage trigger in Eventarc
Eventarc now supports a new Cloud Storage trigger to receive events from Cloud Storage buckets! Wait a minute. Didn’t Eventarc already support receiving Cloud Storage events? You’re absolutely right! Eventarc has long supported Cloud Storage events via the Cloud Audit Logs trigger. However, the new Cloud Storage trigger has a number of advantages and it’s […]
AWS – Now authenticate Amazon EMR Studio users using IAM-based authentication or IAM Federation, in addition to AWS Single Sign-On
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data engineering and data science applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are introducing additional authentication options with EMR Studio. Before this release, to login to EMR Studio, […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in three new regions: Norway East, UAE North, and Germany West Central
Reduce spending by storing cold data to Azure Archive Storage, now in new regions. Read More for the details.