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AWS – Amazon Elastic Block Store now supports idempotent volume creation
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) now supports idempotent creation of EBS Volumes, allowing you to safely retry volume creation without additional side effects. Idempotent creation of EBS Volumes is intended for customers that have higher level processes such as container orchestration systems or automation scripts that create EBS volumes as part of a workflow. Read […]
GCP – Introducing improved maintenance policy for Cloud Memorystore
Maintenance is a critical component of every database user experience as it ensures that your database is staying up to date with security patches, receiving feature updates, and improving performance. However, maintenance downtime can be impactful, especially when it occurs at inopportune times. We are happy to announce that Cloud Memorystore now enables you to […]
GCP – Compliance Engineering – From manual attestation to continuous compliance
Risk Management and Compliance is as important in the cloud as it is in conventional on-premises environments. To help organizations in regulated industries meet their compliance requirements, Google Cloud offers automated capabilities that ensure the effectiveness of productionalization processes. Continuous compliance in the banking industry Banks have a formidable responsibility in managing the world’s wealth, […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 10 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 10 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard to enhance customers’ cloud security posture monitoring. These controls conduct fully-automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway (APIGateway.4), Amazon CloudFront (CloudFront.5, CloudFront.6), Amazon EC2 (EC2.17, EC2.18), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS.1), Amazon Elasticsearch Service (ES.4), AWS Identity and […]
GCP – All you need to know about Datastream
With data volumes constantly growing, many companies find it difficult to use data effectively and gain insights from it. Often these organizations are burdened with cumbersome and difficult-to-maintain data architectures. One way that companies are addressing this challenge is with change streaming: the movement of data changes as they happen from a source (typically a […]
GCP – Building with Looker made easier with the Extension Framework
Our goal is to continue to improve our platform functionalities, and find new ways to empower Looker developers to build data experiences much faster and at a lower upfront cost. We’ve heard the developer community feedback and we’re excited to have announced the general availability of the Looker Extension Framework. The Extension Framework is a fully […]
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now automatically optimizes client connections made through AWS PrivateLink to improve availability and read/write throughput
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now automatically optimizes client connections made through AWS PrivateLink to improve availability and read/write throughput. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels makes it easy for customers to learn how to train machine learning models by providing tutorial videos, and sample datasets
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels introduces a simplified on-boarding experience with the ability to explore images, labels, and datasets by one-click creation of example projects. Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels provides out of the box video tutorials, and example projects with hundreds of images for single-class classification, multi-class classification, object detection, and logo detection. Read More for […]
AWS – The Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Java 2.x is now available
The Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) SDK for Java 2.x is now available and is compatible with the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. You can build Java applications with accelerated access to DynamoDB and benefit from non-blocking I/O and other features of the latest AWS SDK for Java. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instance sizes
We are excited to announce the availability of smaller sized Amazon EC2 G4ad instances that deliver up to 40% better price performance over comparable GPU-based instances for graphics intensive applications such as virtual workstations and game streaming. Like the other G4ad instances, these new sizes are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation […]