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GCP – 3 Ways to optimize Cloud Run response times
Serverless containerization has taken the world by storm as it gives developers a way to deploy their stateless microservices without a heavy burden of infrastructure management. Cloud Run abstracts all infrastructure management. You hand over a container image with a web server and stateless logic, and specify a combination of memory/CPU and allowed concurrency. Cloud […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) in awsvpc networking mode
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports native Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for Amazon ECS tasks using task networking (awsvpc networking mode). Previously, IPv6 was only supported in host networking mode. With this capability, tasks using awsvpc networking mode can communicate with other endpoints in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) and internet in dual-stack […]
AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector launches ability to delete additional resource types in AWS Console and SDK
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud. You can now delete Amazon Fraud Detector models, event types, entity types, outcomes, labels, and variables. You can also remove an imported AWS SageMaker model from […]
AWS – Amazon Translate allows user to specify a part of the text to not be translated – Do Not Translate
Amazon Translate – a fully managed neural machine translation service that delivers high-quality, and affordable language translation in fifty-five languages – is now enabling you to tag content so that it isn’t translate. Now, customer can wrap the text that need not be translated in a HTML element span and set translate attribute to “no”. […]
AWS – IP Multicast on AWS Transit Gateway is now available in major AWS regions world wide
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet protocol (IP) multicast in AWS regions worldwide namely: US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), EU (Ireland), EU (London), EU (Stockholm), EU (Paris), EU (Milano), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and South Africa (Cape Town). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces support for Event Replay
Amazon EventBridge now supports Event Replay, which makes event-driven applications more durable and extensible by providing developers an easy way to replay past events. Event replay enables developers using Amazon EventBridge to build applications with the confidence that they can quickly recover from errors in their code, and the ability to easily extend their existing […]
AWS – Encrypt your Amazon DynamoDB global tables by using your own encryption keys
With Amazon DynamoDB global tables, you can give massively scaled, global applications local access to DynamoDB tables for fast read and write performance. All of your data in DynamoDB is encrypted by default using the AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Starting today, you can now choose a customer managed key for your global tables, giving […]
GCP – The Cloud trust paradox: To trust cloud computing more, you need the ability to trust it less
At their core, many cloud security and, in fact, cloud computing discussions ultimately distill to trust. This concept of trust is much bigger than cyber security, and even bigger than a triad of security, privacy, and compliance. For example, trust may involve geopolitical matters focused on data residency and data sovereignty. At the same time, […]
AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS launches features focused on configuration and metrics
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced features to improve configuration and metrics of containers: environment files, secret versions and JSON keys, granular network metrics, and more metadata. Read More for the details.
AWS – Savings Plans Alerts now available in AWS Cost Management
Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model that offers savings of up to 72% on your Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, and Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate type usage, in exchange for a commitment to a consistent amount of compute usage (measured in $/hour) for a 1 or 3 year term. When you purchase a Savings […]