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AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now supports 5000 requests per second for the GetSecretValue API operation
AWS Secrets Manager now supports higher request rates for the GetSecretValue API operation of up to 5000 requests per second. This increased API limit will be applied to your accounts automatically. No further action required on your end. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Remote Reindex
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now offers support for Remote Reindex, enabling you to migrate data from a remote cluster into Amazon Elasticsearch Service. With this feature, you can simply copy data from one cluster to another, making it easier to migrate from legacy versions of Elasticsearch. Remote Reindex also supports migrating indexes from self-managed Elasticsearch onto […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2020 Oracle Patch Set Updates (PSU) and Release Updates (RU), and allows setting database system events
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the October 2020 Patch Set Updates (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1, and the October 2020 Release Update (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. October 2020 PSU for Oracle Database 11.2 will be launched soon. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service announces support for Elasticsearch version 7.9
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports open source Elasticsearch 7.9 and its corresponding version of Kibana. This minor release includes bug fixes and enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA)
Amazon Managed Workflows is a new managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in the cloud at scale. Apache Airflow is an open source tool used to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor sequences of processes and tasks referred to as “workflows”. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway now supports IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 on Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now supports IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 on Tape Gateway, enabling you to backup and archive data from IBM Spectrum Protect to AWS without changing your backup workflows. With this announcement, Tape Gateway supports IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 7.6 or later, or SUSE Linux Enterprise […]
AWS – Amazon Elasticsearch Service revamps Kibana security user interface while integrating with other features
Amazon Elasticsearch Service has introduced several security enhancements to the fine-grained access control feature that include a revamped and improved security workflow in Kibana, and integration with Open Distro for Elasticsearch Alerting and Anomaly Detection features. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now enables you to grow storage on your file systems with the click of a button
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides high-performance shared storage, now enables you to increase the storage capacity of your file systems with the click of a button, providing you the flexibility to easily respond to your evolving storage needs by increasing file system size in a matter of minutes. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports batch windows of up to 5 minutes for functions with Amazon SQS as an event source
AWS Lambda now allows customers using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as an event source to define a wait period, called MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds, to allow messages to accumulate in their SQS queue before invoking a Lambda function. In addition to Batch Size, this is a second option to send records in batches, to reduce the number of […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports workload partitioning to further improve the reliability of Spark applications
Errors in Spark applications commonly arise from inefficient Spark scripts, distributed in-memory execution of large-scale transformations, and dataset abnormalities. AWS Glue workload partitioning is the newest offering from AWS Glue to address these issues and improve the reliability of Spark applications and consistency of run-time. Workload partitioning enables you to specify how much data to […]