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AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports the scheduling of SQL queries by integrating with Amazon EventBridge
Amazon Redshift now allows you to schedule your SQL queries for executions in recurring schedules and enables you to build event-driven by integrating with Amazon EventBridge. You can now schedule time sensitive or long running queries, loading or unloading your data, or refreshing your materialized views on a regular schedule. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SNS introduces First-in-First-out (FIFO) topics with strict ordering and deduplication of messages
You can now use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) FIFO topics, in combination with Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) FIFO queues, to build applications that require messages to be sent and processed in a strict sequence and without duplicates. SNS FIFO is intended for customer use cases where it is critical to maintain […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh supports cross account sharing of ACM Private Certificate Authority
In August 2020, Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) launched a feature to share Certificate Authorities (CA) between AWS accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM). With today’s launch, App Mesh customers will be able to use a certificate authority shared with their AWS account while configuring TLS between services in their mesh. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS App Mesh increases default limits on several resources
AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to standardize how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and enables options to tune for high-availability of your applications. App Mesh has now increased the default limits for a set of resources – virtual nodes, and virtual gateways. These limit increases make it […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports managed disaster recovery (DR) with Oracle Data Guard physical standby database
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle supports the creation of Oracle Data Guard physical standby DB instances which run in mount mode, which fully manage the configuration of Oracle Data Guard, and asynchronously replicates data over secured network connections between a primary DB instance and its physical standby mounted DB replicas. Amazon […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas
AWS CloudFormation now supports increased limits on five service quotas – template size, resources, parameters, mappings, and outputs. The maximum size of a template that can be passed in an S3 Object is now 1MB (previously 450KB). The new per template limits for the maximum number of resources is 500 (previously 200), parameters is 200 […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds a smaller instance size to the General Purpose instance family
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds a new instance size to the General Purpose instance family. This new instance size, stream.standard.small, offers 1 vCPU and 2 GiB of memory. It is ideally suited for streaming lightweight, non-graphics applications such as browsers for secure web browsing and bastion host administration tools, and applications that are not resource […]
GCP – A giant list of Google Cloud resources
The growth of Google Cloud has been staggering. If you’re a technical person that is trying to get plugged in, it can be hard tracking down all of the available online resources. I decided to invest some time in building you a comprehensive list. Even I was surprised at how long this list became by […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions now supports Amazon Athena service integration
AWS Step Functions is now integrated with Amazon Athena, an interactive query service, allowing you to build workflows that queries data on your S3 data lake. AWS Step Functions support built-in error handling, parameter passing, recommended security settings, and state management, reducing the amount of code you have to write and maintain. Read More for […]
Azure – Change in verification code SMS content
The verification code SMS content will remove "MSG & DATA RATES MAY APPLY" by early November. Read More for the details.