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AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources.
Federated queries in Amazon Athena enable users to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. The feature, which is now generally available in the us-east-1, us-west-2, and us-east-2 regions, enables customers to submit a single SQL query that scans data from multiple sources running on-premises or hosted in […]

AWS – Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
Today, Amazon Athena announced general availability of a new query engine version, Athena engine version 2. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC SDK in C now supports client metrics
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds client metrics support to its WebRTC SDK in C. Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC enables developers to build web, mobile, and IoT devices application for real-time media and data streaming. Developers can use this capability to build applications for use cases such as home security and monitoring, camera-enabled doorbells, baby […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports Column Level Security, Column Descriptions, and a new Oracle Connector
Amazon QuickSight has added a powerful new data governance feature: Column Level Security (CLS). This feature compliments the existing Row Level Security (RLS) feature and, in combination, gives authors control over who can access what data within their visualizations. CLS enables dataset owners to apply restrictions on a per column basis. This ensures that users […]

AWS – Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly
Amazon Personalize now allows you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly; without any extra cost. Dynamic filters save you time by removing the need to define all possible permutations of your business rules in advance and enable you to use your most recent information to filter recommendations. You control the recommendations […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Lightsail Containers, an easy way to run containerized applications on the cloud
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to run containerized workloads on the cloud with little-to-no prior cloud experience. With this native service, called Lightsail Containers, you can now deploy containerized applications to the cloud using the Docker images directly from your desktop or from the ones in public registries like DockerHub – with […]

GCP – It’s not DNS: Ensuring high availability in a hybrid cloud environment
Our customers have multi-faceted requirements around DNS forwarding, especially if they have multiple VPCs that connect to multiple on-prem locations. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, we recommend that customers utilize a hub-and-spoke model, which helps get around reverse routing challenges due to the usage of the Google DNS proxy range. But in […]

AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload
You can now create custom endpoints for Amazon Neptune to access your workload. Custom endpoints allow you to distribute your workload across a designated set of instances within a Neptune cluster. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing the Anthos Developer Sandbox—free with a Google account
Your colleagues in IT operations talk about needing a platform that can run a wide variety of apps: new or existing, running on Linux or Windows, long-running or serverless, capable of rapidly scaling up and down according to demand. Anthos is Google Cloud’s answer to these requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud. With Anthos, you not […]