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AWS – AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can now read from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in a different AWS account than the one running the AWS Glue job. This feature allows you to run your ETL jobs from the consumer account rather than the data producer account, keeping all ETL activity in one location and simplifying […]
AWS – New instructor-led course: Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS
We are excited to introduce Developing Serverless Solutions on AWS, an instructor-led course that promotes developer productivity and agile application development. This three-day, intermediate course covers how to build, secure, deploy, and manage modern serverless applications. The course includes lectures, demonstrations, group discussions, exercises, six hands-on labs, and a quiz to check your knowledge. Read […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaLive now supports HTML 5 motion graphics overlay
Today, we are excited to announce HTML5-based motion graphics capabilities for AWS Elemental MediaLive channels. With an HTML5 source, you can add rich graphics directly onto your MediaLive channel including lower thirds, scrolling text, scoreboards, or full-screen graphics. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Monitor container insights support for Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes extension model
Azure Monitor for Containers is updating to use the Arc Extension Model for Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Arc. This support is currently in public preview. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Retail & Consumer Goods Summit: The Future of Retail
The way consumers make their everyday decisions is evolving, as digital ways of working, shopping and communicating have become the new normal. So now it’s more important than ever for companies in the retail sector to prioritise an insights-driven technology strategy and understand what’s truly important for their customers. Through its partnerships with some of […]
GCP – IDC: A multicloud strategy can mitigate regulatory, business risks
In recent years, cloud has become an important driver for innovation, enhancing security and operational resilience, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated the trend. But cloud adoption has been slower in regulated sectors including government agencies and financial institutions, due to the complexity of their legacy systems, cultural perceptions, and certain compliance challenges. In […]
GCP – OpenX is serving over 150 billion ad requests per day with cloud databases
Editor’s note: When ad tech provider OpenX was migrating to Google Cloud, they found a scalable, dependable and cost-effective solution in Bigtable and Memorystore for Memcached. Here’s how—and why—they made the move. Running one of the industry’s largest independent ad exchanges, OpenX developed an integrated platform that combines ad server data and a real-time bidding […]
GCP – Introducing request priorities for Cloud Spanner APIs
Today we’re happy to announce that you can now specify request priorities for some Cloud Spanner APIs. By assigning a HIGH, MEDIUM, or LOW priority to a specific request, you can now convey the relative importance of workloads, to better align resource usage with performance objectives. Internally, Cloud Spanner uses priorities to differentiate which workloads […]
AWS – Amazon Macie now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Amazon Macie is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. You can now discover sensitive data stored in this region to help protect your AWS workloads and data in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Run Command now displays more logs and enables log download from the console
Run Command, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now displays up to 24,000 characters of the output log of a Run Command invocation from the console. This is an increase from the 2,500 characters available in the console before this enhancement. Additionally, you can now view the output and error logs separately, and you can […]