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AWS – Amazon EMR introduces instance fleets to help lower cost and improve cluster provisioning in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon EMR now supports instance fleets: a new way to provision clusters in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Instead of specifying an Amazon EC2 availability zone for your Amazon EMR cluster and an Amazon EC2 instance type for an Amazon EMR instance group, you can now provide a list of availability zones and instances, and Amazon […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Southeast Asia region
The new Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Southeast Asia (Singapore). This update is in addition to the existing availability in US East, US West, West Europe, Australia, Japan East, UK South, Canada Central, North US, and North Europe (Dublin) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew adds binning, skewness, binarization, and transpose transformations for pre-processing data for machine learning and analytics
AWS Glue DataBrew adds four new visual transformations – Binning, Skewness, Binarization, and Transpose helping data analysts and data scientists leverage these transformations without writing any code. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C now supports over-the-air update, AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and multiple shadows for a single IoT device
The over-the-air update (OTA), AWS IoT Device Defender custom metrics, and AWS IoT Device Shadow named shadow features are now generally available in AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) version 202103.00. With this release, developers can use the C-SDK libraries to update firmware, manage device fleets, monitor fleet metrics, and create multiple shadows […]
GCP – Introducing Apache Spark Structured Streaming connector for Pub/Sub Lite
Today we’re excited to announce the release of an open source connector to read streams of messages from Pub/Sub Lite into Apache Spark. Pub/Sub Lite is a scalable, managed messaging service for Spark users on GCP who are looking for an exceptionally low-cost ingestion solution. The connector allows you to use Pub/Sub Lite as a […]
GCP – How to use Packet Mirroring for IDS in different VPC designs
When migrating from on-premises to the cloud, many Google Cloud customers want scalable solutions to detect and alert on higher-layer network anomalies, keeping the same level of network visibility they have on-prem. The answer may be to combine Packet Mirroring with an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) such as the open-source Suricata, or some other preferred […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation now supports Amazon S3 on Outposts
You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to create and manage Amazon S3 on Outposts resources, allowing you to create buckets, endpoints and access points. Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs. Using Amazon S3 APIs and features, Amazon S3 […]
GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting PacketFabric
March is Women’s History Month – a time for us to come together and celebrate women-led startups and the amazing work they are doing in the tech industry. Our first of four features highlights the founders of PacketFabric—Jezzibell Gilmore and Anna Claiborne—and how they utilized Google Cloud to build their telecommunications startup. Our rapidly-growing global […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces support for API Destinations
Amazon EventBridge now supports API Destinations, a simple and reliable way for customers to send events to any HTTP API, such as self-managed or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, allowing customers to easily extend their existing applications without writing code. Authorization is built in so customers don’t have to write or manage additional code to authorize their […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds tooling support for YAML
AWS Step Functions now supports YAML state machine definitions within the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and in AWS CloudFormation, making it possible to define workflows in the same language as your infrastructure as code. Read More for the details.