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GCP – Why build apps on a cloud-native database like MongoDB Atlas?
IT departments today are being challenged to adopt new and far more strategic roles within the organizations they serve. As more businesses turn to technology as a competitive differentiator, IT is being challenged to step away from its traditional focus on running infrastructure and to step up as a strategic business function—delivering software and services […]
AWS – Increased availability for AWS Certification exam online proctoring
You can now take all AWS Certification exams from home or any private space with online proctoring when you schedule with either test delivery provider, Pearson VUE or PSI. Online proctoring is available anywhere AWS Certification offers testing. For candidates in mainland China and South Korea, online proctored exams are available only via PSI. Read […]
GCP – Announcing Google Cloud Public Sector Summit, a free global digital event: Dec. 8-9
2020 has been a year of rapid change, unexpected challenges and new frontiers. In the face of this, government agencies, local leaders, and educational institutions worldwide have been challenged to reinvent their engagement with citizens, the way they accomplish their missions, and how they educate students. Despite its challenges, the pandemic has proven to be […]
AWS – Reserved outbound bandwidth now available for AWS Elemental MediaConnect
Starting today, if you have live, 24×7 video distribution workflows, you can take advantage of discounted outbound data transfer pricing using AWS Elemental MediaConnect. With discounted outbound bandwidth, you can reduce outbound data transfer costs by as much as 70% based on current pricing. With a 12-month commitment to MediaConnect, you reserve outbound bandwidth in […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream is now Generally Available
Amazon Timestream is a new time series database for IoT, edge, and operational applications that can scale to process trillions of time series events per day up to 1,000 times faster than relational databases, and at as low as 1/10th the cost. Amazon Timestream saves customers effort and expense by keeping recent data in memory […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts is now generally available, expanding object storage to on-premises environments
Amazon S3 on Outposts delivers object storage to your on-premises AWS Outposts environment to meet local data processing and data residency needs. Using the S3 APIs and features, S3 on Outposts makes it easy to store, secure, tag, retrieve, report on, and control access to the data on your Outpost. AWS Outposts is a fully […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline now Supports GitHub Enterprise Server
You can now use your GitHub Enterprise Server source repository to build, test, and deploy code changes using AWS CodePipeline. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS IoT Core Adds the Ability to Stream Time-series Data to Amazon Timestream
AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to stream time-series data from devices connected to AWS IoT Core directly to your Amazon Timestream database, without writing a single line of code. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodePipeline now Supports git clone for Source Actions
AWS CodePipeline Source Actions for GitHub.com, GitHub Enterprise Server, and Bitbucket.org now support cloning of your git repositories. With the new feature, when you create a connection to an external source provider in the Source Action, CodePipeline will clone the git repository to fetch the commit history and metadata. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QLDB Launches Index Improvements
Amazon QLDB launches index improvements to create indexes on non-empty tables. QLDB Indexes accelerate data retrieval and previously, all indexes needed to be created at the time of table creation. As customer data volumes grow, new data access patterns are required to meet business and performance requirements. Now, customers can utilize QLDB’s index improvements to […]