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AWS – Announcing two new on-demand digital courses for Game Tech
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce two new courses for Game Tech: Using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ for Game Servers and Game Server Hosting with Amazon EC2. These digital courses are designed for game developers who want to host their game servers on AWS. Each course will help you make a decision about using […]
GCP – How one telecom reimagined IT to better serve customers with more personalized content
Telecommunications providers are under a lot of pressure. Customers increasingly expect one provider to meet all their telephony, digital entertainment, and broadband needs. And as the choice of providers increases and switching costs decrease, it’s harder than ever to create and maintain loyalty. At UPC Polska, we know this challenge all too well. As a […]
Azure – ADLS Gen2 Hierarchical Namespace Quick Query Name and Price Changes
Effective December 1, 2020, the price and name of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Hierarchical Namespace Quick Query will change. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup Price and Meter ID Change – ZA North and ZA West regions of South Africa
Effective 12/01/2020, the price and meter IDs of Azure Backup will change. Read More for the details.
GCP – IKEA: Creating a more affordable, accessible and sustainable future with help from the cloud
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Barbara Martin Coppola, Chief Digital Officer at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group). Barbara chats about how cloud technologies helped IKEA respond to COVID-19, and what new connected customer experiences lie ahead. A better home creates a better life We are here to create a better everyday life for many people […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for Lambda UDFs and enables tokenization
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports Lambda user-defined functions (UDFs) enabling you to use an AWS Lambda function as a UDF in Amazon Redshift. This functionality enables you to write custom extensions for your SQL query to achieve tighter integration with other services or third-party products. For example, you can write Lambda […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow supports importing custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics to Amazon S3
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that enables customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and cloud applications, now allows you to import custom dimensions and metrics from Google Analytics into Amazon S3. You can specify the custom dimensions and metrics that you want to import while mapping source fields to the destination […]
Azure – New VM series supported by Azure Batch
An expanded selection of VMs can be used with Azure Batch, providing access to newer Azure VM series. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto 8u262, 11.0.8, 15.0.1 quarterly updates are now available.
Today Amazon announced quarterly updates for Amazon Corretto 8, Amazon Corretto 11, and Amazon Corretto 15. This release also includes Corretto 8 support for TLS1.3, Corretto 11 ARM64 updates and Corretto 11 general availability of the Shenandoah GC (Garbage Collector). Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Shield now provides global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers
AWS Shield now global and per-account event summaries to all AWS customers. These summaries provide you an overview of all events detected by AWS Shield, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other volumetric anomalies, for each of your accounts and for all events detected and mitigated on AWS. Read More for the […]