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AWS – AWS Batch now supports Configurable Job Retries
AWS Batch now allows users to configure retry strategies based on defined exit codes. Customers can now determine whether their AWS Batch jobs retry based on specified events such as infrastructure failure or application failure. This allows customers to tightly control the actions taken on job failure – resulting in lower costs and faster throughput […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now supports modifying column compression encodings to optimize storage utilization and query performance
Amazon Redshift now allows users to modify the compression encoding of existing columns with a single statement. This new capability makes it easier to maintain the optimal compression encodings in Amazon Redshift to achieve high performance and reduce the storage utilization. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink
AWS Lambda now supports AWS PrivateLink. With this feature you can manage and invoke Lambda functions from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing your traffic to the public internet. PrivateLink provides private connectivity between your VPCs and AWS services, like Lambda, on the private AWS network. Read More for the details.
AWS – Kinesis Client Library now enables multi-stream processing
You can now process multiple Amazon Kinesis data streams with a single Kinesis Client Library (KCL) based consumer application. Previously, each KCL based application processes a single Kinesis data stream. With this new capability, you can update the list of streams at runtime for multi-stream processing in a scalable KCL application without redeploying the application. […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon CloudFront Origin Shield
Amazon CloudFront announces Origin Shield, a centralized caching layer that helps increase your cache hit ratio to reduce the load on your origin. Origin Shield also decreases your origin operating costs by collapsing requests across regions so as few as one request goes to your origin per object. You can also use Lambda@Edge with Origin […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager now allows filtering automation executions by applications or environments
You can now filter automation executions by resource groups in Systems Manager Automation. This allows you to group and view the automation executions specific to your applications or environments. Read More for the details.
GCP – New solutions to modernize your workforce
Transitioning employees to cloud-based tools—or transforming them into cloud workers—is a growing priority for many businesses. In fact, 72% of ITDMs agree that giving workers access to business apps anytime, any place, from any device is business-critical.1 Even in 2018, 77% of enterprises had at least one application or a portion of computing infrastructure in […]
AWS – Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager now support multiple simultaneous connections
Port forwarding sessions created using Session Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now support multiple simultaneous connections over the session. This improvement reduces the rendering latency and improves load times for applications that load data using multiple concurrent connections, when delivering such applications over a port forwarding session. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cognitive Services Translator — Canadian French language text translation now available
Use Translator to add Canadian French translation to your apps, products, and workflows. Read More for the details.
GCP – Improving security, compliance, and governance with cloud-based DLP data discovery
One of the more critical, but sometimes forgotten, questions related to data security is how do you find the data you need to secure. To security newcomers, this may sound contradictory; surely you have that valuable data firmly in your hands? In reality, many types of sensitive, personal and even regulated data get “misplaced” at […]