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AWS – Amazon Lex announces built-in search intent to enable Amazon Kendra integration
Amazon Lex now supports a built-in search intent making it easier to query an Amazon Kendra index. Previously, you had to write Lambda function code and configure it in Amazon Lex bot to extract information from Amazon Kendra. Starting today, you can add a search intent to your Amazon Lex bot to get the answers […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports management of diagnostic data with Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (ADRCI) utility
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the management of diagnostic data with the Oracle Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter (ADRCI) utility. If you have a support request, you can use the Amazon RDS package rdsadmin.rdsadmin_adrci_util to create the packages for specific incidents or problems to deliver them to Oracle Support. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Storage account failover is now generally available
Customer-initiated Storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead of waiting for Microsoft to do so. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DataSync can now transfer data to and from AWS Snowcone
AWS DataSync now supports transferring files to and from AWS Snowcone, the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, ruggedized, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. The DataSync agent comes pre-installed on the […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Snowcone – a small, portable, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device
AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure – small and light enough to fit in a backpack, and able to withstand harsh environments. Customers use Snowcone to deploy applications at the edge, and to collect data, process it […]
AWS – New on Coursera: Digital course on building Amazon DynamoDB-friendly apps
AWS Training and Certification has launched Amazon DynamoDB: Building NoSQL Database–Driven Applications, a self-paced, digital course now available on Coursera. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon API Gateway allows subprotocols on a WebSocket API connection
While building a WebSocket API with Amazon API Gateway, you can now send back Sec-WebSocket-Protocol field as part of the response from $connect route. This means clients can now request specific subprotocols while connecting to your WebSocket API. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Corretto for Alpine Linux now in preview
Amazon Corretto, a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK, is now in preview for Alpine Linux. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing API management for services that use Envoy
Among forward-looking software developers, Envoy has become ubiquitous as a high-performance pluggable proxy, providing improved networking and observability capability for increased services traffic. Built on the learnings of HAProxy and nginx, Envoy is now an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project, and has many fans—including among users of our Apigee API management platform. To help […]
GCP – Setting up advanced network threat detection with Packet Mirroring
When you’re trying to detect—or thwart—an attack, the network can be a good line of defense: attackers could compromise a VM and you could lose access to endpoint data, but you likely still have access to network data. An effective threat detection strategy is to use network data, logs, and endpoint data to gain visibility […]