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GCP – Elevate your FinOps strategy: Optimize with FinOps hub, now GA
In today’s cloud-driven world, optimization isn’t an option – it’s your competitive advantage. When you streamline cloud costs, you free up resources that you can reinvest into innovation, research and development, accelerating new product development, or fueling market expansion. But let’s get real: optimizing cloud environments at scale can be overwhelming. Managing large datasets, navigating […]
GCP – No work items left unturned: How Dataflow mitigates stragglers
Dataflow, Google Cloud’s fully managed streaming analytics service, has a proud tradition of getting the job done (pun intended) with completeness and with precision. Practically speaking, that means leaving no shard behind and doing things exactly once. Today, we are excited to announce three new features: straggler detection, hot key detection, and slow worker auto-mitigation. […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Core now supports Windows Server bundles
Amazon WorkSpaces Core now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022. With these bundles, customers and partners can take advantage of the latest license included Windows Server instances. This new feature will allow customers to minimize getting started time by providing staged images. In addition, this feature enables customers and […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon DocumentDB zero-ETL integration with Amazon OpenSearch Service provides customers advanced search capabilities, such as fuzzy search, cross-collection search and multilingual search, on their Amazon DocumentDB documents using the OpenSearch API. With a few clicks in the AWS Console, customers can now seamlessly synchronize their data from Amazon DocumentDB to Amazon OpenSearch Service, eliminating the […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of alert manager and rules configuration
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports inline editing of rules and alert manager configuration directly from the AWS console. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation open-source project […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Redshift Serverless in the South America (São Paulo) AWS region
Amazon Redshift Serverless, which allows you to run and scale analytics without having to provision and manage data warehouse clusters, is now generally available in additional AWS region South America (São Paulo). With Amazon Redshift Serverless, all users including data analysts, developers, and data scientists, can use Amazon Redshift to get insights from data in […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA now available in additional Regions
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in five new AWS Regions: Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provision load balancers without IPv4s for clients that can connect using just IPv6s. To connect, clients can resolve AAAA DNS records that are assigned to ALB. The ALB is still dual stack for communication between the load balancer and targets. With this new capability, you have the […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports creating rules for monitoring and alerting on Flow metrics
You can now configure rules to automatically create a task, send an email, or generate an Amazon Eventbridge event whenever a Flows and Flow Modules metrics breaches the threshold you define. For example, you can create a rule to assign a task to a contact center administrator whenever the dropped rate (i.e. percentage of contacts that […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion launches new user interface for easy blueprint discovery
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now offers a new user interface that enables searching for blueprints using full-text search in the AWS Console, helping you easily discover all the sources that you can ingest data from into Amazon OpenSearch Service. Blueprints are pre-filled OpenSearch Ingestion configuration files that help you quickly get started with ingesting data from […]