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AWS – Amazon Redshift announces generally availability for data sharing with data lake tables
Amazon Redshift’s Data Sharing of data lake tables is now generally available, offering a secure and convenient way to share live data lake tables across different Amazon Redshift warehouses. Data Sharing of data lake tables in the AWS Glue Data Catalog provides live access to the data, ensuring that you always see the most up-to-date […]

GCP – BigQuery tables for Apache Iceberg: optimized storage for the open lakehouse
For several years, BigQuery native tables have supported enterprise-level data management capabilities such as ACID transactions, streaming ingestion, and automatic storage optimizations. Many BigQuery customers store data in data lakes using open-source file formats such as Apache Parquet and table formats such as Apache Iceberg. In 2022, we launched BigLake tables to allow customers to […]

GCP – How Google Cloud supports telecom security and compliance
Operating a telecommunications network is more than just connecting phone calls, or helping people share funny videos online. Telecom networks are critical components of our society’s infrastructure. Telecom operators face a wide array of risks to the critical communication services they provide and the sensitive data they protect, from network outages, to criminally-motivated ransomware attacks, […]

GCP – GKE and the dreaded IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED error: Understanding the culprit
If you leverage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) within your Google Cloud environment, you’ve likely encountered the confidence-shattering “IP_SPACE_EXHAUSTED” error. It’s a common scenario: you’re convinced your IP address planning is flawless, your subnet design is future-proof, and then suddenly, your GKE cluster unexpectedly hits a scaling roadblock. You start to question your subnetting skills. How […]

GCP – Building a real-time analytics platform using BigQuery and Bigtable
When developing a real-time architecture, there are two fundamental questions that you need to ask yourself in order to make the right technology choice: Freshness – how fast does the data need to be available? Query latency – how fast do you need to be able to retrieve the data once it is available? For […]

GCP – Gain control of your Google Cloud costs: Introducing the Cost Attribution Solution
As your Google Cloud usage expands, managing and understanding your cloud costs can become increasingly complex. As you drive adoption of cloud FinOps in your organization, identifying exactly which teams, projects, or services are driving your expenses is essential. That’s why we’re excited to introduce the Google Cloud Cost Attribution Solution. This comprehensive suite of […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift introduces query identifiers for improved query performance monitoring
Amazon Redshift introduces a unique identifier assigned to SQL queries, which lets you effectively track query performance over time and identify recurring patterns in resource-intensive queries. This new feature, called a ‘query hash’, uniquely identifies SQL queries based on their textual representation and predicate values. Query hash is a unique query signature that is generated […]

AWS – Streamline automation of policy management workflows with service reference information
We now offer service reference information to streamline automation of policy management workflows, helping you to retrieve available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. Whether you are a security administrator establishing guardrails for workloads or a developer ensuring appropriate access to applications, you can now more easily identify the available actions for AWS services. […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory now available to purchase in UK
Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client inventory is now available to purchase in UK on Amazon Business. Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client is a low-cost end-user device that helps organizations reduce overall virtual desktop costs, strengthen security posture, and simplify end-user deployment. End users can set up WorkSpaces Thin Client in minutes using an on-device guided deployment experience […]
AWS – Four new synthetic generative voices for Amazon Polly
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of four highly expressive Amazon Polly voices speaking in American and Australian English. Amazon Polly is a managed service that turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and to build speech-enabled products depending on your business needs. The generative engine is […]