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GCP – How AlloyDB unifies OLTP and OLAP workloads for Tricent
Editor’s Note: Tricent Security Group A/S, a leader in file-sharing security, faced efficiency and performance challenges with their PostgreSQL database infrastructure. Their OLTP workloads needed to process millions of real-time updates efficiently, while their OLAP workloads needed faster query performance to handle complex analytics. Moving to AlloyDB for PostgreSQL helped transform Tricent’s database operations, resulting […]

GCP – Delfingen accelerates a cloud-first strategy with Google
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Etienne Grivelet, Chief Technology Officer for Delfingen Group, a global supplier and manufacturer for the automotive industry. As part of its digital transformation plans, Delfingen has adopted ChromeOS, Chrome Enterprise, Google Workspace, Cameyo, and Google Cloud. How can a global automotive product manufacturing company, with employees spread across borders, […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling supports final validation time for instance refresh
Starting today, you can utilize a final validation period while using EC2 Auto Scaling instance refresh. This new feature gives you time to conduct necessary validation or testing, ensuring the successful deployment of new EC2 instances to your Auto Scaling group before an instance refresh is marked successful. With an instance refresh, you can update […]

AWS – AWS announces UDP support for AWS PrivateLink and dual-stack Network Load Balancers
Today, we are launching support for the UDP protocol on AWS PrivateLink over IPv4 and IPv6, and on AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) over IPv6. Until now, AWS PrivateLink only supported TCP, while NLB supported UDP only over IPv4. This launch enables customers who use AWS PrivateLink and clients that use IPv6 to access UDP-based […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database, which helps you scale your Amazon Aurora cluster to millions of write transactions per second and manage petabytes of data while maintaining the simplicity of operating inside a single database. With this new capability, you can scale your relational database workloads on Aurora […]

AWS – Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Beginning today, Amazon Bedrock customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now access Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Haiku models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet ranks among the most intelligent in the world. With Claude 3.5 Sonnet, customers in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region can now get intelligence better than Claude 3 Opus, at […]

AWS – AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit
AWS Lambda has introduced a new getting started experience to simplify the development of Lambda-based applications using the VS Code IDE and the AWS Toolkit. This experience streamlines the code-test-deploy-debug cycle, providing a guided walkthrough that assists developers from setting up their local development environment to running their first application on the cloud and adds […]

AWS – AWS Supply Chain now offers embedded Analytics powered by Amazon Quicksight
AWS Supply Chain now includes a reporting and analytics feature powered by Amazon Quicksight that enables custom reporting and analytics and provides out of the box supply chain dashboards. Customers can access their data in the AWS Supply Chain data lake simply from the embedded interface, and use out of the box dashboards that they […]

AWS – AWS WAF is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Starting today, you can use AWS WAF in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps you protect your web application resources against common web exploits and bots that can affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. You can protect the following resource types: Amazon CloudFront distributions, […]
AWS – Three enhancements for SES Mail Manager to improve interoperability, security, and compliance
SES Mail Manager announces three new features. The first adds support for authenticated connections to ingress endpoints via TCP port 587 (email submission port). The second introduces verified customer identity enforcement when using Mail Manager SMTP relays, and enables customers to create rule conditions in which MIME headers can be searched and used for routing […]