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AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now available in the Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in the Canada West (Calgary) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB introduces configurable maximum throughput for On-demand tables
Amazon DynamoDB on-demand is a serverless, pay-per-request billing option that can serve thousands of requests per second without capacity planning. Previously, the on-demand request rate was only limited by the default throughput quota (40K read request units and 40K write request units), which uniformly applied to all tables within the account, and could not be […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower is now available in AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Control Tower in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) Region. With this launch, AWS Control Tower is available in 29 AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. AWS Control Tower offers the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment. It simplifies AWS experiences by […]
AWS – IP prefix visibility on Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor console
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, an internet traffic monitoring service for AWS applications that gives you a global view of traffic patterns and health events, now displays IPv4 prefixes in its console dashboard. Using this data in Internet Monitor, you can get more details about your application traffic and health events. For example, you can do […]
GCP – Simplifying data modeling and schema generation in BigQuery using multi-modal LLMs
The intricate hierarchical data structures in data warehouses and lakes sourced from diverse origins can make data modeling a protracted and error-prone process. To quickly adapt and create data models that meet evolving business requirements without having to rework them excessively, you need data models that are flexible, modular and adaptable enough to accommodate many […]
GCP – Uncomplicating the complex: How Spanner simplifies microservices-based architectures
In the realm of modern application design, developers have a range of choices available to them for crafting architectures that are not only simple, but also scalable, performant and resilient. Container platforms like Kubernetes (k8s) offer users the ability to seamlessly adjust node and pod specifications, so that services can scale. This scalability does not […]
GCP – Scalable multi-tenancy management with Config Sync and team scopes
Ensuring application and service teams have the resources they need is crucial for platform administrators. Fleet team management features in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) make this easier, allowing each team to function as a separate “tenant” within a fleet. In conjunction with Config Sync, a GitOps service in GKE, platform administrators can streamline resource management […]
GCP – Making API calls exactly once when using Workflows
Introduction One challenge with any distributed system, including Workflows, is ensuring that requests sent from one service to another are processed exactly once, when needed; for example, when placing a customer order in a shipping queue, withdrawing funds from a bank account, or processing a payment. In this blog post, we’ll provide an example of […]
AWS – Announcing automated 997 and TA1 acknowledgements for AWS B2B Data Interchange
AWS B2B Data Interchange now automatically generates 997 functional acknowledgements and TA1 interchange acknowledgements in response to all relevant inbound X12 electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions. These acknowledgements are used to confirm receipt of individual transactions and to report errors. With this launch, you can now automate delivery of 997 and TA1 acknowledgements to trading […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region to easily build and scale generative AI applications using a variety of foundation models (FMs) as well as powerful tools to build generative AI applications. Read More for the details.