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GCP – The surprising economics of Horizontal Pod Autoscaling tuning
The Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) is a fundamental tool for managing the scalability and efficiency of your environment, working by deploying more Pods in response to increased load. However, achieving the best price-performance with HPA requires a nuanced understanding of its settings, particularly your CPU utilization targets. The common assumption that a 50% CPU […]
GCP – How chaos testing adds extra reliability to Spanner’s fault-tolerant design
One of the secrets behind Spanner’s reliability is the team’s extensive use of chaos testing, the process of deliberately injecting faults into production-like instances of the database. Although engineers focus on testing the “happy path,” most software bugs occur when things go wrong. Given Spanner’s complex architecture and constantly evolving codebase, it is inevitable that […]
GCP – Building a Cloud Data Fusion pipeline to upload audit records generated by Cloud SQL for SQL Server to BigQuery
Introduction Cloud SQL for SQL Server offers configurable auditing, capturing events like login attempts, DDLs, and DMLs. These events are stored locally on the instance for up to 7 days and can be preserved longer in GCS buckets. Some customers want to access and analyze their Cloud SQL for SQL Server audit data in other […]
GCP – Paramount+: A streaming powerhouse with limitless entertainment
Paramount+ is a treasure trove of streaming entertainment for a global audience. With a click, swipe, or voice command, viewers have instant access to iconic films like “The Godfather” and “Top Gun”, television classics like “Star Trek” and “Survivor,” and modern hits like “Yellowstone,” “1883,” and “Halo.” In addition to its immense library of filmed […]
AWS – Amazon Cognito introduces tiered pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) usage
Amazon Cognito introduces pricing for machine-to-machine (M2M) authentication to better support continued growth and expand capabilities. There is no change to Amazon Cognito’s user based pricing (monthly active users or MAUs). Customer accounts currently using Amazon Cognito for M2M use cases will be exempt from pricing for 12 months. M2M pricing is based on the […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports RabbitMQ version 3.12
Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.12.13, which includes several fixes and performance improvements to the previous versions of RabbitMQ supported by Amazon MQ. Starting from RabbitMQ 3.12.13, all Classic Queues on Amazon MQ brokers are upgraded to Classic Queues version 2 (CQv2) automatically. All queues on RabbitMQ 3.12 now behave similarly to lazy […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports minor versions 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 16.3, 15.7, 14.12, 13.15, and 12.19. This release of RDS for PostgreSQL also includes support for pgvector 0.7.0, which lets you index vectors larger than 2,000 dimensions and adds support for scalar and binary quantization through expression indexes. The PostgreSQL community […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds pull through cache support for GitLab.com
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) now includes GitLab Container Registry as a supported upstream registry for ECR’s pull through cache feature. With today’s release, customers using GitLab’s software-as-a-subscription offering, GitLab.com, can automatically sync images from the newly supported upstream registry to their private ECR repositories. ECR customers can create a pull through cache rule that […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches SPICE capacity auto-purchase API
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of SPICE capacity auto-purchase API. Previously, customers were required to manually turn on SPICE auto-purchase via the console UI. Now with this API enhancement, QuickSight users can programmatically turn on the SPICE capacity auto-purchase, seamlessly integrating it into their adoption and migration pipeline. Once turned on, users […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, now in new regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models. Read More for the details.