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GCP – How PUMA leverages built-in intelligence with BigQuery for greater customer engagement
Leveraging first-party data, and data quality in general, are major priorities for online retailers. While first-party data certainly comes with challenges, it also offers a great opportunity to increase transparency, redefine customer interactions, and create more meaningful user experiences. Here at PUMA, we’re already taking steps to seize the opportunities presented by signal loss as […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion adds support for ingesting data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest records from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, enabling you to seamlessly index streaming data in Amazon OpenSearch Service managed clusters or serverless collections without the need for any third-party data connectors. With this integration, you can now use Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion to perform near- real-time aggregations, sampling and […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams launches CloudFormation support for resource policies
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now provides AWS CloudFormation supports for managing resource policies for data streams and consumers. You can use CloudFormation templates to programmatically deploy resource policies in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way, reducing the risk of human error from manual configuration. Kinesis Data Streams allows users to capture, process, and store data […]
AWS – Get x-ray vision into AWS CloudFormation deployments with a timeline view
AWS CloudFormation now offers a capability called deployment timeline view that allows customers to monitor and visualize the sequence of actions CloudFormation takes in a stack operation. This capability provides visibility into the ordering and duration of resource provisioning actions for a stack operation. This empowers developers to optimize their CloudFormation templates and speed up […]
AWS – AWS IAM Identity Center now supports search by permission set name
Today, AWS IAM Identity Center announced support for permission set search, enabling you to filter existing permission sets based on their names. This simplifies managing access to AWS accounts via IAM Identity Center, allowing you to use any substring in the permission set name to quickly lookup a permission set. IAM Identity Center is where […]
AWS – Amazon Bedrock now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Beginning today, customers can use Amazon Bedrock in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) 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. Visit the Amazon Bedrock documentation pages for information about model availability and cross-region inferencing. Amazon Bedrock is […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake announces enhanced event filtering
AWS enhances event filtering in AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that helps you capture, immutably store, access, and analyze your activity logs, as well as AWS Config configuration items. Enhanced event filtering expands upon existing filtering capabilities, giving you even greater control over which CloudTrail events are ingested into your event data stores. […]
AWS – AWS Lambda supports Customer Managed Key (CMK) encryption for Zip function code artifacts
AWS Lambda now supports encryption of Lambda function Zip code artifacts using customer managed keys instead of default AWS owned keys. Using keys that they create, own, and manage can satisfy customer’s organizational security and governance requirements. AWS Lambda is widely adopted for its simple programming model, built-in event triggers, automatic scaling, and fault tolerance. […]
GCP – A new flexible DNS-based approach for accessing the GKE control plane
If you run Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you know it’s important to secure access to the cluster control plane that handles Kubernetes API requests, so you can prevent unauthorized access while still being able to control the cluster. Previously, GKE provided two primary methods to secure the control plane: authorized networks and disabling public endpoints. […]
GCP – How Verve achieves 37% performance gains with C4 machines and new GKE features
Earlier this year, Google Cloud launched the highly anticipated C4 machine series, built on the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors (5th Gen Emerald Rapids), setting a new industry-leading performance standard for both Google Compute Engine (GCE) and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers. C4 VMs deliver exceptional performance improvements and have been designed to handle your […]