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GCP – Announcing AlloyDB free trial clusters: your playground for PostgreSQL innovation
What do you want from your PostgreSQL database? What if it could run much faster, so you could run the same applications using smaller instances and save on costs? Wouldn’t it be amazing if it had AI-assisted capabilities that not only made your database easier to manage, but also more reliable and secure? Or maybe […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces managed cache policies for web applications
Amazon CloudFront announces two new managed cache policies, UseOriginCacheControlHeaders and UseOriginCacheControlHeaders-QueryStrings, for dynamically generated websites and applications that return Cache-Control headers. With the new managed cache policies, CloudFront caches content based on the Cache-Control headers returned by the origin, and defaults to not caching when no Cache-Control header is returned. This functionality was previously available […]

AWS – FreeRTOS releases new Long Term Support version
Today, AWS announced the third release of FreeRTOS Long Term Support (LTS) – FreeRTOS 202406 LTS. FreeRTOS LTS releases provide feature stability with security updates and critical bug fixes for two years. The new LTS release includes the latest FreeRTOS kernel v11.1 that supports Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) and Memory Protection Units (MPU) and recently updated […]

AWS – Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) visualizations available in AWS Partner Central- Analytics and Insights Dashboard
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announces new 2024 AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) data visualizations in Analytics and Insights Dashboards, accessible via AWS Partner Central. AWS Partners with the Migration Competency and in Differentiated or Validation Stages of any Partner Path, can now access these new visualizations. Previously, Partners’ realization of their MAP benefit […]

AWS – Amazon EMR support for backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
We are excited to announce that backup and restore for Apache HBase Tables is now available in the AWS region in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Apache HBase Write Ahead Log allows recording all changes to data to file-based storage. With the launch today, customers can now write their Apache HBase write-ahead logs to the Amazon EMR […]

AWS – Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Canada West (Calgary) region
Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Canada West (Calgary) region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those […]

AWS – Amazon ECR adds EventBridge support with ECR’s replication feature
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now emits Amazon EventBridge events when customers successfully replicate images using ECR’s replication capability. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless service that makes it easy for customers to connect their applications using events generated from a variety of sources. ECR’s replication feature enables you to easily copy container images across […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches automated rotation of agent shifts
Amazon Connect now supports automated rotation of agent shifts, making it easier for contact center managers to administrate schedules and ensure that agents receive a business-defined sequence of shifts. Automated shift rotations speed up the week-to-week scheduling process for contact center managers, eliminating the need to manually move agents between different shifts. With shift rotation, […]

GCP – Deployment patterns for Dataproc Metastore on Google Cloud
If you work with big data, you’re likely familiar with Apache Hive, and the Hive Metastore, which has become the de facto standard for managing metadata in the big data ecosystem. Dataproc Metastore is a fully managed Apache Hive metastore (HMS) that runs on Google Cloud. Dataproc Metastore is highly available, autoheals, auto-scales, and is […]
GCP – Share your streaming data with Pub/Sub topics in Analytics Hub
Businesses share data assets across organizations efficiently and securely with BigQuery Analytics Hub. However, multiple industries need to share real-time streaming data with their partners and customers. These businesses want the ability to deliver real-time access to their streaming data to internal teams or external customers. For example, a financial institution wants to share and […]