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GCP – Boost performance of Go applications with profile-guided optimization
In 2023, Go 1.21 introduced profile-guided optimization, or PGO. With PGO, you can provide the Go compiler a profile of your application at runtime, which the Go compiler then uses to make smarter decisions about how to optimize your code on the next build. Teams at Google and Uber collaborated to build PGO beginning in […]
GCP – Emboldened and Evolving: A Snapshot of Cyber Threats Facing NATO
Written by: John Hultquist  As North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and partners gather for a historic summit, it is important to take stock of one of its most pressing challenges—the cyber threat. The Alliance faces a barrage of malicious cyber activity from all over the globe, carried out by emboldened state-sponsored actors, hacktivists, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS introduces new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for FIFO queues
Amazon Simple Queue Service introduces two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to improve the usage visibility of FIFO queues. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. With the new metrics, SQS customers have greater visibility into their FIFO usage. The new […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 now available in eight additional AWS regions
Snapshot Export to S3 for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS snapshots is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE) regions. Snapshot export to S3 exports snapshot data as Apache Parquet, an efficient open columnar storage format. […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now adds programmatic deployments through APIs and Cloudformation templates
AWS Launch Wizard now enables customers to programmatically deploy workloads on AWS using Application Programming Interface (API) or CloudFormation templates while still leveraging built-in automation and best practice recommendations. With this launch, customers now have a choice to deploy third-party applications on AWS such as SQL Server – SingleNode, HA, or FCI, SAP, and all […]
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports M6gd and R6gd database instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton2-based M6gd and R6gd database instances in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this regional expansion, M6gd instances are now available for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Hong […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone introduces fine-grained access control
Today, Amazon DataZone has introduced fine-grained access control, providing data owners granular control over their data at row and column levels. Customers use Amazon DataZone to catalog, discover, analyze, share, and govern data at scale across organizational boundaries with governance and access controls. Data owners can now restrict access to specific records of data, instead […]
AWS – AWS Lambda adds support for runtime management controls in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now supports runtime management controls in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The operational simplicity of automatic runtime updates is one of the features customers most like about Lambda. This release provides customers running critical production workloads with more visibility and control over when runtime updates are applied to their functions. For each runtime, […]
AWS – AWS Lambda introduces new controls to make it easier to search, filter, and aggregate Lambda function logs
AWS Lambda announces advanced logging controls that enable you to natively capture logs in JSON structured format, adjust log levels, and select the Amazon CloudWatch log group for your Lambda functions. You can now capture your Lambda logs in JSON structured format without having to bring your own logging libraries. JSON format allows logs to […]
AWS – Amazon Q Developer is now generally available (GA) in the Visual Studio IDE
Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. launches the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in the Visual Studio IDE, available as part of the AWS Toolkit extension. You can now chat with Amazon Q about your project and ask Amazon Q to scan your project for security vulnerabilities. Amazon Q Developer helps simplify the software development […]