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AWS – Amazon EC2 M6in and M6idn instances are now available in new regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6in and M6idn instances are available in AWS Regions Europe (Stockholm) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These sixth-generation network optimized instances, powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors and built on the AWS Nitro System, deliver up to 200Gbps network bandwidth, 2x more network bandwidth and up […]
GCP – Get a head start on 2024 with AI and more at Google Cloud Security Talks
October marks the 20th anniversary of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and the perfect time to hold Google Cloud Security Talks, our quarterly digital event on all things security. On October 25, we’ll bring together experts from Google Cloud and the broader Google security community to share insights, best practices, and ways to help increase resilience against […]
GCP – Simplify Dataflow development using Cloud Code plugin for IntelliJ IDE
The ability to execute Data Flow pipelines immediately from within the developer IDE is a powerful attribute that allows Data engineers and scientists to build out complete Data Flow pipelines. It smoothes the Dataflow pipeline development flow for new and existing users by enabling a rich development experience for Cloud Dataflow in the IDE so […]
GCP – How to use PostgreSQL drivers with Cloud Spanner at scale with Cloud Run
Innovators in financial services, gaming, retail, and many other industries rely on Cloud Spanner to power demanding relational database workloads that need to scale without downtime. Built on Google’s distributed infrastructure, Spanner provides a fully managed experience with the highest levels of consistency and availability at any scale. Cloud Spanner’s PostgreSQL interface makes the capabilities […]
GCP – Zero-downtime migrations to Memorystore for Redis Cluster
With the announcement of Memorystore for Redis Cluster at Google Next, we have many Redis administrators and developers asking how they can migrate from their existing Redis cluster environments. We understand that these are business-critical applications and need a zero downtime migration. Adopting Memorystore helps remove repetitive tasks like scaling, patching, backing up and configuring […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Lambda’s support for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) for outbound connections in VPC
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6, at no additional cost. With this launch, and Lambda’s support for public IPv6 endpoints (inbound connections) in 2021, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce […]
AWS – Amazon Textract launches Custom Queries to improve information extraction for business-specific documents
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Today, we are pleased to announce Custom Queries, a new Amazon Textract feature that enables customers to adapt the Queries feature and improve extraction accuracy for their business-specific documents. Queries is a feature within the […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) availability and performance capabilities
AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Availability Zone DNS affinity, disable connection termination for unhealthy targets, and UDP connection termination by default. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Direct Connect announces new location in Seoul, South Korea
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Digital Realty ICN10 data center in Seoul, South Korea. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions launches Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless
AWS Step Functions announces an Optimized Integration for Amazon EMR Serverless , adding support for the Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern with 6 EMR Serverless API Actions (CreateApplication, StartApplication, StopApplication, DeleteApplication, StartJobRun, and CancelJobRun). Read More for the details.