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GCP – This migration from Snowflake to BigQuery accelerated model building and cut costs in half
In 2024, retail sales for consumer packaged goods were worth $7.5 trillion globally. Their sheer variety — from cosmetics to clothing, frozen vegetables to vitamins — is hard to fathom. And distribution channels have multiplied: Think big box stores in the brick-and-mortar world and mega ecommerce sites online. Most importantly, jury-rigged digital tools can no […]
GCP – Isolated Recovery Environments: A Critical Layer in Modern Cyber Resilience
Written by: Jaysn Rye Executive Summary As adversaries grow faster, stealthier, and more destructive, traditional recovery strategies are increasingly insufficient. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2025 report reinforces this shift, highlighting that ransomware operators now routinely target not just production systems but also backups. This evolution demands that organizations re-evaluate their resilience posture. One approach gaining traction is […]
AWS – Amazon SNS now supports delivery to Amazon Data Firehose in three additional AWS Regions
Amazon Simple Notification Services (Amazon SNS) now supports notification delivery to Amazon Data Firehose endpoints in three additional AWS Regions, Asia Pacific (Taipei), Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions. You can now use Amazon SNS to deliver notifications to Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) endpoints for storage and analysis. Through Firehose delivery streams, customers can […]
AWS – AWS Fargate now supports SOCI Index Manifest v2 for greater deployment consistency
Amazon ECS customers using AWS Fargate launch mode now benefit from improved deployment consistency with SOCI Index Manifest v2 support. Seekable OCI (SOCI) accelerates Amazon ECS task launches by enabling containers to start running before the full container image is downloaded. SOCI Index Manifest v2 uses a cryptographic method to establish an explicit link between […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness launches accuracy improvements and new challenge setting for improved UX
Today, AWS announces accuracy improvements and new settings for Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness. Amazon Rekognition Face Liveness is a feature of Amazon Rekognition that detects in real-time whether real users, not bad actors using spoofs, can access your services. Customers across financial, gig economy, telecommunications, healthcare, and social media use Rekognition Face Liveness detection for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7i instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7i instances are available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Region. Amazon EC2 R7i instances are powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids), available only on AWS, and offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Graph Explorer Introduces Native Query Support for Gremlin and openCypher
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new feature in Graph Explorer that enables users to write and execute native Gremlin and openCypher queries directly within the interface. This enhancement empowers data scientists, developers, and database administrators to seamlessly interact with their graph databases using their preferred query language, eliminating the need […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Aurora DSQL is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and supports multi-Region clusters within Asia Pacific Regions – Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul) as well as European Regions – Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris). Aurora DSQL is the fastest serverless, distributed SQL database with active-active high availability and multi-Region […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides enhanced flow designer UI editing features
Amazon Connect now provides new editing and accessibility enhancements for the drag-and-drop flow designer making it easier to build customer service experiences. These enhancements include keyboard navigation, auto arranging of blocks, screen reader support, and improved support for high zoom on browsers. Additionally, when editing a flow block in configuration side panel on the flow […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL database clusters now support up to 256 TiB of storage volume
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports a maximum storage limit of 256 TiB, doubling the previous limit of 128 TiB. This enhancement allows customers to store and manage even larger datasets within a single Aurora database cluster simplifying data management for large-scale applications and supporting the growing data needs of modern applications. Customers only pay […]