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AWS – Amazon Lightsail supports easy switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only instance bundles
Amazon Lightsail now supports switching between dual-stack and IPv6-only bundles by removing or adding dynamic public IPv4 addresses on instances. Previously, you would have to select an IPv6-only bundle and start a new instance from scratch to move from dual-stack to IPv6-only bundles. With this feature, you can switch between dual-stack and IPv6-only plans on […]
GCP – Google Data Cloud innovations for continuous real-time intelligence
Organizations are increasingly looking to drive outcomes by harnessing real-time analytics. In the current AI era, it is crucial to deliver up-to-date information to AI systems that help make informed decisions, identify trends and anomalies, and implement proactive and effective interventions. To fully realize the benefits of real-time intelligence for visibility, predictions, and activation, you need […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Database Migration Service support for S3 Parquet as a source
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports AWS S3 parquet files as a source. Using AWS DMS, you can now migrate data in parquet format from S3 to any supported AWS DMS target provided the S3 Parquet data was generated by DMS. AWS DMS supports both full load and Change Data Capture (CDC) migration […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports GetClusterCredentialswithIAM for Redshift Data Sources
Amazon QuickSight now supports connectivity to Redshift data source using an IAM role through GetClusterCredentialswithIAM. This is an enhancement to the previously launched feature for Redshift RunasRole which now makes the Database user/Database Group parameters optional thereby implicitly tying the temporary user identity to the IAM credentials. This feature now enables customers to use LakeFormation-Managed […]
GCP – Releasing Artifact Registry assets across Organizations and Projects with serverless
Have you ever wondered if there is a more automated way to copy Artifact Registry or Container Registry Images across different projects and Organizations? In this article we will go over an opinionated process of doing so using serverless components in Google Cloud and its deployment with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). This article assumes knowledge […]
GCP – Unlocking enhanced LLM capabilities with RAG in BigQuery
The rise of generative AI has brought forth exciting possibilities, but it also has its limitations. Large language models (LLMs), the workhorses of generative AI, often lack access to specific data and real-time information, which can hinder their performance in certain scenarios. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is a technique within natural language processing that uses […]
GCP – Reusing the same address space for multiple GKE clusters in a single project
One of the benefits of Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is its use of a fully-integrated network model, which means that the Pod addresses are routable within the VPC network. But as your usage of GKE scales across your organization, you might find it difficult to allocate network space in a single VPC, and rapidly run […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now called Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser
Today, AWS End User Computing announced Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now called Amazon WorkSpaces Secure Browser. With WorkSpaces Secure Browser, users can access private websites and software-as-a-service (SaaS) web applications, interact with online resources, or browse the internet from a disposable container. The service helps reduces the risk of data exfiltration by streaming web content […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower improves control operations at scale
AWS Control Tower customers can now submit up to 100 control operations concurrently. These operations can span multiple organizational units, reducing the operational burden from repetitive execution. Enabling multiple controls at scale provides a consistent, standardized configuration across multiple AWS accounts. To monitor the status of the ongoing and queued control operations, customers can either […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer now provides filtering on resources that support tags
Today, AWS announces a new filter in AWS Resource Explorer to search for resources that support tags. This allows you to understand which resources can and cannot be tagged in order to better evaluate your tagging coverage in your organization or account. Currently, customers can use tag:none to view resources in their account that do […]