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AWS – Amazon MWAA now available in additional Regions
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) is now available in five new AWS Regions: Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Middle East (Bahrain). Amazon MWAA is a managed service for Apache Airflow that lets you use the same familiar Apache Airflow platform as you do today […]
AWS – Application Load Balancer launches IPv6 only support for internet clients
Application Load Balancer (ALB) now allows customers to provision load balancers without IPv4s for clients that can connect using just IPv6s. To connect, clients can resolve AAAA DNS records that are assigned to ALB. The ALB is still dual stack for communication between the load balancer and targets. With this new capability, you have the […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports creating rules for monitoring and alerting on Flow metrics
You can now configure rules to automatically create a task, send an email, or generate an Amazon Eventbridge event whenever a Flows and Flow Modules metrics breaches the threshold you define. For example, you can create a rule to assign a task to a contact center administrator whenever the dropped rate (i.e. percentage of contacts that […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion launches new user interface for easy blueprint discovery
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now offers a new user interface that enables searching for blueprints using full-text search in the AWS Console, helping you easily discover all the sources that you can ingest data from into Amazon OpenSearch Service. Blueprints are pre-filled OpenSearch Ingestion configuration files that help you quickly get started with ingesting data from […]
AWS – Amazon MWAA now supports Airflow REST API with web server auto scaling
Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) now supports the Airflow REST API along with web server auto scaling, allowing customers to programmatically monitor and manage their Apache Airflow environments at scale. Amazon MWAA is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that makes it easier to set up and operate end-to-end data pipelines in […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Europe (London) and Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon OpenSearchServerless in the Europe West (London) and Asia Pacific South (Mumbai) regions. OpenSearch Serverless is a serverless deployment option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it simple to run search and analytics workloads without the complexities of infrastructure management. OpenSearch Serverless automatically provisions and scales resources to provide consistently […]
Azure – General Availability: Data API builder
Add a feature-rich data API to an Azure database or on-prem database using Microsoft’s open-source Data API builder. Read More for the details.
Azure – The availability of Azure compute reservations will continue until further notice
Initially planned to end on January 1, 2024, the availability of Azure compute reservation exchanges for Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Dedicated Host and Azure App Service has been extended until further notice. Read More for the details.
GCP – Automatically disabling leaked service account keys: What you need to know
At Google, we’re always evolving our security capabilities and practices to make our cloud the most trusted cloud. As part of this continued effort, Google Cloud’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) recently released even stronger security defaults that can help you bolster the baseline security and control of your cloud environment. We offer several options […]
GCP – Announcing general availability of Ray on Vertex AI
Developers and engineers face several major challenges when scaling AI/ML workloads. One challenge is getting access to the AI infrastructure they need. AI/ML workloads require a significant amount of computational resources, such as CPUs and GPUs. Developers need to have sufficient resources to run their workloads. Another challenge is handling the diverse patterns and programming […]