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GCP – Accelerating CDC insights with Dataflow and BigQuery
Data-driven companies are increasingly infusing real-time data into their applications and user experiences, especially with the advent of new technologies that make data capture more on-demand – and at a higher volume – than ever before. Change data capture (CDC) is a long-standing mechanism that data practitioners use to connect their transactional systems with their […]
GCP – Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL data cache under the hood
Data is the lifeblood of the organization. Being able to make quick, accurate and actionable decisions based on authoritative data enables enterprises to offer differentiated services and improve customer satisfaction. The rise of generative AI has only further amplified this. It’s therefore important that your database provides near-real-time performance when interacting with operational data. For […]
GCP – Controlling metric ingestion with Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus
By default, Google Cloud Monitoring accepts and processes all well-formed metrics sent to a metric ingestion endpoint. However, under certain circumstances, metrics generation can be prolific, leading to a series of unnecessary expenses. This is especially true for verbose metrics of no particular utility. To control costs, platform users need a way to manage the […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches UI and API support for enhanced search capabilities for Flows and Flow Modules
Amazon Connect now provides enhanced search capabilities for flows and flow modules on the Connect admin website and programmatically using APIs. You can now search for flows and flow modules by name, description, type, status, and tags, making it easy to filter and identify a specific flow when managing your Connect instances. For example, you […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now integrates with Amazon DataZone to help unify governance across data and ML assets
Amazon SageMaker now integrates with Amazon DataZone making it easier for customers to access machine learning (ML) infrastructure, data and ML assets. This integration will unify data governance across data and ML workflows. ML administrators can setup the infrastructure controls and permissions for ML projects in Amazon DataZone. Project members can collaborate on business use […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudTrail support for flow management pages
Amazon Connect now provides AWS CloudTrail support for flow management pages on the Connect admin website. When you add, update, or delete a flow from a flow management page, a record of that activity is available in AWS CloudTrail for visibility, reporting, and compliance, helping you answer questions such as, “who last updated this flow?” […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now available in Europe (Paris) region
We are excited to announce that Amazon OpenSearch Serverless is expanding availability to the Europe West (Paris) EU-West-3 region. 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’ compute capacity used for data ingestion, search, […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache updates minimum TLS version to 1.2
Today we are updating the minimum supported TLS version to 1.2 on Amazon ElastiCache compatible with open-source Redis version 6 and above, across all regions. This update is designed to help you meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Amazon ElastiCache supports the Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol, which is used to secure data in-transit […]
AWS – Announcing a larger instance bundle for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail now offers a larger instance bundle with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB memory. The new instance bundle is available with Linux operating system (OS) and application blueprints, for both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking types. You can create instances using the new bundle with pre-configured Linux OS and application blueprints including WordPress, Drupal, Magento, […]
AWS – AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls
AWS Budgets now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access. You can now add tags to your AWS Budgets resources and define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Budgets resources based on their resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these […]