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AWS – Amazon SNS now supports sending SMS from Canada West (Calgary) region
Customers that use Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) can now host their applications in Canada West (Calgary) region, and send text messages (SMS) to consumers in more than 200 countries and territories. Using Amazon SNS, customers can send a message directly to one phone number, or multiple phone numbers at once by subscribing those […]
AWS – Amazon ECR adds EventBridge support with ECR’s replication feature
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now emits Amazon EventBridge events when customers successfully replicate images using ECR’s replication capability. Amazon EventBridge is a serverless service that makes it easy for customers to connect their applications using events generated from a variety of sources. ECR’s replication feature enables you to easily copy container images across […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches automated rotation of agent shifts
Amazon Connect now supports automated rotation of agent shifts, making it easier for contact center managers to administrate schedules and ensure that agents receive a business-defined sequence of shifts. Automated shift rotations speed up the week-to-week scheduling process for contact center managers, eliminating the need to manually move agents between different shifts. With shift rotation, […]
GCP – Deployment patterns for Dataproc Metastore on Google Cloud
If you work with big data, you’re likely familiar with Apache Hive, and the Hive Metastore, which has become the de facto standard for managing metadata in the big data ecosystem. Dataproc Metastore is a fully managed Apache Hive metastore (HMS) that runs on Google Cloud. Dataproc Metastore is highly available, autoheals, auto-scales, and is […]
GCP – Share your streaming data with Pub/Sub topics in Analytics Hub
Businesses share data assets across organizations efficiently and securely with BigQuery Analytics Hub. However, multiple industries need to share real-time streaming data with their partners and customers. These businesses want the ability to deliver real-time access to their streaming data to internal teams or external customers. For example, a financial institution wants to share and […]
GCP – Boost performance of Go applications with profile-guided optimization
In 2023, Go 1.21 introduced profile-guided optimization, or PGO. With PGO, you can provide the Go compiler a profile of your application at runtime, which the Go compiler then uses to make smarter decisions about how to optimize your code on the next build. Teams at Google and Uber collaborated to build PGO beginning in […]
GCP – Emboldened and Evolving: A Snapshot of Cyber Threats Facing NATO
Written by: John Hultquist As North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and partners gather for a historic summit, it is important to take stock of one of its most pressing challenges—the cyber threat. The Alliance faces a barrage of malicious cyber activity from all over the globe, carried out by emboldened state-sponsored actors, hacktivists, […]
AWS – Amazon SQS introduces new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for FIFO queues
Amazon Simple Queue Service introduces two new Amazon CloudWatch metrics to improve the usage visibility of FIFO queues. Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. With the new metrics, SQS customers have greater visibility into their FIFO usage. The new […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 now available in eight additional AWS regions
Snapshot Export to S3 for Amazon Aurora and Amazon RDS snapshots is now available in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (UAE) regions. Snapshot export to S3 exports snapshot data as Apache Parquet, an efficient open columnar storage format. […]
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now adds programmatic deployments through APIs and Cloudformation templates
AWS Launch Wizard now enables customers to programmatically deploy workloads on AWS using Application Programming Interface (API) or CloudFormation templates while still leveraging built-in automation and best practice recommendations. With this launch, customers now have a choice to deploy third-party applications on AWS such as SQL Server – SingleNode, HA, or FCI, SAP, and all […]