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GCP – Manage dynamic query concurrency with BigQuery query queues
BigQuery is a powerful cloud data warehouse that can handle demanding workloads. BigQuery users can get the benefit of continuous improvements in performance, durability, efficiency, and scalability, without downtime and upgrades. Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of query queues in BigQuery. What is query queues and why use it? BigQuery query […]
GCP – Cloud Storage announcements at Next ‘23: a recap
Cloud Storage provides simple, scalable, secure, and cost-effective object storage for customers to store, access, and manage their data. This year at Google Cloud Next ‘23, we presented a number of new Cloud Storage capabilities designed to help you serve your storage needs for mission-critical applications of all kinds, including AI/ML and data analytics workloads. […]
GCP – New custom security posture controls and threat detections in Security Command Center
Security Command Center Premium, Google Cloud’s built-in security and risk management solution, provides out-of-the-box security controls for cloud posture management and threat detection. As our customers build more complex environments with different risk profiles, cloud security teams may need to monitor for specific conditions and threats not covered by Security Command Center’s default findings and […]
GCP – Expanding GKE posture: Policy Controller violations now in Security Command Center
Customers using Kubernetes at scale need consistent guardrails for how resources are used across their environments to improve security, resource management, and flexibility. Customers have told us that they need an easy way to apply and view those policy guardrails, so we launched the Policy Controller dashboard and added support for all GKE environments. We […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation launches Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog
Today, AWS Lake Formation announces the general availability of Hybrid Access Mode for AWS Glue Data Catalog. This feature provides you the flexibility to selectively enable Lake Formation for databases and tables in your AWS Glue Data Catalog. Before this launch, you had to move all existing users of a table into Lake Formation in […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
AWS HealthOmics is now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. By removing the undifferentiated heavy lifting, customers can generate deeper insights from omics data to improve health and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc7g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Ireland), and the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. Amazon EC2 Hpc7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton processors, which are custom Arm-based processors designed by AWS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing incremental export to S3 for Amazon DynamoDB
Today, Amazon DynamoDB announces the general availability of incremental export to S3, that allows you to export only the data that has changed within a specified time interval. With incremental exports, you can now export data that was inserted, updated or deleted, in small increments. You can export changed data ranging from a few megabytes […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Contact Lens launches permission for agents to view their own contacts
Amazon Connect Contact Lens now supports a new permission to provide agents with access to only the contacts that they handled, within the contact search page in the Amazon Connect UI. Today, Amazon Connect has permissions that enable contact center managers to access contacts handled by agents in their teams and evaluate agent performance. With […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless introduces application-wide default job configurations
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option that helps data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. We are happy to announce that starting today, you can set default configurations at the application level, allowing you to […]