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AWS – Default Role in CodeCatalyst Environments
Today Amazon CodeCatalyst announces support for adding a default IAM role to an environment. Previously – when a workflow was configured – a user was required to specify the environment, AWS account connection, and IAM role for each individual action in order for that action to interact with AWS resources. With the default IAM role, […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports IPv6 for outbound connections in VPC in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda now allows Lambda functions to access resources in dual-stack VPC (outbound connections) over IPv6 in the AWS GovCloud(US) Regions. With this launch, Lambda enables you to scale your application without being constrained by the limited number of IPv4 addresses in your VPC, and to reduce costs by minimizing the need for translation mechanisms. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 is now available in AWS Canada (Calgary) region
You can now use the Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 with Amazon Redshift in the AWS Canada (Calgary) region. Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2 makes data in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse and data lake more accessible with a web-based tool for SQL users such as data analysts, data scientists, and database developers. With Query […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview)
Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 now enables customers to export their cost and usage data with the FOCUS 1.0 schema to Amazon S3. This feature is in preview. FOCUS is a new open-source cloud billing data specification that provides standardization to simplify cloud financial management across multiple sources. Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 includes several […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs are now available on AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
Starting today, customers can reference the latest macOS AMIs via public parameters on the AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. With this functionality, customers can query the public parameters to retrieve the latest macOS imageIDs, ensure that new EC2 Mac instances are launched with the latest macOS versions, and display a complete list of all available […]
AWS – AWS Billing and Cost Management now provides Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub
Data Exports for Cost Optimization Hub now enables customers to export their cost optimization recommendations to Amazon S3. Cost Optimization Hub recommendations are consolidated from over 15 types of AWS cost optimization recommendations, such as EC2 instance rightsizing, Graviton migration, and Savings Plan purchases across their AWS accounts and AWS Regions. Exports are delivered on […]
GCP – Network Performance Decoded: Benchmarking TCP and UDP bulk flows
Here on the Google Cloud networking team, we’ve been deep in the trenches with our customers, helping them build, fix, and supercharge their networks for years. In that time, we’ve uncovered some valuable patterns and best practices for maximizing network performance and efficiency. This wealth of knowledge is more than just a theoretical resource — […]
GCP – Leveling up FinOps: 5 cost management innovations from FinOps X 2024
At Google Cloud, our FinOps product philosophy is that all cloud costs should be visible and allocated, spend should be efficient with no waste, and there are of course no surprise costs. And once again, Google Cloud is at the forefront of FinOps innovation, leading with some exciting new product announcements at FinOps X 2024. […]
GCP – Normalize billing data across clouds with new Looker template and BigQuery views
At Google Cloud, we strongly believe you should have resources to analyze Google Cloud costs alongside other cloud providers, so you can better manage and optimize cloud costs. You should not need to spend time mapping billing terminology across cloud providers. And we believe in doing that through open standards. We were a founding member […]
GCP – Simplify historical data tracking in BigQuery with Datastream’s append-only CDC
Organizations often grapple with the need to have both an up-to-date “source of truth” as well as the ability to track the complete history of changes within their data. When managing this data within operational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL, a common approach is to utilize change data capture (CDC) to replicate the changes to […]