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AWS – Amazon GameLift adds support for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon GameLift now supports Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late June 2023
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2023. In my previous newsletter, I discussed the growing, important role that accurate threat intelligence can play in helping keep organizations secure, and how we centered that at our Security Summit. Today’s cybersecurity threats can pose dangerous risks to organizations, and have a material impact on […]
GCP – Querying flexibly in Firestore with OR operator
You can now query Firestore using the OR operator. Your application may often need to compare one or more fields with two or more values and select the documents that match at least one of the values. This is an extension to the IN operator which could be used to compare multiple values with the […]
GCP – Introducing the Hive-BigQuery open-source Connector
In our work on the Big Data solutions architecture, BigQuery, and Dataproc teams, we talk to a lot of customers who are interested in migrating all or part of their data warehouse from Apache Hive to BigQuery, but who have hit some speed bumps along the way. To help, we are proud to announce the […]
GCP – Making insights actionable with new Looker Studio scheduling capabilities
Scheduling reports in Looker Studio helps teams predictably and reliably distribute insights to business users in the flow of work and workflows where they spend their time. This helps to foster a data culture, making information more actionable and contextual, and enabling cross-team collaboration. Today, we are introducing two new capabilities in Looker Studio scheduling: […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator adds new edge location
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda simplifies copying environment variables in the console code editor
AWS Lambda console code editor now includes a read file listing all the environment variables associated with the function, making it easier for developers to discover the variables and reference them in their code. Environment variables are key-value pairs that developers use to extend a function’s configuration outside of their code. When referencing the environment […]
AWS – Announcing applications manager for Amazon AppStream 2.0
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 introduces a new applications manager feature to help you package and mobilize your Windows applications between different environments without affecting the underlying base image or operating system. To achieve this, you can launch an app block builder instance, install your application(s) and create a self-contained and sharable application image. You can […]
AWS – New ODBC driver now available for Amazon Athena
Today, Amazon Athena released a new ODBC driver that improves the experience of connecting to, querying, and visualizing data from your favorite SQL development and business intelligence applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch now supports ‘Min vCPUs’ for Multi-Node Parallel Jobs
AWS Batch now supports specifying a minimum number of vCPUs (Min vCPUs) for Multi-Node Parallel (MNP) Jobs. MNP jobs allow users to run large-scale tightly coupled workloads, such as ML training, across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. With this launch, customers can now retain a specified number of vCPUs on a compute […]