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Azure – Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines
Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines is provides flexibility to choose any subscription during restore. Read More for the details.
GCP – Workflows patterns and best practices – Part 1
For the last couple of years, we’ve been using Workflows, Google Cloud’s service orchestrator, to bring order to our serverless microservices architectures. As we used and gained more experience with Workflows and service orchestration, we shared what he had learned in conference talks, blog posts, samples, and tutorials. Along the way, some common patterns and […]
AWS – AWS Secrets Manager now supports rotation of secrets as often as every four hours
AWS Secrets Manager now supports the ability to rotate secrets as often as every four hours, while providing the same managed rotation experience. With this launch, you can now use Secrets Manager to automate the rotation of credentials and access tokens that need to be refreshed more than once per day. This enables greater flexibility for […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports syncing products with Infrastructure as Code template files from GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket
AWS Service Catalog customers can now create AWS Service Catalog products that are synced to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are managed in external repositories such as GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, or Bitbucket. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup announces support for SAP HANA databases on Amazon EC2 in Preview
AWS Backup now offers a simple, cost-effective, and SAP-certified application-consistent backup and restore solution for SAP HANA databases running on Amazon EC2. With this launch, you can centrally automate backup and restore of your SAP HANA application data in addition to the currently supported AWS services. Using AWS Backup’s seamless integration with AWS Organizations, you […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Select improves query performance by up to 9x when using Trino
Amazon S3 improves performance of queries running on Trino by up to 9x when using Amazon S3 Select. Trino is an open source SQL query engine used to run interactive analytics on data stored in Amazon S3. With S3 Select, you “push down” the computational work to filter your S3 data instead of returning the […]
AWS – Run long running fault-tolerant SQL queries with Trino and Amazon EMR with checkpointing on Amazon S3 or HDFS
Today, Amazon EMR has announced support for long running fault-tolerant SQL queries on Trino engine (Project Tardigrade) with checkpointing in Amazon S3 or HDFS for fault-tolerance. Project Tardigrade aims to improve the user experience of long running, resource intensive queries on Trino, when used for ETL style workloads. Project Tardigrade uses Amazon S3 for checkpointing […]
AWS – Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules
Amazon EventBridge introduces new capabilities that make it simpler to build rules. Amazon EventBridge now supports generating CloudFormation templates from the rules and buses console pages. CloudFormation templates help provision and manage the configuration of event buses and rules, and you can now export your existing configurations in the console directly to a CloudFormation template. […]
AWS – Amazon Textract launches the ability to detect signatures on any document
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. Textract now provides you the capability to detect handwritten signatures, e-signatures, and initials on documents such as loan application forms, checks, claim forms and more. AnalyzeDocument Signatures reduces the need for human reviewers and helps […]
AWS – AWS X-Ray adds trace linking for event-driven applications built on Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda
AWS X-ray adds support for trace linking, enabling customers to visualize, and debug requests as they travel through event-driven applications built using Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) and AWS Lambda. Using trace linking, customers can now see the relationships between services and resources in their event-driven applications leveraging Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda, quickly identify performance bottlenecks, […]