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AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with Amazon SageMaker Studio for machine learning (ML) model training. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Provider (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your ML datasets in S3. Using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin within Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks
Amazon S3 Access Grants now integrate with open source Python frameworks using the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) plugin. S3 Access Grants help you to map identities in Identity Providers (IdPs) such as Active Directory, or AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, to your datasets in S3. Importing the Boto3 plugin to your client replaces […]
AWS – RDS for PostgreSQL supports PL/Rust crates serde, serde_json, regex, and url
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports new PL/Rust crates such as serde and serde_json crates, allowing you to exchange information between server and client or between servers by serializing and deserializing data structures in your PL/Rust user-defined functions. The release also includes support for regex crate that allow you to search strings for matches of […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches the ability to preferentially route contacts to specific agents within a queue
Amazon Connect now supports the ability to preferentially route a contact within a queue to specific agents. Using this new feature, you can now set the preferred agent(s) for a given contact, and if that agent is unavailable, fall back to the next set of routing criteria. You can also use this feature to integrate […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway WebSocket APIs now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Today, Amazon API Gateway has expanded the availability of WebSocket APIs to 7 additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Canada West (Calgary). With this launch, customers can build APIs with real-time bi-directional communication across all commercial AWS Regions. Amazon API Gateway […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service supports Dynatrace post-launch action
Starting today, AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) provides an action for installing the Dynatrace agent on your migrated instances. For each migrated server, you can choose to automatically install the Dynatrace agent to support your observability needs. Application Migration Service minimizes time-intensive, error-prone manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to […]
GCP – Loyal Guru slashes query latency by 40-50% with AlloyDB for PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: Loyal Guru, a loyalty and offer personalization platform, uses scalable and secure architecture from Google Cloud to help its retail customers deliver highly personalized experiences in real time. By leveraging Google Cloud databases like AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company overcame performance bottlenecks and reduced query latency by 40-50%. At Loyal Guru, we understand […]
GCP – 3 ways to restrict access to your Cloud Data Fusion instance and pipelines
Cloud Data Fusion is a fully managed, cloud-native, enterprise data integration service for visually building and managing data pipelines that are secure. Restricting access is one of the key ways it delivers on its security goals. In this blog, we explain three different ways to manage access control in Cloud Data Fusion: Instance-level access control […]
GCP – Announcing new stream recovery capabilities for Datastream
In the complex and ever-changing world of data replication, replication pipelines are prone to failure. Identifying the cause and time of failure can be a difficult task, and you must perform a series of manual steps to reinitiate replication while minimizing data integrity issues. The new stream recovery feature in Datastream enables you to quickly […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring now supports Ubuntu and Debian OS
The Amazon GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring eBPF security agent now supports Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads that use the Ubuntu (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04) and Debian (Debian 11 and Debian 12) operating system. If you use GuardDuty EC2 Runtime Monitoring with automated agent management then GuardDuty will automatically upgrade the security agent for […]