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GCP – Enhancing Google Cloud’s blockchain data offering with 11 new chains in BigQuery
Early in 2018, Google Cloud worked with the community to democratize blockchain data via our BigQuery public datasets; in 2019, we expanded with six more datasets. Today, we’ve added eleven more of the most in-demand blockchains to the BigQuery public datasets, in preview. And we’re making improvements to existing datasets in the program, too. We’re […]
AWS – Announcing Swift Package Manager support in AWS CodeArtifact
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) support in CodeArtifact. Swift is the language of choice for developing applications on the Apple platform, and the Swift Package Manager is used to distribute source code in the Swift ecosystem. With SwiftPM support in CodeArtifact, developers can publish and download their Swift package […]
AWS – IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper now supports PKCS #11 modules
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere released credential helper version 1.1.0 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #11 compatible security modules. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing CreateSession API with the private key […]
AWS – Amazon Location Services announces a price reduction of up to 75% for tracking and geofencing
Today, Amazon Location Service announced a price reduction of up to 75% for tracking position writes and up to 70% for geofence evaluations, depending on your usage levels. Developers can use Amazon Location Trackers to track the current and historic location of devices in order to optimize operations such as asset management and delivery dispatch. […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map introduces new API for retrieving service revision
AWS Cloud Map introduces a new API for retrieving the revision of your services. It allows your applications to update the state of your cloud resources only when it has changed, minimizing the discovery traffic and API cost. With AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon Elastic […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry-based Distro for Node.js and Python
Use OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation with vender-neutral APIs to power metrics, logs, and distributed traces in Azure Monitor application insights. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Interactive Sessions releases new kernel and support IAM Conditionals
AWS Glue Interactive Sessions now supports 4 new notebook kernel magics: assume_role, tags, session_type and matplot. These magics are available in Glue Interactive Sessions kernel 1.0 or later. Additionally, Glue Interactive Sessions now supports IAM Conditionals. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle supports M6i, R6i, and R5b instances in new regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports M6i, R6i, and R5b instances in additional regions. M6i instances for RDS for Oracle will now be available in 9 new regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Stockholm), and Middle East (Bahrain, UAE). R6i instances for RDS for Oracle […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data Quality can now identify records that failed the CustomSQL rule type
AWS Glue Data Quality can now identify records that have the CustomSQL rule type, enabling customers to isolate problematic records from the good records to allow only high-quality data flows into their data lakes and warehouses. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch adds new Metric Math for RDS Performance Insights
Amazon CloudWatch announces support of a new Metric Math function called DB_PERF_INSIGHTS() to create CloudWatch alarms and dashboards on Amazon RDS Performance Insights metrics. Read More for the details.