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AWS – Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval improves data restore time by up to 85%, at no additional cost. Faster data restores automatically apply to the Standard retrieval tier when using Amazon S3 Batch Operations. These restores begin to return objects within minutes, so you can process restored data faster. Now, whether you are transcoding media, restoring operational […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Backup logically air-gapped vault (Preview)
Today, AWS Backup announces the preview of logically air-gapped vault, a new type of AWS Backup Vault that allows secure sharing of backups across accounts and organizations, supporting direct restore to help reduce recovery time from a data loss event. AWS Backup is a fully managed service that centralizes and automates data protection across AWS services and […]
AWS – AWS DataSync expands support for copying data to and from other clouds
AWS DataSync announces expanded support for copying data to and from storage in other clouds. In addition to support for Google Cloud Storage, Azure Files, and Azure Blob Storage, DataSync now supports copying data to and from DigitalOcean Spaces, Wasabi Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Cloudflare R2 Storage, and Oracle Cloud Storage. Using DataSync, […]
GCP – ChromeOS is the latest catch by Nordward, a seafood business that’s moved to the cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Christian Ahlin, CIO and Group Head of IT for Nordward, a Stockholm-based group of four seafood suppliers and wholesalers across Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, to restaurants and food purveyors. Nordward has adopted ChromeOS devices for its 300 employees, including sales teams that work with prospective and current customers. Selling […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream releases open-source ODBC driver
Amazon Timestream announces the availability of the Amazon Timestream ODBC driver, based on Microsoft’s Open Database Connectivity. This new driver allows applications such as Excel, PowerBI, JMP, and more to seamlessly integrate with Timestream’s powerful query engine, facilitating the analysis of billions of data points. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for online migration of clusters running in cluster mode
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports online migration from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache for Redis clusters running in cluster mode. Online migration simplifies moving data from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache with minimal application disruption. During the migration, ElastiCache replicates cache data from each self-managed Redis source shard to the target ElastiCache cluster. Once […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator extends IPv6 support to EC2 endpoints
Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator offers dual-stack accelerators that enable you to route IPv6 traffic to EC2 endpoints, in addition to dual-stack Application Load Balancer (ALB) endpoints. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer in additional regions
AWS Glue now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer in additional regions. You can use Amazon CodeWhisperer with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in AWS Glue Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio adds support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, Scala, and R. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyterlab Notebooks and tools such as Spark UI and YARN Timeline Service to simplify […]