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AWS – Amazon S3 Inventory can include ACLs as object metadata in inventory reports
With Amazon S3 Inventory, you can now easily review your access control lists (ACLs) on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in 2006. Now, when migrating to IAM-based bucket policies for access control, you can easily review all of […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS […]

AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates
Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates. Customers can now associate their 3072-bit RSA certificates with CloudFront distributions to enhance communication security between clients and CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Proton introduces deployment history
AWS Proton introduces deployment history, a new feature that provides greater visibility into cloud infrastructure deployment events. Platform engineers use Proton to define infrastructure as code patterns for their services and manage updates for services across shared resource environments. Proton deployment history makes it easier to see when deployments are initiated, what resources they target, […]

AWS – AWS DMS now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless as a target
AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS) now supports Amazon Redshift Serverless as a target endpoint. With this new support, you can securely migrate your data to Redshift Serverless, where it can be stored, queried, and analyzed without the need to provision or manage infrastructure. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to add columns to existing datasets
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to modify datasets by allowing customers to add columns to an existing schema. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Customers modify existing datasets to add new filtering columns for enhanced business logic and to add new columns that can improve […]

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor introduces alert categories in Channel Assembly
You can now see alerts in AWS Elemental MediaTailor Channel Assembly categorized to understand nature and severity. Alerts will be categorized as either Scheduling Error, Playback Warning or Info. Read More for the details.

GCP – DevOps Awards Winner VMO2 on how to achieve continuous improvement with DORA
In this blog post, we’re highlighting VMO2 for the DevOps achievements that earned them the ‘Continuous improvement with DORA’ award in the2022 DevOps Awards. Launched in June 2021, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) combined the UK’s largest, most reliable mobile network with a broadband network that offered the fastest widely-available broadband speeds. Since then, they’ve accrued […]

GCP – DevOps Awards winner Sabre on nurturing team culture
Sabre is a leading software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, their team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity across the travel ecosystem. Sabre partners with airlines, hoteliers, agencies, and other travel partners to retail, distribute, and fulfill travel. In this blog post, we’re highlighting Sabre for […]
GCP – Join optimizations with BigQuery primary keys and foreign keys
BigQuery is a completely serverless and cost-effective enterprise data warehouse that works across clouds and scales with your data. User data is stored in BigQuery tables. Every table is defined by a schema that describes the column names, data types, and other information. Recently, BigQuery introduced Unenforced Primary Key and Foreign Key Constraints. This post […]