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AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 C7gn instances general availability
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton processors. Amazon EC2 C7gn instances feature the new 5th generation AWS Nitro Cards and deliver the highest network bandwidth, the best packet-processing performance, and the best price performance for network-intensive workloads. C7gn instances […]
AWS – Announcing nightly builds of Amazon Corretto
Amazon Corretto nightly builds are now available at downloads.corretto.aws for Linux, Windows and Mac platforms. Developers can now test the latest OpenJDK community code and bug fixes without waiting for the next quarterly release. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs announces new Log Insights dedup command
Amazon CloudWatch Logs is excited to announce a new Logs Insights command, dedup, which enables customers to eliminate duplicate results when analyzing logs. Customers frequently want to query their logs and view only unique results based on one or more fields. You can now use the new dedup command in your Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in Southeast Asia, UK South, South Central US and West US 3
Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage is now available in more regions and offers the most advanced general-purpose block storage solution with the best price performance. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config now supports 21 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 21 more resource types for services, including AWS Amplify, AWS App Mesh, AWS App Runner, Amazon AppStream 2.0, Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon CloudWatch Evidently, Amazon Forecast, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon Kinesis Data […]
AWS – AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with new ChangeSets parameter
AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter OnStackFailure for the CreateChangeSet API that allows customers to control the rollback behavior of ChangeSets. Customers use ChangeSets to preview the impact of a stack operation on active resources. Customers can deploy ChangeSets with an ExecuteChangeSet operation. With this launch, customers can modify the actions that CloudFormation will take […]
Azure – General availability: Introducing DropMappedField transformation for data mappings in Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer has added a new capability called "DropMappedField" to its data mappings. This feature allows users to map an object in a JSON document to a column while removing any nested fields that are already referenced by other column mappings. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerate BigLake performance to run large-scale analytics workloads
Data lakes have historically trailed data warehouses in key features, especially query performance that limited the ability to run large-scale analytics workloads. With BigLake, we lifted these restrictions. This blog post shares an under-the-hood view of how BigLake accelerates query performance through a scalable metadata system, efficient query plans and materialized views. BigLake allows customers […]
GCP – Transform your Apache Iceberg lakehouse with BigLake
When your data is siloed data across lakes and warehouses, it can be hard to transform outcomes with your data. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that provides data management capabilities for data hosted on object stores and enables organizations to run analytics and AI use cases over a single copy of data. A […]
GCP – From B2C to B2B: Picsart’s Apigee-powered pivot
With 150 million users and counting, Picsart was originally founded as a photo and video editing app we use to enhance our everyday life before uploading them to various social media platforms. As its user numbers continue growing, the company began exploring options for incorporating its easy-to-use editing tools into other applications and services. Now, […]