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GCP – Managing carbon emissions across clouds: a practical example
As climate change continues to be a growing global concern, it is essential for organizations to take steps towards sustainability. One significant area where businesses can make a positive impact is by reducing their cloud carbon emissions. At Thoughtworks, we are able to estimate our carbon footprint across clouds using the open source Cloud Carbon […]
GCP – Improve query performance and optimize costs in BigQuery using the anti-pattern recognition tool
BigQuery is a serverless and cost-effective enterprise data warehouse that works across cloud environments and scales with your data. As with any large scale data-intensive platform, following best practices and avoiding inefficient anti-patterns goes a long way in terms of performance and cost savings. Usually SQL optimization requires a significant time investment from engineers, who […]
GCP – Designing Multi-regional Internal Load Balancing with Google Cloud iLB + Cloud DNS
Google Cloud has several load balancer types. For internal load balancing within Google Cloud, customers have 3 options: Internal HTTPS load balancing Internal TCP proxy load balancing Internal TCP/ UDP load balancing Google Cloud internal HTTP(S) load balancer is a proxy-based, regional Layer 7 load balancer that enables you to run and scale your services […]
GCP – The Prompt: 5 generative AI platform pillars + execs compare generative AI to past disruptions
Business leaders are buzzing about generative AI. To help you keep up with this fast-moving, transformative topic, each week in “The Prompt,” we’ll bring you observations from our work with customers and partners, as well as the newest AI happenings at Google. In this edition, Philip Moyer, Global VP, AI & Business Solutions at Google […]
Azure – General availability: Inbound ICMPv6 pings and traceroute are now supported on Azure Load Balancer
Ping and traceroute to both IPv4 and IPv6 frontend of a Standard Public Load Balancer like you natively would on an on-premises device without any external software needed. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports SnapStart for Java in 7 additional AWS Regions
Starting today, AWS Lambda SnapStart for Java is available in 7 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Jakarta, Osaka), Europe (Milan, Paris) and Middle East (Bahrain). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces scripts to bulk updates policies per new AWS Billing and Cost Management permissions
AWS is retiring IAM actions for AWS Billing, Cost Management, and Account consoles under aws-portal service prefix, purchase-orders:ViewPurchaseOrders, and purchase-orders:ModifyPurchaseOrders on July 6, 2023. Today, we are launching bulk migration scripts to allow customers to update policies containing the above old actions on the retirement path to include new fine-grained actions securely and quickly. Customers […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Amazon Aurora I/O-Optimized is a new configuration that provides improved price performance and predictable pricing for customers with I/O-intensive applications. Aurora I/O-Optimized offers improved performance, increasing throughput and reducing latency for customers’ most demanding workloads. With […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream now supports Customer Defined Partition Keys
Amazon Timestream announces the general availability of Customer Defined Partition Keys, providing additional flexibility for customers to partition their data based on their needs, and optimizing data collocation for lower query latency. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now supports custom Java libraries
Amazon Athena for Apache Spark now allows you to use your own Java libraries and customize the Spark configurations for your Spark workloads. You can use Java libraries as custom JARs with Athena Spark to analyze data from multiple sources or use functions in custom jars for more flexibility with calculations. Read More for the details.