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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 […]

GCP – Setting resource requests: the key to Kubernetes cost optimization
This is the first installment of a seven-part series covering the key findings from the State of Kubernetes Cost Optimization, a quantitative research report analyzing the cost efficiency of real-world, large-scale, anonymized Kubernetes clusters. Workload requests are used everywhere in Kubernetes, from scheduling to scaling up and scaling down the cluster, to workload quality of […]

GCP – Accelerate your Multiplayer Game Development with the Global Scale Multiplayer Demo
Building the backend for a fast-paced competitive multiplayer game is a complex task. There are many moving parts to coordinate, and the product and solution landscape is practically endless. There are a myriad of managed products, supporting open source solutions and more that need to be evaluated, experimented with and implemented, and the path to […]

GCP – 1 つのプロジェクトで複数の Firestore データベースを管理
※この投稿は米国時間 2023 年 7 月 8 日に、Google Cloud blog に投稿されたものの抄訳です。 このたび、Google Cloud の単一プロジェクトにおける複数 Firestore データベースのサポートを開始しましたので、お知らせいたします。1 つのプロジェクトに複数のデータベースを作成し、顧客データやマイクロサービス、開発 / テスト / ステージングの各種環境を隔離して管理できるようになりました。 この複数データベースのサポートには以下の機能が含まれます。 Firestore データベースの CRUD 管理: Firestore で新しい API エンドポイント、Terraform リソース、gcloud CLI コマンド、Firebase CLI コマンドを使用して、1 つ以上の Firestore データベースを管理できるようになりました。 Identity and Access Management による条件付きアクセス制御: IAM Conditions または Firebase セキュリティ ルールを使用して、異なる Firestore データベースに異なるセキュリティ ポリシーを適用できるようになりました。 Firestore データベースの 2 つのモードをサポート: […]

AWS – AWS Lambda now detects and stops recursive loops in Lambda functions
AWS Lambda can now detect and stop recursive loops in Lambda functions. Customers build event-driven applications using Lambda functions to process events from sources like Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS. However, in certain scenarios, due to resource misconfiguration or code defect, a processed event may be sent back to the same service or resource that […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL now supports pgvector for vector storage and similarity search
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the pgvector extension to store embeddings from machine learning (ML) models in your database and to perform efficient similarity searches. Embeddings are numerical representations (vectors) created from generative AI that capture the semantic meaning of text input into a large language model (LLM). pgvector can store and search embeddings […]