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GCP – DevOps Award winner METRO.digital on being a “DevOps Dreamer”
Besides the authors mentioned in the byline, the team is composed also of Diana Codreanu and Martin Filipczyk. Founded in Germany in 1964, METRO is a B2B wholesaler with sales of €29.8 in the financial year 2021/22. METRO.digital is the tech product-led company of METRO, the leading international specialist for wholesale and food trade. With […]
AWS – AWS announces new AWS Direct Connect location in Lima, Peru
Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cirion data center in Lima, Peru. By connecting your network to AWS at the new location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. Read More for the […]
GCP – More Control Loading the Maps JavaScript API
Today we’re sharing three big improvements to how the Maps JavaScript API is loaded: an API for flexible library loading, the new inline bootstrap loader, and a set of performance improvements. Flexible library loading The Maps JavaScript API is made up of libraries which developers specify for inclusion when loading the API. These libraries go […]
Azure – Azure DevOps July 2023 updates
In July, we’ve delivered multiple improvements across Azure DevOps services. You can now dismiss dependency scanning alerts in Advanced Security that you believe to be a false positive or acceptable risk. In Azure Repos, we changed the default behavior to remove "Edit policies" permission when creating a new branch. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now has a progress indicator for the storage optimization process
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports a progress indicator for improved visibility into the storage optimization process. With the progress indicator, you get better visibility into the progress of storage optimization process such as scaling up of storage sizes and changing the storage volumes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing the Connect Ready Program
The contact center industry is expanding to meet the needs of their customers. With the rapid growth seen in the industry, more diverse and scalable solutions and products are needed. Essential to supporting the customer and consumer experience is supporting that growth with AWS integrations. The contact center industry can be complex, often addressing multiple […]
AWS – Accelerate your CloudFormation authoring experience with looping function
AWS CloudFormation announces looping capability with Fn::ForEach intrinsic function. With Fn::ForEach, you can replicate parts of your templates with minimal lines of code. You can use Fn::ForEach to simplify your template layout and make it easier and faster for you and your peers to review your code. Fn::ForEach helps reduce human errors such as updating […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 2.12 (compatible with MySQL 5.7.40) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) will support MySQL 5.7.40. In addition to several security enhancements and bug fixes, this release is fully compatible with MySQL 5.7.40. Previous Aurora MySQL 2.x versions were compatible with MySQL 5.7.12. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 2 and MySQL 5.7.40 release […]
AWS – IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper adds support for OS certificate stores
Today, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Roles Anywhere released credential helper version 1.0.5 to include support for X.509 certificates and private keys that are stored in macOS and Windows certificate stores. IAM Roles Anywhere credential helper is a tool that manages the process of signing the CreateSession API with the private key associated with […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P5 instances, optimized for generative AI and HPC, are generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P5 instances, powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. These instances deliver the highest performance in Amazon EC2 for deep learning and high performance computing (HPC) applications. They help you accelerate your time to solution by up to 6x and lower […]