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AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 I4g storage-optimized instances
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) I4g storage-optimized instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now generally available. I4g instances deliver the best compute price performance for a storage-optimized instance versus comparable x86-based storage optimized instances, and the best storage performance per TB for a Graviton-based storage instance. Based on AWS Nitro SSDs that are custom […]

AWS – AWS Network Firewall ingress TLS inspection is now available in all regions
Ingress Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for AWS Network Firewall is now available in all AWS Regions where AWS Network Firewall is available today, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this launch, you can use AWS Network Firewall to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt TLS traffic originating from the internet, another VPC, or another subnet. […]

AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake enhances query support for all Presto SQL SELECT functions
AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query their audit and security logs for auditing, security investigations and operational troubleshooting, now supports all Presto SQL SELECT query functions for easy and flexible queryability of data . This new release includes support for popular query functions such as REGEXP_EXTRACT […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports 15-minute intervals for automatically computing aggregated asset property values
AWS IoT SiteWise now provides the ability for customers to automatically compute aggregated asset property values every 15 minutes. Customers can now get aggregated values for asset properties, metrics and transforms (mathematical expressions that map asset properties’ data points from one form to another) for every minute, 15-minute, hour, and day. AWS IoT SiteWise computes […]

AWS – AWS Glue large instance types are now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Glue G.4X and G.8X, the next series of AWS Glue workers for your most demanding serverless data integration workloads. Glue G.4X and G.8X workers provide higher compute, memory, and storage resources than current Glue workers. These new types of workers help you scale and run your most […]

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise enhances optimized storage in hot path data for higher throughput
Today, AWS IoT SiteWise announced new performance enhancements that will significantly improve the retrieval of industrial data from its hot storage tier. We have improved the GetAssetPropertyValueHistory and BatchGetAssetPropertyValueHistory APIs by increasing the maximum number of results for each paginated response from 250 up to 20K. With these upgrades, developers can now retrieve asset property […]

AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now available in 4 additional AWS regions
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), South America (Sao Paulo) and Europe (Paris). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that makes it easy to monitor and alarm on operational metrics at scale. Prometheus is a popular Cloud Native Computing Foundation […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds new scatterplot options supporting additional use cases
Amazon QuickSight now supports advance use cases for scatterplots with new options like support for visualizing unaggregated data, new ‘label’ field well and performance improvements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Athena now supports Apache Hudi 0.12.2
You can now use Amazon Athena to query tables created with Apache Hudi 0.12.2 which includes support for improved scalability of queries accessing data sets in Amazon S3 data lake. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.12.2 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache Hive or other compatible services. […]
GCP – Connecting GitHub Actions and Google Cloud Deploy
Google Cloud customers depend on Google Cloud Deploy to deliver their software to production. Taking advantage of a fully managed deployment service means you don’t need to burn cycles scaling and maintaining a self-hosted platform, and the controls and constraints built into Cloud Deploy help with making your pipelines reliable, safe, and trusted. Typically, Cloud […]