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GCP – Using Cloud Spanner to handle high throughput writes
Several social apps maintain feeds and allow users to upvote and share content through their social platforms. These votes and shares are tracked as “counters” in the backend database. This guide provides an array of choices to implement upvote and share counters using a Cloud Spanner database. This could be easily extended to track scores […]
GCP – From Receipts to Riches: Save Money w/ Google Cloud & Supermarket Bills – Part 1
In today’s world, every penny counts, and saving money on supermarket spending is no exception. Have you ever wondered: How many packets of quinoa did you buy this year? How much have egg prices gone up? Why are grocery bills high in certain months? What’s the most expensive item you’ve ever bought at the supermarket? […]
GCP – Managing fine-grained access at Spanner scale
Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully managed relational database that is strongly consistent, highly scalable, and offers up to 99.999% of availability. It powers applications of all sizes in industries such as financial services, games, retail, and healthcare. Spanner has always provided access control with Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM provides a simple and […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall now supports Reject action in stream exception policy
Today, AWS announces support for Reject action in stream exception policy of AWS Network Firewall to improve performance of latency-sensitive applications. AWS Network Firewall is a managed firewall service that makes it easy to deploy essential network protections for all your Amazon VPCs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in two additional AWS Regions
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Amazon VPC IPAM is now available in two additional Regions: Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta). Read More for the details.
AWS – SageMaker announces ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 instances for model deployment
We are excited to announce the availability of ml.inf2 and ml.trn1 family of instances on Amazon SageMaker for deploying machine learning (ML) models for Real-time and Asynchronous inference. You can use these instances on SageMaker to achieve high performance at a low cost for generative artificial intelligence (AI) models, including large language models (LLMs) and […]
AWS – AWS VSS application-consistent backups now supports PowerShell logging
AWS VSS application-consistent backups now allows customers to take application-consistent backups while PowerShell Logging is enabled. AWS VSS application-consistent backups now incorporates a parallel processing ability that enables its EC2 Windows customers achieve successful VSS backups in a broader range of environments. With this launch, customers will see improved compatibility between VSS and applications such […]
AWS – AWS CodePipeline is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS CodePipeline in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports self-hosted notebooks for managed endpoints
We are excited to announce the addition of self-hosted Jupyter notebooks as another mechanism to run interactive workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers setup and use a managed endpoint (available in preview) to […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now available in the Asia Pacific (Melbourne) region
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics makes it easier to transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Apache Flink is an open source framework and engine for processing data streams. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building and managing Apache Flink applications. Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink integrates with […]