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AWS – AWS CloudFormation accelerates dev-test cycle with new ChangeSets parameter
AWS CloudFormation launches a new parameter OnStackFailure for the CreateChangeSet API that allows customers to control the rollback behavior of ChangeSets. Customers use ChangeSets to preview the impact of a stack operation on active resources. Customers can deploy ChangeSets with an ExecuteChangeSet operation. With this launch, customers can modify the actions that CloudFormation will take […]
Azure – General availability: Introducing DropMappedField transformation for data mappings in Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer has added a new capability called "DropMappedField" to its data mappings. This feature allows users to map an object in a JSON document to a column while removing any nested fields that are already referenced by other column mappings. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerate BigLake performance to run large-scale analytics workloads
Data lakes have historically trailed data warehouses in key features, especially query performance that limited the ability to run large-scale analytics workloads. With BigLake, we lifted these restrictions. This blog post shares an under-the-hood view of how BigLake accelerates query performance through a scalable metadata system, efficient query plans and materialized views. BigLake allows customers […]
GCP – Transform your Apache Iceberg lakehouse with BigLake
When your data is siloed data across lakes and warehouses, it can be hard to transform outcomes with your data. Apache Iceberg is an open table format that provides data management capabilities for data hosted on object stores and enables organizations to run analytics and AI use cases over a single copy of data. A […]
GCP – From B2C to B2B: Picsart’s Apigee-powered pivot
With 150 million users and counting, Picsart was originally founded as a photo and video editing app we use to enhance our everyday life before uploading them to various social media platforms. As its user numbers continue growing, the company began exploring options for incorporating its easy-to-use editing tools into other applications and services. Now, […]
GCP – Innovating Japanese Customer Service at TEPCO Energy Partner with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s article comes from Mr. Yoshitaka Iizuka, Team Leader of the DX Promotion Office at TEPCO Energy Partner, Inc., a group company of Tokyo Electric Power Holdings, Inc. (TEPCO). Iizuka is leading a comprehensive digital transformation (DX) initiative based on Google Maps Platform. He strives to realize the company’s vision of becoming a […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup enables automatic updates for EC2 launch agents
Today, AWS Systems Manager announces auto-update support for the EC2 Windows, Linux and Mac launch agents in Quick Setup. Up to now, customers only had documentation available to help them manually install and upgrade their EC2 launch agent. With this launch, customers can now enable automatic upgrades with a few clicks in the console in […]
AWS – Announcing simplified cross-account management of operational issues in AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter
Today, OpsCenter, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces simplified cross-account management of operational issues (OpsItems). In just a few clicks, customers can configure OpsCenter to centrally create, view, and manage operational issues across all accounts in their AWS Organization. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon VPC CNI now supports IPv6 Egress for Pods in IPv4 enabled Kubernetes Clusters
Starting with Amazon VPC CNI version 1.13, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) allows clusters in IPv4 address space to connect with end points in IPv6 address space. This enables customers to operate services in mixed IPv4 and IPv6 environments while migrating to IPv6 only address space-based services. The native support in Amazon VPC CNI reduces […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose adds support for data stream delivery to Amazon Redshift Serverless
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose can now deliver streaming data to Amazon Redshift Serverless. With few clicks, you can more easily ingest, transform, and reliably deliver streaming data into Amazon Redshift Serverless without building and managing your own data ingestion and delivery infrastructure. Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service that automatically scales to match […]