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GCP – Networking 101 Google Cloud reference sheet 2023 v2: Networking basics
In 2022 I published the networking 101 Google Cloud sheet v1. The purpose of the sheet is to help you get a quick lightweight understanding of common networking terms and also services that exist on Google Cloud. In 2023, I have updated the sheet with more topics to include data center terms. Networking 101 Google […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Optimized Writes for MySQL and MariaDB supports m5d, r5d, and m6gd database instances
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Optimized Writes now supports m5d, r5d, and m6gd database (DB) instances. With Amazon RDS Optimized Writes, you can improve the write throughput for Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB workloads by up to 2x at no additional cost. This is especially useful for write-intensive database workloads, commonly found in applications, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now allows you to search for tags within an instance
Amazon Connect now provides the ability to search for existing tags within an instance, both programmatically via API and within the UI. When tagging resources, you can now search from pre-existing key:value pairs before creating new ones. For example, administrators can create a tag such as “Division:ConsumerCredit”, and users with permissions to tag resources within […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure NetApp Files double encryption at-rest
Azure NetApp Files now supports multiple encryption layers for increased data security. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Using a common port for public and private listeners
Easily manage public-facing and private-facing traffic on a common port. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint journeys now supports time zone estimation for endpoints
Amazon Pinpoint journeys now offers organizations the ability to estimate local time zone and allows them to contact customers at convenient times. Journeys are customized, multi-step engagement experience to send customer communication across channels such as SMS, email, push notifications, and voice. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Role Manager now provides CDK library to create fine-grained permissions within minutes
Today, we are excited to announce the CDK library for Amazon SageMaker Role Manager. This CDK library allows you to define activity based fine-grained permissions in minutes. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now supports ingesting events from Amazon Security Lake
Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion now allows you to ingest events from Amazon Security Lake in real-time, reducing the time taken to index your security data in Amazon OpenSearch Service and uncover valuable insights into potential security issues. Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from AWS environments, SaaS providers and on- premises into a purpose-built data […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports native Snowflake connectivity with new ETL capabilities (preview)
AWS Glue for Spark now supports the Snowflake connector for Spark out-of-the-box with new ETL capabilities enabling users to preview Snowflake data, use Snowflake SQL queries as a source, and write to new or existing Snowflake tables. AWS Glue Studio offers a visual extract-transform-and-load (ETL) interface that helps ETL developers to author, run, and monitor AWS […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables direct connection to Snowflake data
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables direct connection to Snowflake to prepare data and create features for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for ML from weeks to minutes using a visual interface in Amazon SageMaker Studio. Read More for the details.