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GCP – Scalability testing on Google Kubernetes Engine: Know before you go
Building large-scale systems can be challenging. Systems that are predictable and reliable on a smaller scale can become chaotic and uncontrollable when scaled up, revealing the limits of your design, exhibiting suboptimal performance, or even not working. To mitigate these effects, it’s important to test large-scale systems before deploying them in production. But predicting system […]
GCP – Transforming Japan’s food delivery industry with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s Note: Today’s blog features Yuichi Sato, Takayuki Niwa, and Tatsuo Mitani of menu corporation, a group company of Reazon Holdings. They explore how menu has used Google Maps Platform capabilities and integrated Mobility services into their food delivery applications, opening up a new frontier for the takeout and food delivery industry in Japan. “At […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 for Amazon EC2 instances on Snow
AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge devices. You can use AWS Snow Family devices to run storage, compute, and data-processing operations in locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited connectivity. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that […]
AWS – AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Today, we are launching AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customer to discover, prepare, and integrate their data at any scale. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Radar chart
Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20 and 22 operating systems
AWS Snow Family now supports Ubuntu 20.04 Long Term Support (LTS) and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized, and AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices. Ubuntu operating systems on Snow devices enable customers to deploy their edge compute workloads such as IoT, AI/ML, and Container workloads on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS […]
AWS – AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports VPC prefix lists to simplify routing policy management
AWS Outposts rack local gateway now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) prefix lists, simplifying management of your routing policies to connect to your on-premises network. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports software updates on AWS Snowcone
Today, AWS Snow Family announces a new feature that allows for easy updates to the system software of your AWS Snowcone devices. Now, you can request and download Snow system software updates from AWS. It is now possible to install software updates on your AWS Snowcone device using the AWS Snowball Edge client and without […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra Expanded Data Formats Support
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index documents of additional data types in addition to the five types previously supported. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports increasing storage size when creating read replicas and restoring databases from snapshots
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports increasing the allocated storage size when creating a read replica, when restoring a database from a snapshot, or when restoring a database instance to a point in time. This capability is supported on Amazon RDS for MariaDB, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL and Amazon […]