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AWS – Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is now available in 4 additional regions
Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) and Middle East (UAE). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Rekognition launches face occlusion detection to improve identity verification accuracy
Today, AWS announced the general availability of face occlusion detection to improve face verification accuracy. The new FaceOccluded attribute in Amazon Rekognition DetectFaces and IndexFaces APIs detects if the face in an image is partially captured or not fully visible due to overlapping objects, clothing, and body parts. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup supports cross-Region backups in four new Regions
Today, we are announcing cross-Region backup support for Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With cross-Region backups, you can store a copy of your backup data in AWS Regions other than where your primary backups are stored, helping you meet business continuity, disaster recovery, and compliance requirements. AWS Backup […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Metric Streams adds support for filtering by metric name
Amazon CloudWatch announces support for filtering by metric name on CloudWatch Metric Streams. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new capability you can now select the specific metrics you want to stream, providing additional filtering controls. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches dataset parameters to optimize slicing and dicing experiences
We are introducing a new kind of parameter in Amazon QuickSight that will help users create interactive experiences in their dashboards. With Dataset Parameters, authors can optimize the experience and load time of dashboards that are connected-live to external SQL-based sources. When readers interact with their data, the selection and actions they make in controls, […]
GCP – Backup for GKE – concepts – Part 1 – how it works
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a scalable and fully automated Kubernetes service for running containerized applications and stateful/stateless workloads. However, what happens if your deployment fails, data gets corrupted, or you want to restore a snapshot of a cluster to a cluster in another region? Introducing Backup for GKE! Your solution for config and volume […]
GCP – Introducing Active Assist recommendations for service limits (quotas)
We are excited to introduce service limit (quota) recommender, a new feature from Active Assist that helps you track and act on quota limits. The recommender analyzes your quota utilization and provides you with actionable and automatic recommendations to review quotas that have high utilization and are likely to run out. This feature is available […]
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 […]