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AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Wickr
AWS Wickr is an end-to-end encrypted, enterprise communications service that offers advanced security features and facilitates one-to-one chats, group messaging, calling, file sharing, screen sharing, and more. The service is now generally available. With AWS Wickr, organizations can collaborate more safely than with consumer-grade messaging applications. Advanced security and administrative controls help organizations meet data […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Glue 4.0
We’re pleased to announce the launch of AWS Glue version 4.0, a new version of AWS Glue that accelerates data integration workloads in AWS. AWS Glue 4.0 upgrades the Spark engines to Apache Spark 3.3.0 and Python 3.10. Glue 4.0 gives customers the latest Spark and Python releases so they can develop, run, and scale […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports configuration items from AWS Config
AWS CloudTrail Lake now integrates with AWS Config to support ingestion and query of configuration items. Now you can query and analyze both configuration items and CloudTrail activity logs in CloudTrail Lake, thereby simplifying and streamlining your security and compliance investigations. CloudTrail Lake enables security teams to perform retrospective investigations by helping answer who made […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Braket Algorithm Library where you can now access pre-built quantum algorithms
Today we are announcing the Braket Algorithm Library, an open-source, GitHub repository that provides researchers ready-to-use Python implementations for a set of popular quantum algorithms, reducing the time it takes to get started on Amazon Braket. Amazon Braket, the quantum computing service from AWS, provides customers access to quantum computers and managed simulators. Researchers interested […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces integration with Informatica Data Loader tool to accelerate data uploads at no cost
AWS announces Informatica Data Loader for Amazon Redshift, allowing you to run high-speed and high-volume data loading to Amazon Redshift for free. This integration allows you to launch and operate Informatica Data Loader within your Amazon Redshift console and easily copy data without having to install additional components or write code. You can upload large […]
AWS – AWS Config rules now support proactive compliance
AWS Config announces the ability to proactively check for compliance with AWS Config rules prior to resource provisioning. Customers use AWS Config to track the configuration changes made to their cloud resources and check if those resources match their desired configurations through a feature known as AWS Config rules. Proactive compliance allows customers to evaluate […]
AWS – AWS Network Manager introduces real-time performance monitoring for the AWS Global Network
Using AWS Network Manager, you can now monitor the real-time and historical performance of the AWS Global Network for operational and planning purposes. AWS Network Manager provides aggregate network latency between AWS Regions, Availability Zones and within each Availability Zone, allowing you to better understand how your application performance relates to the performance of the […]
AWS – AWS Glue for Apache Spark Native support for Data Lake Frameworks (Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake)
AWS Glue for Apache Spark now supports three open source data lake storage frameworks: Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, and Linux Foundation Delta Lake. These frameworks allow you to read and write data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in a transactionally consistent manner. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration service that makes […]
GCP – Archive Data: Old or historic?
To be “historic,” an event or place must be associated with a degree of importance that makes it worthy of notice, study, or preservation. To be “old” merely means something has been around a long time or occurred long ago. Regulations and compliance enforce companies notably Insurance, finance, healthcare to preserve their customer, applications and transaction […]
GCP – Workflows patterns and best practices – Part 2
This is part 2 of a three-part series of posts, in which we summarize Workflows and service orchestration patterns. You can apply these patterns to better take advantage of Workflows and service orchestration on Google Cloud. In the first post, we introduced some general tips and tricks, as well as patterns for event-driven orchestrations, parallel […]