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AWS – Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP/3 powered by QUIC
Amazon CloudFront now supports HTTP version 3 (HTTP/3) requests over QUIC for end user connections. HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a user datagram protocol (UDP) based, stream-multiplexed, secure transport protocol that combines and improves upon the capabilities of existing transmission control protocol (TCP), TLS, and HTTP/2. HTTP/3 offers several benefits over previous HTTP versions, including faster response times […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports bulk import of historical measurement data
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports bulk import of historical measurements from sensors with the launch of three new APIs. The new bulk import APIs help customers to ingest historical data from their operations stored in diverse systems such as historians and time series databases in AWS IoT SiteWise. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional regions
Amazon RDS for SQL Server expands support for M6i, R6i and R5b instances in additional AWS regions. M6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris) and South America (Sao Paulo) regions. R6i instances are available today in Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), […]
AWS – Optimize resources across your organization using AWS Compute Optimizer from a designated account
AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Starting today, you can designate a member account in your organization to retrieve Compute Optimizer recommendations and manage Compute Optimizer preferences, giving you greater flexibility to […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now available in Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now generally available in AWS Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions. Creating a WorkSpaces Web portal in a local region provides a more responsive experience for users when streaming web content. It also enables customers to meet local data residency obligations. WorkSpaces Web is now available in a total […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 20 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 20 new resource types including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Glue, and others. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Qatar
The first hyperscale datacenter region in Qatar is now available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks. Read More for the details.
GCP – Best practices of migrating Hive ACID Tables to BigQuery
Are you looking to migrate a large amount of Hive ACID tables to BigQuery? ACID enabled Hive tables support transactions that accept updates and delete DML operations. In this blog, we will explore migrating Hive ACID tables to BigQuery. The approach explored in this blog works for both compacted (major / minor) and non-compacted Hive […]
GCP – How autonomic data security can help define cloud’s future
“Ninety percent of all data today was created in the last two years—that’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day,” according to business data analytics company Domo. That would be a mind-bending statistic, except that it’s already five years old. As data usage has undergone drastic expansion and changes in the past five years, so […]