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AWS – Amazon EC2 Launch Templates now support AWS Systems Manager parameters for AMIs
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Launch Templates support AWS Systems Manager parameters for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). This simplifies automation and reduces misconfiguration likelihood by eliminating the need to create a new launch template version for every AMI update. Read More for the details.
GCP – Answering the Top-25 most asked Google Cloud questions of 2022
Google Cloud is on an exceptional growth trajectory. With our investments in multicloud and AI/ML, to sustainable infrastructure, industry solutions, and technology we are proud that our customers trust Google Cloud solutions to digitally transform their business. We deeply understand today’s technology requirements and the need to continuously innovate. In addition, we always listen to […]
GCP – Optimize Cloud Composer via Better Airflow DAGs
Hosting, orchestrating, and managing data pipelines is a complex process for any business. Google Cloud offers Cloud Composer – a fully managed workflow orchestration service – enabling businesses to create, schedule, monitor, and manage workflows that span across clouds and on-premises data centers. Cloud Composer is built on the popular Apache Airflow open source project […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Tamr delivers Master Data Management at scale and what this means for a data product strategy
Master data is a holistic view of your key business entities, providing a consistent set of identifiers and attributes that give context to the business data that matters most to your organization. It’s about ensuring that clean, accurate, curated data – the best available – is accessible throughout the company to manage operations and make […]
GCP – Building an automated serverless deployment pipeline with Cloud Build
You’ve got a shiny new application ready to deploy to the cloud. After researching your options, you land on using Cloud Run with Cloud Build to build and push your containerized application code to an Artifact Registry repository. In three steps, using a Dockerfile and a Cloud Build configuration you build your container, push it […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Europe (Spain) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Microsoft Yammer Connector to enable messaging search
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 use the Amazon Kendra Microsoft (MS) Yammer Connector to index and search messages from MS Yammer. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 File Gateway increases maximum file shares per gateway from 10 to 50
Amazon S3 File Gateway increases the number of supported file shares per gateway from 10 to 50 file shares. Previously, a single gateway could only support up to 10 file shares. With this release, gateway admins can optimize resources, and save time and money by creating and managing up to 50 file shares from a […]
AWS – Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports DOS attributes
Amazon S3 File Gateway now supports capturing, retaining, and enforcing DOS attributes listed in file metadata. Previously, files copied to the gateway were copied without this common metadata (Archive, Hidden, Read Only, and System). Support for DOS attributes is intended for users who want to hide files or folders, enforce read only access at the […]
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator announces increased quotas for target resources
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports higher resource quotas and quota adjustment using AWS Service Quotas. Quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum values for the resources, actions, and items in an AWS account. Previously, a maximum of 5 resources could be targeted by an FIS action. Now, you can adjust the […]