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GCP – What five women mapmakers think of the future of geospatial services
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, we’re proud to shine a light on women at Google making a difference in the geospatial industry and on Google Maps Platform. We asked a few of our mapmakers to share their thoughts, insights, and unique perspective on the future of mapping and geospatial services. Here are […]
GCP – Squarespace reduces number of escalations by 87 percent with analytics lakehouse on Google Cloud
Editor’s note:Today we hear from Squarespace, an all-in-one website building and ecommerce platform, about its migration from a self-hosted Hadoop ecosystem to Google Cloud, running BigQuery, Dataproc and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Read on to learn about how they planned and executed the migration, and what kinds of results they’re seeing. Imagine you are a […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra launches Featured Results
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. Read More for the details.
AWS – EC2 Image Builder adds real-time build tracking and improves build speeds for image pipelines
Customers can now track the current build status and image build steps for their image pipelines directly in EC2 Image Builder. This capability makes it easier for you to track image builds and troubleshoot build failures. This release also consolidates logs making it easier for you to audit and review builds. Additionally, workflow optimizations provide […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall announces support for ingress TLS inspection
AWS Network Firewall now supports Transport Layer Security (TLS) inspection for ingress VPC traffic. This new feature enables customers to decrypt, inspect, and re-encrypt TLS traffic without having to deploy and manage any additional network security infrastructure. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 61 new EC2 instance types
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 61 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include the latest generation general purpose instance families from both Intel and AMD (M6in, M6idn), compute optimized instance families (C6in), and memory optimized instance family (R6in, R6idn). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS WickrGov now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS WickrGov is now generally available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, giving government customers and their partners the benefits of AWS Wickr. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the ACK Controllers for Amazon EventBridge and Pipes
Today, AWS announces the general availability of the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for EventBridge and Pipes. This launch allows you to manage EventBridge resources, such as event buses, rules, and pipes, using the Kubernetes API and resource model (custom resource definitions). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 22.2
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle now supports version 22.2 of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 19c & 21c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. To learn more about the latest features of APEX 22.2, please refer to Oracle’s documentation. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch now supports user-defined pod labels on Amazon EKS
Today, we are introducing a new capability for AWS Batch to provide user-defined pod labels for jobs that run on your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters. Labels are key-value pairs that are used to specify identifying attributes of objects that are designed to be meaningful and relevant to users. Using labels, customers can […]