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AWS – Amazon QuickSight supports billion-row dataset with SPICE
Amazon QuickSight now supports even larger SPICE datasets on the Enterprise Edition. Today, all new SPICE datasets can accommodate up to 1 billion rows (or 1TB) of data in the Enterprise Edition and 25 million rows (or 25GB) for Standard Edition. Before the launch, each SPICE dataset could hold up to 500 million rows and […]

AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection adds account name and other important details to its alert notifications
We are pleased to announce that as of today, customers will see additional details in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection’s console, alerting emails, and SNS topics posted to Slack and Chime. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon EMR Presto as a big data query engine
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and […]

AWS – AWS Cost Management introduces 1-click experience to refresh Savings Plans Recommendations
AWS Cost Management now offers a 1-click experience to refresh Savings Plans Recommendations, so you can generate new Savings Plans Recommendations at any time to reduce costs and accelerate your cloud optimization journey. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model offering lower prices compared to On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a specific usage commitment (measured in $/hour) […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager now displays AWS CloudTrail events associated with change requests
Starting today, customers can view AWS CloudTrail event logs of a change request using AWS Systems Manager Change Manager. The feature helps customers understand which resources were impacted by the change request which provides customers with more visibility into the change request process. Change Manager already helps customers request, approve, implement, and report on operational changes […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Proxy now supports creating proxies in Aurora Global Database primary and secondary regions
Amazon RDS Proxy, a fully managed, highly available database proxy for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), now supports creating proxies in Amazon Aurora Global Database primary and secondary regions. An Aurora Global Database is a single database that spans multiple AWS regions, enabling low latency global reads and disaster recovery from region-wide outages. With today’s […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now delivers to Logz.io
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose now supports streaming data delivery to Logz.io, enabling Logz.io users to ingest streaming metrics and logs without having to manage applications or write code. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Config enables drift detection in Config Recorder
AWS Config now supports configuration recorder as a configuration item. Configuration recorder must be enabled before AWS Config can detect changes to your resource configurations and capture these changes as configuration items. With this launch, you can now monitor configuration changes to the configuration recorder in your AWS account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (IPAM) is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. VPC IPAM makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads. Read More for the details.
GCP – Five steps to help make your software supply chain more secure
Today, we published a new Google research report on software supply chain security because we’ve seen a sharp rise in software supply chain attacks across almost every sector —and expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. We urge all organizations to act now to improve their software supply chain security. Among the report’s […]