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AWS – Amazon SNS now supports AWS X-Ray active tracing to visualize, analyze, and debug application performance
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), a messaging service that provides high-throughput, push-based, many-to-many messaging between distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven serverless applications, now supports active tracing with AWS X-Ray. Customers can now view traces that flow through Amazon SNS topics to destination services, such as Amazon Simple Queue Service, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Kinesis […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless now supports HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, and PCI DSS workloads
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that allows data engineers to process and analyze large datasets using popular open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive without having to configure, manage, and scale clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon GameLift expands SDK support to Go and .NET 6
We are excited to announce the update to the Amazon GameLift Server SDK to include support for Go and .NET 6 to integrate with your Windows or Linux game servers. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed solution that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. With this release, Amazon […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of the AWS CRT HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
The AWS Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client is now available in the AWS SDK for 2.x. The AWS CRT HTTP Client is the asynchronous, non-blocking HTTP client built on top of the AWS Common Runtime libraries. It is an alternative to the Netty implementation of the SdkAsyncHttpClient interface that can be used to communicate with […]
AWS – AWS launches AWS SAM connectors as a resource parameter
Serverless application developers can now use the new Connectors attribute available in AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to simplify authoring connectors and help keep SAM templates readable and maintainable over time. Previously, SAM customers could only define SAM connectors as a AWS::Serverless::Connector resource. While these resources simplified granting the appropriate level of access to […]
AWS – Announcing enhanced I/O multiplexing for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 7 now includes enhanced I/O multiplexing, which delivers significant improvements to throughput and latency at scale. Enhanced I/O multiplexing is ideal for throughput-bound workloads with multiple client connections, and its benefits scale with the level of workload concurrency. As an example, when using r6g.xlarge node and running 5200 concurrent clients, you […]
GCP – Running Batch with Nvidia Clara Parabricks
Running a lot of genomic pipelines can be challenging. Adding GPUs to the solution is harder. In this blog, we are presenting the whole solution of running multiple jobs with GPU and Batch. As Nvidia Clara Parabricks is available in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace, you can easily spin up a single VM with Parabricks […]
GCP – Beany builds on Google Cloud to revolutionize accounting and financial planning for small businesses
Many people start a small business that aligns with their passions, but soon discover the day-to-day running of a business is very different than anticipated. Dealing with accounting, finance, and other daily activities can quickly overwhelm even the most promising of new businesses. Recognizing the unique challenges facing small businesses, we foundedBeany. With our personalized […]
GCP – Scott Penberthy lost his mom to cancer — he’s now committed to using his passion for AI to advance healthcare
Editor’s note: Scott Penberthy is the Director of Applied AI in Google Cloud’s Office of the CTO (OCTO), a team that works with some of Google Cloud’s largest customers to solve their most complex business problems and advise Google on emerging trends across industries, geographies, and technology. A self-described student of deep learning, he’s working […]
GCP – How Anthos helps improve your platform and application security and governance
Security has become a critical component in every modern application and platform today. As IT admins try to implement security policies required to protect applications across distributed platforms, they often run into issues such as the lack of effective policy enforcement and lack of visibility into the policy violations. In addition, whenever there is a […]