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GCP – Monitor gce instances with prometheus and ops agent
If you’ve worked in the operations space for the last 5+ years, you’ve likely heard of or have started using Prometheus. The proliferation of Prometheus for time series metrics formatting, querying and storage across the open source world and enterprise IT has been shockingly fast, especially with teams using Kubernetes platforms like Google Kubernetes Engine […]
GCP – What Data Pipeline Architecture should I use?
Data is essential to any application and is used in the design of an efficient pipeline for delivery and management of information throughout an organization. Generally, define a data pipeline when you need to process data during its life cycle. The pipeline can start where data is generated and stored in any format. The pipeline […]
AWS – SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now adds three new completion criteria for tuning jobs
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports three new completion criteria to help you customize your tuning jobs based on your desired trade-off between accuracy, cost, and runtime. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service simplifies remote reindex for VPC domains
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds a new connection mode for cross-cluster connection, simplifying the setup required to remote reindex between a local domain and remote VPC domains. Remote reindex enables you to migrate data from a source domain to a target domain. Remote reindex is also useful when you have to upgrade your clusters across multiple […]
AWS – EC2 Hibernate now supports Amazon EC2 C6i, C6id, M6i, M6id, and I3en instances
You can now hibernate Elastic Block Storage-backed Amazon EC2 I3en, M6i, M6id, C6i, and C6id instances. Hibernation provides you with the convenience of pausing your instances and resuming them later from a saved state. Hibernation is just like closing and opening your laptop lid — your application will start right from where it left off. […]
GCP – Save the Date: Google Cloud Next ‘23 is back August 29 – 31
Google Cloud Next is back in person August 29–31, 2023, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Make the most of this must-attend event, where you can: Learn about the latest Google advancements in AI, data, security, productivity, and more Explore keynotes, breakout sessions, and demos Take part in hands-on labs, training, and certification opportunities […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now simplifies metric extraction from structured logs
Amazon CloudWatch now supports metric extraction from structured logs using Embedded Metric Format (EMF) without requiring customers to provide special header declaration while publishing logs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena releases data source connector for Google Cloud Storage
Starting today, you can use Amazon Athena to query data in Google Cloud Storage. With Athena’s data source connectors, you can run SQL queries on data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources without the need to move data to S3 or learn a new query dialect. Google Cloud Storage is a managed service […]
AWS – AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingestion of activity events from non-AWS sources
AWS CloudTrail Lake now supports ingesting activity events from non-AWS sources, making CloudTrail Lake a single location to immutably store user and API activity events for auditing and security investigations across AWS and hybrid environments. You can consolidate activity events from AWS and non-AWS sources – such as in-house applications and SaaS applications running in […]
AWS – Amazon MemoryDB for Redis Announces 99.99% Availability Service Level Agreement
Amazon MemoryDB for Redis now offers an availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) of 99.99% when using a Multi-Availability Zone (Multi-AZ) configuration. Previously, MemoryDB offered an SLA of 99.9% for Multi-AZ configurations. With this launch, MemoryDB has updated its Multi-AZ SLA to provide 10x higher levels of availability. Read More for the details.