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Azure – General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer
Azure Data Explorer now supports ingestion of data from many receivers via the OpenTelemetry exporter. Read More for the details.
GCP – Backup & Disaster Recovery strategies for BigQuery
BigQuery is increasingly becoming the landing zone of choice for many customers’ data in Google cloud. BigQuery is designed to provide high data durability. Data is written synchronously to 2 availability zones and within these zones, data is written using erasure encoding to make sure data can be recovered from multiple disk failures. As of […]
GCP – The new Google Cloud Region in Israel is now open
Today, we are excited to announce that the new Google Cloud region in Israel is open. We’ll be celebrating the launch at an event in Tel Aviv on November 9 — register to join us. Israel is known as the startup nation, and has long been a hub of technology innovation for startups and Google […]
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) region.
Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the Middle East (UAE) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension
Today, AWS launched the AWS Parameters and Secrets Lambda Extension, a convenient method for AWS Lambda users to retrieve parameters from AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and secrets from AWS Secrets Manager. AWS Lambda customers can leverage this extension to improve their application performance as it decreases the latency and the cost of retrieving parameters […]
AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service now includes web and mobile SDKs for IVS stream chat
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now provides SDKs for stream chat with support for web, Android and iOS. The Amazon IVS stream chat SDKs support common functions for chat room resource management, sending, and receiving messages, and managing chat room participants. Visit the Amazon IVS chat documentation to learn more. Using the Amazon IVS stream […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto October 2022 quarterly updates
On October 18th, 2022 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 19.0.1, 17.0.5, 11.0.17, 8u352 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Quick build support for time-series forecast models
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces Quick build support for time-series forecasting models, enabling faster prototyping and experimentation to select the best performing machine learning (ML) model. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having […]
AWS – Announcing new AWS Amplify Library for Swift, now with support for both iOS and macOS
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amplify Library for Swift (previously Amplify iOS)! This release allows Swift developers to easily build cloud-connected iOS apps. Since its Developer Preview release in April 2022, we have re-written our APIs to support idiomatic Swift features like async/await that makes it easier for developers to […]
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized delivers double the compute capacity and is now fully SSD NVMe storage
AWS announced an enhanced Snowball Edge Compute Optimized with expanded compute, memory and storage options. The AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device doubled the compute capacity up to 104 vCPUs, doubled the memory capacity up to 416GB RAM, and is now fully SSD with 28TB NVMe storage. AWS Snowball Edge Compute Optimized is a secure, […]