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Atlassian Exceeds 99.9999% of Availability Using Sidecars and Highly Fault-Tolerant Design
Atlassian recently published how it exceeded 99.9999% of availability with its Tenant Context Service. Atlassian achieved this high availability by implementing highly-autonomous client sidecars, able to proactively shield themselves from complete AWS region failures. Sidecars query multiple services concurrently to accomplish this goal and ensure that requests are entirely isolated internally.
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Amazon Switched Compression from Gzip to Zstd for Own Service Data
A tweet from Adrian Cockcroft, former VP at Amazon, recently highlighted the benefits of switching from gzip to Zstandard compression at Amazon and triggered discussions in the community about the compression algorithm. Other large corporations, including Twitter and Honeycomb, shared interesting gains using zstd.
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Terraform 1.3 Release Introduces Simplified Refactoring Experience
HashiCorp has announced the release of the 1.3 version of Terraform. This release introduces optional object type attributes with defaults and expands the capabilities of moved blocks.
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AWS Glue Now Supports Crawler History
AWS recently launched support for histories of AWS Glue Crawlers, which allows the interrogation of Crawler executions and associated schema changes for the last 12 months.
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Amazon Is Adding Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex
Amazon is introducing the Visual Conversation Builder for Amazon Lex, a drag and drop interface to visualize and build conversation flows in a no-code environment. The Visual Conversation Builder greatly simplifies bot design.
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Amazon SNS Introduces Message Data Protection to Discover Sensitive Data in Motion
Amazon SNS recently announced the public preview of message data protection. Identifying PII data and other sensitive information in flight, the new SNS feature leverages pattern matching, machine learning models, and data protection policies to simplify data protection and compliance in applications that exchange high volumes of data.
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Oracle Announces General Availability of MySQL Heatwave on AWS
Oracle recently announced the general availability (GA) of MySQL Heatwave, a service that combines OLTP, analytics, machine learning, and machine learning-based automation within a single instance on AWS.
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AWS IAM Identity Center Introduces APIs to Manage Users and Groups at Scale
AWS recently introduced IAM Identity Center APIs to create users and groups at scale. Administrators can use these new APIs to manage identities programmatically and gain visibility into users in the Identity Center directory.
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Amazon SageMaker Provides New Built-in TensorFlow Image Classification Algorithms
Amazon is announcing a new built-in TensorFlow algorithm for image classification in Amazon Sagemaker. The supervised learning algorithm supports transfer learning for many pre-trained models available in TensorFlow Hub.
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AWS Open Sources Event Ruler
AWS recently announced that Event Ruler, the component managing the routing rules of Amazon EventBridge, is now open source. The project is a new option for developers in need to match lots of patterns, policies, or expressions against any amount of events in near real-time.
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AWS Adds New Intrinsic Functions for Step Functions
AWS recently expanded support for manipulating input and output data by adding 14 new intrinsic functions for AWS Step Functions to simplify data processing, reduce calls to downstream services, and write less code.
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AWS Adds VMware Cloud on AWS Integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS and VMware recently announced VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Designed for data-intensive VMware workloads, the new option is a supplemental datastore for VMware Cloud on AWS, reducing storage costs and simplifying migration to the cloud for enterprises.
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Near-Optimal Scaling of Large Deep Network Training on Public Cloud
A recently published study, MiCS, provides experimental evidence that the infrastructure used to carry out model training should be taken into account, especially for large deep neural networks trained on the public cloud. The article shows distributing the model weights unevenly between GPUs decreases inter-node communication overhead on AWS V100 and A100 instances.
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Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3
Microsoft recently announced the ability to natively ingest data from Amazon S3 into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The new feature simplifies multi-cloud data analytics deployments, bringing data from Amazon S3 to Azure, without relying on custom ETL pipelines.
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Cloud Providers Target Middle East: AWS Adds Region in the United Arab Emirates, Microsoft in Qatar
Amazon recently announced a new region in the United Arab Emirates, its second one in the Middle East. Microsoft just opened its first global datacenter region in Qatar where Google plans to open a new region too.