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Azure Now Supports Database as a Service Couchbase Capella
A cloud database platform company Couchbase recently announced that its Capella database as a Service (DBaaS) offering as a fully-managed service is available on Azure.
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AWS Patches Undocumented APIs Bypassing CloudTrail Event Logging
AWS recently patched undocumented IAM APIs that bypassed CloudTrail logging. The vulnerability allowed a malicious user to perform reconnaissance activities on IAM without recording events in CloudTrail or being detected by Amazon GuardDuty.
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AWS OpenSearch Serverless Now Generally Available
Amazon recently announced the general availability of OpenSearch Serverless, a new serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch service, which automatically provisions and scales the underlying resources for faster data ingestion and query responses.
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AWS Gives Developers More Control over Lambda Function Runtime with Runtime Management Controls
AWS recently introduced runtime management controls, which provide more visibility and control when Lambda applies runtime updates to functions.
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Optimized Reads and Optimized Writes Improve Amazon RDS Performances for MySQL Compatible Engines
AWS recently introduced RDS Optimized Reads and RDS Optimized Writes, which are designed to enhance the performance of MySQL and MariaDB workloads running on RDS. These new functionalities can improve query performances and provide higher write throughput but are available on a limited subset of instances and have multiple prerequisites.
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AWS Lambda Now Supports Maximum Concurrency for SQS as Event Source
AWS Lambda now provides a way to control the maximum number of concurrent functions invoked by Amazon SQS as an event source. Setting the Maximum Concurrency, developers can determine the concurrency of the functions processing messages in individual SQS queues, simplifying the scalability of serverless applications.
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Google Delivers Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure Reliability Guide
Google recently delivered a cloud infrastructure reliability guide combining best practices and expertise from its engineers for its customers.
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Log Analytics Feature in Cloud Logging Now Generally Available
Google recently made its Cloud Logging Log Analytics feature generally available (GA), allowing users to search, aggregate, and transform all log data types, including application, network, and audit logs.
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Amazon Athena Now Supports Apache Spark Engine
Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications.
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Google Address Validation API Is Generally Available to Improve Address Accuracy
Google recently announced the general availability of the Address Validation API. The new feature of the Google Maps Platform validates an address, standardizes it for mailing, and determines the best-known geocode location for it.
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AWS Releases SimSpace Weaver for Real-Time Spatial Simulations
AWS recently released SimSpace Weaver, a managed option to run real-time spatial simulations across multiple EC2 instances. Distributing simulation workloads, the service can handle large real-world environments, crowd simulations, and immersive interactive experiences.
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Google Storage Transfer Service Now Supports Serverless Real-Time Replication Capability
Recently Google announced the preview support for event-driven transfer capability for its Storage Transfer Service (STS), which allows users to move data from AWS S3 to Cloud Storage and copy data between multiple Cloud Storage buckets.
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Amazon S3 Encrypts All New Objects with AES-256
Since January 5th, Amazon S3 encrypts all new objects by default with AES-256 to protect data at rest. S3 automatically applies server-side encryption using Amazon S3-managed keys for each new object, unless a different encryption option is specified.
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AWS Introduces Step Functions Distributed Map for Large-Scale Parallel Data Processing
AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets interactive and highly parallel serverless data processing workflows.
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Zero Trust Access to Corporate Applications with AWS Verified Access
At re:Invent 2022, AWS released a new enterprise application connectivity service, Verified Access. The service provides Zero Trust access to enterprise web applications by employing endpoints and policies to authenticate and authorize user requests against identity providers or device management systems. Verified Access is currently in public preview in 10 AWS regions.