February 2024

In a bid to make cloud computing more cost-effective for businesses in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced a significant reduction in prices for its Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server. Specifically, the On-Demand prices for RDS instances running on the R5 and R6i Standard Edition have been …

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Amazon EMR Serverless is a groundbreaking new option in Amazon EMR that is revolutionizing the way data engineers and analysts run petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud. With EMR Serverless, users can run Apache Spark and Apache Hive applications without the hassle of configuring, optimizing, tuning, or managing clusters. This guide will delve into the …

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In recent years, the use of machine learning (ML) algorithms and generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications has become increasingly prevalent in various industries. With the rise of ML-enabled applications, the need for efficient and scalable databases to support these applications has also grown. Amazon DocumentDB, a fully managed document database service by AWS, has now …

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In the world of cloud computing, monitoring is a crucial aspect of maintaining the health and performance of your applications and services. With AWS CloudWatch, you can monitor your AWS resources in real-time, set up alarms for specific metrics, and take automated actions based on those alarms. Recently, AWS introduced new alarm guidelines and console …

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Today, AWS is excited to announce the general availability of pull request approval rules in Amazon CodeCatalyst. This highly anticipated feature allows CodeCatalyst customers to configure and enforce a minimum number of pull request approvals required before source code can be merged to the destination branch. Pull request approval rules in CodeCatalyst empower development teams …

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Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) is now available in the AWS Canada West (Calgary) region, bringing serverless, fully elastic file storage to organizations in this area. This guide will provide a comprehensive overview of Amazon EFS, including its key features, benefits, and best practices for optimizing its use. We will also explore the technical …

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Introduction¶ Amazon MSK, a fully managed service for Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect, provides a seamless experience for building and operating applications that utilize Apache Kafka as a data store. With the introduction of in-place version upgrades for Tiered Storage enabled clusters, Amazon MSK offers enhanced flexibility and ease of use. This guide aims to …

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Introduction¶ In today’s digital age, security and compliance are of utmost concern for public and private sector organizations. To address these concerns, AWS offers Wickr, an advanced end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaboration application. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the features, benefits, and technical aspects of AWS Wickr. Additionally, we will discuss the integration …

Guide to AWS Wickr: Secure and Compliant Communication on AWS Europe (Stockholm) region Read More »

Are you a customer using Amazon Data Firehose to deliver data streams to Amazon S3? Do you want to customize the time zone format for your bucket prefixes in Amazon S3? Look no further! In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the process of selecting time zones for bucket prefixes in Amazon Data …

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Introduction¶ On November 15th, 2023, our team launched an enhanced co-sell experience (ACE) with solution tagging capability on opportunities. This feature has proven to be a game-changer for partners, enabling them to track and manage different offerings related to an opportunity. Now, we are taking it a step further with the introduction of multi-solution tagging. …

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