Today, we’re announcing the availability, in preview, of a new capability in Amazon Data Firehose that captures changes made in databases such as PostgreSQL and MySQL and replicates the updates to Apache Iceberg tables on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Apache Iceberg is a high-performance open-source table format for performing big data analytics. Apache…
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is launching a new capability allowing security teams to centrally manage root access for member accounts in AWS Organizations. You can now easily manage root credentials and perform highly privileged actions. Managing root user credentials at scale For a long time, Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts were provisioned with highly…
Today, I am happy to introduce resource control policies (RCPs) – a new authorization policy managed in AWS Organizations that can be used to set the maximum available permissions on resources within your entire organization. They are a type of preventative control that help you establish a data perimeter in your AWS environment and restrict…
We are excited to share that Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Application Platform. Microsoft Azure’s comprehensive cloud application platform spans Azure App Service, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions to support application modernization and AI application innovation, with seamless integration with Azure AI, Azure databases, and…
With the increased adoption of cloud-native technologies, containers and Kubernetes have become the backbone of modern application deployments. Microservices-based container workloads are easier to scale, more portable, and resource-efficient. With Kubernetes managing these workloads, organizations can deploy advanced AI and machine learning applications across diverse compute resources, significantly improving operational productivity at scale. With this…
I have been following the progress of AWS BuilderCards for several years. Players of all skill levels use the cards to learn about AWS in a fun and engaging way, competing (in a friendly fashion) to combine their cards to form architectures, gaining knowledge and scoring points as they play: To date, more than 15,000…