I am working from London, UK, this week to record sessions for the upcoming Innovate EMEA online conference—more about this in a future Week In Review. While I was crossing the channel, I took the time to review what happened on AWS last week. Last Week’s Launches Here are some launches that got my attention: Seekable OCI for lazy loading container images. Seekable OCI (SOCI) is a technology open sourced by AWS that enables containers to launch faster by lazily loading the container image. SOCI works by creating an index of the files within an existing container image. This index is a key enabler to launching containers faster, providing the capability to extract an individual file from a container image…
Month: September 2022
More ways to drive sustainably and save money with Google Maps
Imagine you’re planning a day trip from your home in Athlone, Ireland over to Limerick – over an hour and a half journey. To decide how to get there, you open Google Maps — which offers multiple navigation options including walking, cycling and public transit directions. Given the length of the trip, it makes the most sense to drive, and you immediately search for the fastest route. But what if there were other options: A route that would take nine minutes more, but would save nearly 30% of your expected fuel consumption? Now rolling out: Eco-friendly routing across Europe This is now possible thanks to eco-friendly routing in Google Maps, which starts rolling out in nearly 40 countries across Europe…
AWS Week in Review – September 5, 2022
This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! As a new week begins, let’s quickly look back at the most significant AWS news from the previous seven days. Last Week’s Launches Here are the launches that got my attention last week: AWS announces open-sourced credentials-fetcher to simplify Microsoft AD access from Linux containers. You can find more in the What’s New post. AWS Step Functions now has 14 new intrinsic functions that help you process data more efficiently and make it easier to perform data processing tasks such as array manipulation, JSON object manipulation, and math functions within your workflows without having to…