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AWS – Optimize resources across your organization using AWS Compute Optimizer from a designated account
AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Starting today, you can designate a member account in your organization to retrieve Compute Optimizer recommendations and manage Compute Optimizer preferences, giving you greater flexibility to […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now available in Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions.
Amazon WorkSpaces Web is now generally available in AWS Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), and Europe (London) regions. Creating a WorkSpaces Web portal in a local region provides a more responsive experience for users when streaming web content. It also enables customers to meet local data residency obligations. WorkSpaces Web is now available in a total […]
AWS – AWS Config now supports 20 new resource types
AWS Config now supports 20 new resource types including Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Route 53, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), AWS Global Accelerator, AWS Glue, and others. For the full list of newly supported resource types see [1]. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Microsoft Azure available from new cloud region in Qatar
The first hyperscale datacenter region in Qatar is now available. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Microsoft Dev Box
Self-service, high-performance workstations in the cloud that are preconfigured and ready-to-code for developers’ projects and tasks. Read More for the details.
GCP – Best practices of migrating Hive ACID Tables to BigQuery
Are you looking to migrate a large amount of Hive ACID tables to BigQuery? ACID enabled Hive tables support transactions that accept updates and delete DML operations. In this blog, we will explore migrating Hive ACID tables to BigQuery. The approach explored in this blog works for both compacted (major / minor) and non-compacted Hive […]
GCP – How autonomic data security can help define cloud’s future
“Ninety percent of all data today was created in the last two years—that’s 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day,” according to business data analytics company Domo. That would be a mind-bending statistic, except that it’s already five years old. As data usage has undergone drastic expansion and changes in the past five years, so […]
GCP – Controlling your BigQuery costs
Are you worried about controlling your BigQuery costs across multiple projects? In this blog, you will learn about the different guardrails BigQuery provides to limit costs, and monitor BigQuery consumption. Also, learn how to design the warehouse that scales seamlessly while keeping costs under your control. 1. Set up user-level quota and project-level quota can […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize allows rule-based promotions in recommendations
Amazon Personalize now allows you to promote specific items in all users’ recommendations based on rules that align with your business goals. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Personalize currently recommends relevant items for each user or similar items to a given item […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches support for range queries on dynamic filters
Amazon Personalize now supports comparison operators ( =, <, <=, >, >=) for dynamic filters to provide flexibility in applying your business rules to recommendations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Dynamic filters currently allow you to change filter criteria at the time of […]