Welcome to above the clouds
AWS – Amazon EMR Serverless is now generally available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Amazon EMR Serverless, a new serverless deployment option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy and cost effective for data engineers and analysts to run petabyte-scale data analytics in the cloud. Amazon EMR is a big data solution that you can use to run large-scale distributed […]
GCP – Learn how Google Maps Platform partners can help you meet your business goals
At Google Maps Platform, we build end-to-end solutions and low-code tools that help you solve technical challenges and meet your business needs. We also work with a diverse group of partners who specialize in helping companies of all sizes and backgrounds get the most out of our products. In last month’s Maps OnAir, partner sales […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports AWS PrivateLink for management of buckets and access points
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports AWS PrivateLink, providing direct access to manage your S3 on Outposts storage capacity via a private endpoint within your virtual private network. This allows you to simplify your internal network architecture and perform management operations on your S3 storage by using private IP addresses in your Virtual Private Cloud […]
AWS – Announcing Geofence Management in Amplify Geo (JavaScript), powered by Amazon Location Service
Today we are announcing the general availability of Geofences for Amplify Geo. Amplify Geo enables frontend developers to add location-aware features to their web applications. Developers looking to display geometric boundaries or Geofences on a map, can now implement a complete Geofence management solution in minutes using the cloud-connected UI widget and APIs from Amplify […]
GCP – Automate identity document processing with Document AI
How many times have you filled out forms requesting personal information? It’s probably too many times to count. When online and signed in, you can save a lot of time thanks to your browser’s autofill feature. In other cases, you often have to provide the same data manually, again and again. The first Document AI […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for multi-lingual audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce automatic language identification support for multi-lingual audio in batch mode. If your audio recording contains more than one language, you can enable multi-language identification, which identifies all languages […]
GCP – Google Cloud enables inclusive financial services with Black-owned business initiative
In June of 2020, Sundar Pichai outlined a number of commitments Google will make to racial equity, starting with the Black+ community in the United States. As part of this initiative, we formed a team at Google Cloud to help black entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their businesses with cloud technology. Racial equity is inextricably […]
GCP – “Take that leap of faith” Meet the Googler helping customers create financial inclusion
What brought you to Google? Honestly, the opportunity fell in my lap. I had just graduated from NYU with an MS in business ops and hospitality, and a staffing agency for Google reached out—they were looking for hospitality majors to support recruitment, hosting an engineer for the day as they walked through their interview process. […]
AWS – Announcing Metered Billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs
We are announcing the launch of metered billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs, which gives data providers the ability to license APIs to subscribers on a pay-as-you-go basis. AWS Data Exchange for APIs enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products listed on AWS Data Exchange. This new feature allows data […]
Azure – General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics
The new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series are well suited for high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data intensive applications and more. Read More for the details.