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GCP – Google Cloud announces new products, partners and programs to accelerate sustainable transformations
At Google, we believe that the path to a sustainable future begins with the small decisions we make every day. But industries, governments and corporations are challenged to make these decisions without the right data or insights to inform them. Even a small choice for an organization — which raw material to choose for a […]
GCP – Enterprise Data Integration with Data Fusion
A challenge with data analytics is that the data is stored in many places and is in different formats. As a result, you often need to complete numerous integration activities before you can start to gain insights from your data. Data Fusion offers a one-stop-shop for all enterprise data integration activities including ingestion, ETL, ELT […]
AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) enables dynamic resizing for storage space
The storage space allocated to your Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) cluster will now dynamically decrease when you delete data from the cluster. Amazon DocumentDB is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Previously, when Amazon DocumentDB data was removed, […]
Azure – Public preview: Multiple backups per day for Azure Virtual Machines
Protect Azure Virtual Machines with mission critical applications with low recovery point objective. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription
Azure Storage is announcing public preview of the ability to create additional 5000 storage accounts per subscription per region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Twitter: gaining insights from Tweets with an API for Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Although Twitter has long been considered a treasure trove of data, the task of analyzing Tweets in order to understand what’s happening in the world, what people are talking about right now, and how this information can support business use cases has historically been highly technical and time-consuming. Not anymore. Twitter recently launched […]
GCP – Earn Google Cloud swag when you complete the #LearnToEarn challenge
The MLOps market is expected to grow to around $700m by 20251. With the Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification topping the list of highest paying IT certifications in 20212, there has never been a better time to grow your data and ML skills with Google Cloud. Introducing the Google Cloud #LearnToEarn challenge Starting today, […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure IoT Edge 1.3.0 release
The Azure IoT Edge release 1.3 is available with support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and requires that inbound/outbound communication use TLS 1.2 by default. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to migrate a group of individual instances to a stateful MIG using Python script
A GCP Compute Engine managed instance group (MIG) supports any VM configuration that you need, and it helps manage the VMs for you. For example, when a VM in a MIG unexpectedly stops running, the MIG recreates that VM according to the configuration that you set. You can also set up an application-based health check […]
AWS – AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing and Ningxia Regions
AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China Ningxia Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Amazon EKS is a managed container service […]