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GCP – Introducing SWIFT on Google Cloud
It is hard to understand global payments without understanding SWIFT. For over 40 years, SWIFT, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, has secured financial messaging for banks, corporates, brokers, and treasuries in over 200 countries. For example, if you have ever requested a funds transfer from your local bank’s branch or website to a friend […]

AWS – AWS Snow Family now enables you to remotely monitor and operate your connected Snowball Edge devices
AWS Snowball customers can now remotely monitor and operate their devices from AWS OpsHub or the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). This enables customers to manage one or thousands of Snowball Edge devices, even when they are geographically dispersed. For Snowball Edge devices connected to the network, customers can remotely view a central dashboard to […]

AWS – Amazon RDS Data API now supports returning SQL results as a simplified JSON string
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Data API can now return results in a new simplified JSON format that makes it easier to convert JSON string to an object in your application. Previously, Amazon RDS Data API returned a JSON string as an array of data type and value pairs. This required developers to write […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports random sampling and stratified sampling
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a […]

AWS – Get insights into Data and Data Quality with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and visualization from a […]

AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud Are Now Available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
You can now use Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints for hybrid cloud configurations in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Chime SDK offers API endpoints for media pipeline in Oregon, Frankfurt, and Singapore
Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging to their web applications. Media Pipelines allow developers to capture the contents of Amazon Chime SDK WebRTC media sessions to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK now has media pipeline API […]

AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 I4i instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 I4i instances. Designed for storage I/O intensive workloads, I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 30% better compute price performance over I3 instances, and always-on […]

AWS – AWS Snow launches Large Data Migration Manager for planning and managing large data migrations from your premises to AWS
Today, AWS Snow Family launches Large Data Migration Manager, a new feature that enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge service products. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terrabytes to petabyte scale data migrations. Using Large Data Migration Manager […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’
New Azure Compute Gallery feature ‘community gallery’ makes your private images public. Read More for the details.