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GCP – How Wayfair says yes with BigQuery—without breaking the bank
Editor’s note: Home-goods and furniture giant Wayfair first partnered up with Google Cloud to transform and scale its storefront—work that proved its value many times over during the unprecedented surge in ecommerce traffic during 2020. Today, we hear how BigQuery’s performance and cost optimization have transformed the company’s internal analytics to create an environment of […]

GCP – Unified data and ML: 5 ways to use BigQuery and Vertex AI together
Are you storing your data in BigQuery and interested in using that data to train and deploy models? Or maybe you’re already building ML workflows in Vertex AI, but looking to do more complex analysis of your model’s predictions? In this post, we’ll show you five integrations between Vertex AI and BigQuery, so you can […]

AWS – AWS App Runner adds support for Amazon VPC
AWS App Runner services can now communicate with other applications hosted in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). You can now connect you App Runner services to databases in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), to Redis caches in Amazon ElastiCache, or to message queues in Amazon MQ. You can also connect your services […]

Azure – Generally available: Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository
Easily find developer resources and sample code for building Azure IoT Central solutions at the new Azure IoT Central GitHub repository. Read More for the details.

GCP – Long-running containers with Workflows and Compute Engine
Sometimes, you need to run a piece of code for hours, days, or even weeks. Cloud Functions and Cloud Run are my default choices to run code. However, they both have limitations on how long a function or container can run. This rules out the idea of executing long-running code in a serverless way. Thanks […]

Azure – Generally available: Improved getting started material in Azure IoT Central documentation
New FAQ articles and a re-organized landing page and table of contents improves your ability to find the information you need about Azure IoT Central. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 Batch Replication synchronizes existing data between buckets
Amazon S3 Replication is an elastic, fully managed, low-cost feature that replicates newly uploaded objects across two or more Amazon S3 buckets, keeping buckets in sync. Now, with S3 Batch Replication, you can synchronize existing objects between buckets. Read More for the details.

AWS – Now consistently deploy Alert Logic MDR Agent across EC2 and On-Premises instances using AWS Systems Manager
Distributor, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, allows you to select from available third-party agents to install and manage on your instances. With this launch, you can deploy the pre-built Alert Logic Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Agent directly from Distributor to your EC2 or on-premises instances without having to create or maintain any software […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now supports the latest versions and to bring your own subscription (BYOS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to deploy SAP on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.7 and 7.9 versions. This allows you to take advantage of the latest RHEL operating system (OS) versions to support your SAP systems running on AWS. Additionally, with this launch, you can bring existing RHEL subscriptions to support new SAP […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides Confusion Matrix and additional new insights for classification problems.
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides new metrics and reports that provide you better visibility into model performance for classification problems. You can leverage these metrics to gather more insights about […]