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GCP – Expanding BigQuery geospatial capabilities with Earth Engine raster analytics
At Google Cloud Next 25, we announced a major step forward in geospatial analytics: Earth Engine in BigQuery. This new capability unlocks Earth Engine raster analytics directly in BigQuery, making advanced analysis of geospatial datasets derived from satellite imagery accessible to the SQL community. Before we get into the details of this new capability and […]
GCP – New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance
BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with column granularity, which lets BigQuery pinpoint relevant data within columns, for faster search queries and lower costs. BigQuery arranges table […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Query Logging now available in two new AWS Regions
Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in the Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Mexico (Central) Regions, enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions
Amazon S3 Tables are now available in eleven additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Milan), Europe (Zurich), Israel (Tel Aviv), and Middle East (Bahrain). S3 Tables deliver the first cloud object store with built-in Apache […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances now available in Korea
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances, optimized for generative AI, are generally available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances deliver up to 40% lower inference costs over comparable Amazon EC2 instances. You can use Inf2 instances to run popular applications such as text summarization, code […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 is now available in AWS Europe (Paris) Region
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded the regional availability for Amazon AppStream 2.0. Starting today, AWS customers can deploy their applications and desktops in the AWS Europe (Paris) Region and stream them using AppStream 2.0. Deploying your applications on AppStream 2.0 in a region closer to your end users helps provide a more responsive experience. […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C8gd, M8gd, and R8gd instances are now available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances, Amazon EC2 M8gd instances, and Amazon EC2 R8gd instances with up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available in AWS Region Europe (Frankfurt). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R7g instances are now available in additional AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R7g instances are available in AWS Middle East (UAE), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Paris, Zurich), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Osaka), and Israel (Tel Aviv) Regions. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built […]
AWS – AWS Resource Explorer supports 41 new resource types
AWS Resource Explorer now supports 41 more resource types across all AWS commercial Regions from services including AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Connect, Amazon Sagemaker, and more. With this release, customers can now search for the following resource types in AWS Resource Explorer: cloud9:environment cloudtrail:eventdatastore connect:instance/rule connect:instance/task-template connect:phone-number datapipeline:pipeline dax:cache devicefarm:project devicefarm:testgrid-project ds:directory ec2:ipam-resource-discovery ec2:ipam-resource-discovery-association elasticloadbalancing:listener-rule/net events:connection […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager adds customization options for onboarding configuration
AWS Systems Manager now enables customers to customize their configurations when enabling the new Systems Manager experience, which provides centralized node management capabilities across AWS accounts and Regions. Customers can choose to enable or disable default EC2 instance permissions for Systems Manager connectivity, set the frequency of inventory metadata collection, and define how often the […]