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AWS – Amazon Kendra adds spell checker for queries
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, and helps organizations provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra’s Spell Checker to suggest spell corrections for misspelled words in a query. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Africa (Cape Town), and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
Amazon EMR is the industry-leading cloud big data platform for processing vast amounts of data using open source tools such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Apache HBase, Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, and Presto. Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now supports auto termination of idle clusters in Europe (Milan), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports October 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1. October 2021 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2 and 19c is already launched. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces now helps you automate resource management by using the AWS SDK
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra)—a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra-compatible database service—now helps you automate resource management by using the AWS SDK. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Percept DK February (2202) software update
The Azure Percept February update includes fixes related to security. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Mux meets rising video demands by focusing on developers
As the variety of content creators, devices, and platforms has grown exponentially in recent years, video has become arguably the dominant online medium, accounting for a majority of today’s IP traffic. “Humans sleep first, work second, watch video third, and then everything else is like category four,” said Jon Dahl, co-founder and CEO of Mux, […]
GCP – How Google Cloud helps you to architect for DR when you have locality restricted workloads
There are many reasons why locality restrictions need to be taken into consideration and it’s something CISOs and resiliency officers need to factor in. A balance needs to be met between taking advantage of the best features of the cloud while meeting your locality requirements. Google Cloud helps you meet your business objectives; whether your […]
GCP – Build your perfect Google Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and the gcloud CLI
Infrastructure-as-Code (Iac) tools like Terraform are experiencing fast growing adoption by the developer community. This is no surprise because they greatly simplify the operational overhead associated with deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. In support of this growing trend, today we are pleased to announce Google Cloud CLI’s preview release of Declarative Export for Terraform. Declarative […]
GCP – Redesigning the Cloud SDK + CLI for easier development
At Google Cloud we are constantly iterating on our tools to improve the developer experience and make it easier for you to interact with our technologies. To this end, we are pleased to announce the rebranded Google Cloud SDK. Here’s how the SDK now looks: Click to enlarge Easing discovery by renaming our command line […]
GCP – 78% of VM migrations realize payback in one year or less
Enterprises are interested in moving to the cloud to increase agility in a world where everyone is remote while simultaneously reducing the burden of operating costs. The question is how can they transition to the cloud efficiently without incurring more costs, operational burden and service interruptions while delivering improved experiences to their customers? And, what […]