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AWS – Amazon Detective simplifies account management with the support for AWS Organizations
Amazon Detective has added support for AWS Organizations to simplify account management for security operations and investigations across all existing and future accounts in an organization. With this launch, new and existing Detective customers can onboard and centrally manage the Detective graph database for up to 1,200 AWS accounts. This support is available today in all […]

GCP – Leveraging BigQuery Audit Log pipelines for Usage Analytics
In the BigQuery Spotlight series, we talked about Monitoring. This post focuses on using Audit Logs for deep dive monitoring. BigQuery Audit Logs are a collection of logs provided by Google Cloud that provide insight into operations related to your use of BigQuery. A wealth of information is available to you in the Audit Logs. […]

GCP – The top three insights we learned from data analytics customers in 2021
As you know, we’re obsessed about learning from customers. That’s why, we made it a point to sit down with a new Google Cloud customer every week this year to share with you their journey both to our unified data cloud platform and what they’ve learned from their experience along the way. What began as […]

Azure – Public preview of Snowflake connector for Azure Purview
You can now scan your Snowflake artifacts including streams, columns, stored procedures, and functions/pipes. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Ground Station Launches a New Antenna Location in Punta Arenas in Preview
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion of AWS Ground Station to the South America (São Paulo) Region with an AWS Ground Station antenna location in Punta Arenas, Chile in Preview. This is the 10th AWS Ground Station connected to the AWS Global Network. AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control […]

GCP – How to migrate an on-premises data warehouse to BigQuery on Google Cloud
Data teams across companies have continuous challenges of consolidating data, processing it and making it useful. They deal with challenges such as a mixture of multiple ETL jobs, long ETL windows capacity-bound on-premise data warehouses and ever-increasing demands from users. They also need to make sure that the downstream requirements of ML, reporting and analytics […]

GCP – 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems recognizes Google as a Leader
We are thrilled that Gartner has positioned Google as a Leader for the second year in a row in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems (DBMS). We believe the report evaluated Google’s unified capabilities across both transactional and analytical use cases, and showcases innovation progress in areas like data management consistency, […]

AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese
Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the […]

Azure – Placement polices now generally available for Azure VMware Solution
Placement policies enable admins to specify constraints or rules when allocating Virtual Machines within an Azure VMware Solution private cloud. With this update, the creation and assignment of vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) rules for running Virtual Machines in an Azure VMware Solution SDDC has been simplified and is now executable directly from the Azure Portal for […]
Azure – Soft delete for blobs capability for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available
If you have processes or tools to detect accidental deletion of files and directories for your Azure Data Lake Storage accounts, you can now also restore the deleted objects using soft delete for blobs capability. During the retention period that you specify, you can now restore a soft-deleted object to its state at the time […]