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GCP – Streaming data into BigQuery using Storage Write API
BigQuery is a serverless, highly scalable, and cost-effective data warehouse that customers love. Similarly, Dataflow is a serverless, horizontally and vertically scaling platform for large scale data processing. Many users use both these products in conjunction to get timely analytics from the immense volume of data a modern enterprise generates. To make sure that users […]
GCP – Google data experts share top data practitioner skills needed in 2022
It’s 2022 and nanosatellites, NFTs, and autonomous cars that deliver your pizza are in full force. In a world where people rely on simple technology to untangle complex problems, companies must deliver simple experiences to be successful in today’s landscape. For many cloud providers this means enabling tightly integrated data offerings that simplify the data […]
Azure – Public preview: Resource configuration changes
Resource configuration changes, a feature enabling the querying of changes to Azure resource configurations across subscriptions, management groups, and tenant, is now in public preview. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Amazon Redshift Cross-region data sharing
Amazon Redshift data sharing allows you to share live, transactionally consistent data across different Redshift clusters without the complexity and delays associated with data copies and data movement. Ability to share data across clusters that are in the same AWS account and across accounts is already available. Now sharing data across Redshift clusters in different AWS Regions is […]
AWS – AWS introduces s2n-quic, a new open-source implementation of the QUIC protocol
We are pleased to announce the availability of s2n-quic, an open-source Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol, in our AWS encryption open-source libraries. We are also renaming s2n, AWS’s open-source C implementation of the TLS protocol, to s2n-tls. s2n-quic has an API that is designed to be fast and small, with simplicity as a priority. It […]
AWS – Introducing auto-adjusting budgets
Starting today, you can use AWS Budgets to create auto-adjusting budgets. An auto-adjusting budget dynamically sets your budget amount based on historical cost or usage over a time range that you specify. This reduces the guesswork in setting a budget limit and keeps you updated as your spend patterns change. Auto-adjusting budgets are generally available […]
GCP – Strengthen protection for your GCE VMs with new FIDO security key support
With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 almost two years ago, native support for FIDO authentication became an option in SSH. This meant that you could have your SSH private key protected in a purpose-built security key, rather than storing the key locally on a disk where it may be more susceptible to compromise. Building on […]
GCP – Cloud Spanner myths busted
Intro to Cloud Spanner Cloud Spanner is an enterprise-grade, globally distributed, externally consistent database that offers unlimited scalability and industry-leading 99.999% availability. It requires no maintenance windows and offers a familiar PostgreSQL interface. It combines the benefits of relational databases with the unmatched scalability and availability of non-relational databases. As organizations modernize and simplify their […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds support for Amazon EKS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights adds metric collection support for your applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with AWS Fargate using AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT). ADOT is a secure, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. Customers can now easily collect EKS Fargate metrics, such as CPU, memory, disk, and network, and analyze them along with other […]
GCP – Introducing Timeseries Insights API: real-time forecasting and anomaly detection over trillions of events
Businesses are awash in event-driven data, from customers visiting stores or submitting online queries to making purchases or triggering sensors. Leveraging this data for real-time forecasting and anomaly detection is critical to serving customers across changing needs and environments—but doing this kind of time-series analysis in real-time has often required bespoke solutions, saddling businesses with […]