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AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now provides a JDBC driver to connect from BI tools and execute SQL Queries
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for storing, querying and indexing Geospatial data
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for $literal, $map, and $$ROOT
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) adds support for Access Control with User-Defined Roles
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB makes it easy to store, query, and index JSON data at scale. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudFront adds support for client IP address and connection port header
Amazon CloudFront now provides a CloudFront-Viewer-Address header that includes IP address and connection port information for requesting clients. The connection port field indicates the TCP source port used by the requesting client. Previously, IP address and client connection port information were available only in CloudFront access logs, making it harder to resolve issues or perform […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL supports new minor version 8.0.26, includes Global Transaction Identifiers (GITDs) and Delayed Replication
Following the release of updates in MySQL version 8.0, we have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL and Amazon RDS for MySQL on Outposts to support MySQL minor version 8.0.26. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor version to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from […]

GCP – Model training as a CI/CD system: Part II
In the first part of the blog post, we discussed how to monitor code changes and submit a TensorFlow Extended (TFX) pipeline to Vertex AI for execution. We concluded that post with a few questions: What if we wanted to maintain a schedule (say hourly — usually dependent on the use-case) to trigger the pipeline […]

GCP – Google Cloud Next Rollup for Data Analytics
October 23rd (this past Saturday!) was my 4th Googlevarsery and we are wrapping an incredible Google Next 2021! When I started in 2017, we had a dream of making BigQuery Intelligent Data Warehouse that would power every organization’s data driven digital transformation. This year at Next, It was amazing to see Google Cloud’s CEO, Thomas […]

Azure – Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights are now support Availability Zones capability in West US 2. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal
Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available. Read More for the details.