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AWS – AWS announces AWS Snowcone SSD
AWS Snowcone is now available in solid state drives (SSD) with 14TB storage capacity. AWS Snowcone is the smallest AWS Snow Family device equipped to handle edge computing, edge storage, and data transfers. With this launch, AWS Snowcone is now available in both hard disk drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD). Snowcone SSD has […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports triggering Lambda functions from an Amazon SQS queue in a different account
AWS Lambda now allows customers to trigger functions from Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queues that are in a different AWS account. Previously, customers could trigger Lambda functions from SQS queues in the same account only. Starting today, customers can create Lambda functions in multiple AWS accounts without needing to replicate the event source in […]
AWS – AWS Data Exchange now supports automatic exports of third-party data updates
AWS Data Exchange subscribers can now use auto-export to automatically copy newly published revisions from their 3rd party data subscriptions to an Amazon S3 bucket of their choice in just a few clicks. With auto-export, subscribers no longer have to manually export new revisions or dedicate engineering resources to build ingestion pipelines that export new […]
Azure – Azure Site Recovery update rollup 58 is now generally available – September 2021
The latest Azure Site Recovery update provides fixes and download links for Site Recovery components. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds support for over 200 AWS Services with AWS SDK Integration
AWS Step Functions now integrates with the AWS SDK, expanding the number of supported AWS Services from 17 to over 200 and AWS API Actions from 46 to over 9,000. Read More for the details.
GCP – People and planet AI: How to build a Time Series Model to classify fishing activities in the sea
Who would have known that today technology would enable us with the ability to use machine learning to track vessel activity, and make pattern inferences to help address IUU (illegal, unreported, and unregulated) fishing activities. What’s even more noteworthy is that we now have the computing power to share this information publicly in order to […]
GCP – VMware and Google Cloud: The next chapter
Google Cloud Next and VMworld 2021 are less than two weeks away, and the partnership between Google Cloud and VMware is entering a new chapter. Over the past year, our close partnership with VMware and mutual dedication to customer success has inspired us to deliver several innovative capabilities, including expanding the service to 12 regions […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3.xlplus in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift RA3.xlplus nodes are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Redshift RA3 instances with managed storage allow you to scale compute and storage independently for fast query performance and lower costs. RA3 is available in three different node types to allow you to balance price and performance depending upon your workload […]
GCP – Building the data science driven organisation from the first principles
In this blog series, a companion to our paper, we’re exploring different types of data-driven organizations. In the last blog, we discussed main principles for building a data engineering driven organisation. In this second part of the series focus is on how to build a data science driven organization. The emergence of big data, advances […]
GCP – QuillBot cuts writing time for over 10 million users using Google Cloud
QuillBot, a Chicago-based company founded in 2017, is a natural language processing (NLP) company recently acquired bycoursehero.com. QuillBot’s platform of tools leverages state-of-the-art NLP to assist users with paraphrasing, summarization, grammar checking, and citation generation. With over ten million monthly active users around the world, QuillBot continues to improve writers’ efficiency and productivity on a […]