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GCP – What is Cloud Composer?
When you are building data pipelines, you need to manage and monitor the workflows in the pipeline and often automate them to run periodically. Cloud Composer is a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that helps you author, schedule, and monitor pipelines spanning hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By using Cloud Composer instead […]
AWS – AWS Amplify CLI and Admin UI is now generally available in US West (N. California), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and Middle East (Bahrain)
AWS Amplify offers a fully managed static web hosting service that accelerates your application release cycle by providing a simple CI/CD workflow for building and deploying full-stack static web applications. Simply connect your application’s code repository in the console, and changes to your frontend and backend are deployed in a single workflow on every code […]
Azure – General availability: Oracle consistent snapshots using Azure VM Backup
Azure Backup provides packaged pre-post scripts for Oracle VMs that can be used to instantly backup, create instant clones, reduce backup storage cost, and performance impact. Read More for the details.
GCP – New SystemsResearch@Google team—shaping the future of hyperscalar systems
For over two decades, Google has helped lead the invention of modern cloud systems—defining, designing and deploying warehouse-scale computing as the foundation for reliable, performant, and secure global-scale information services delivered to billions of users around the world. This leadership involves significant innovation across a broad range of systems technologies, including distributed systems, storage systems, […]
AWS – SageMaker Studio enables interactive Spark based data processing from Studio Notebooks
Amazon SageMaker announces a new set of capabilities that will enable interactive Spark based data processing from SageMaker Studio Notebooks. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, […]
GCP – 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report addresses burnout, team performance
Over the past seven years, more than 32,000 professionals worldwide have taken part in the Accelerate State of DevOps reports, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. Year over year, the Accelerate State of DevOps reports provide data-driven industry insights that examine the capabilities and practices that drive software delivery as well […]
AWS – Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
We’re excited to announce that in Amazon Forecast, you can now select the accuracy metric of your choice to direct AutoML to optimize training a predictor for the selected accuracy metric. Additionally, we have added three more accuracy metrics to evaluate your predictor – average weighted quantile loss (Average wQL), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), […]
GCP – Google Cloud research credits expand to nonprofit researchers
To fuel the breakthroughs of the future, today’s researchers need easy access to the most innovative cloud technologies. That’s why we are delighted to announce the latest expansion of Google Cloud research credits beyond its previous scope of government and academic research institutions to researchers at nonprofit institutions. This initiative is part of our ongoing […]
GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator locally
Welcome to the second part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. Today, we will learn about running the Cloud Spanner emulator locally and containerizing + deploying the backend […]
Azure – Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group. Read More for the details.