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AWS – NICE EnginFrame adds AWS HPC cluster management with AWS ParallelCluster
Today we are announcing general availability of NICE EnginFrame 2021.0. NICE EnginFrame is an easy-to-use, web front-end that makes HPC job submission and management easier for customers. With this latest release, customers are able to use NICE EnginFrame across both on-premises and AWS environments using its new AWS HPC Connector feature. Where customers may have […]
AWS – Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature
Amazon Pinpoint now includes a one-time password (OTP) management feature. An OTP is an automatically generated string of characters that authenticates a user for a single login attempt or transaction. The OTP feature makes it easier to add OTP workflows to your application, site, or service. You can use this feature to generate new OTP […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3 self-service RI migration feature in the Amazon Redshift Console.
Amazon Redshift has launched the ability to run a single-node RA3.xlplus cluster. Amazon Redshift RA3 clusters support many important features including Amazon Redshift Managed Storage (RMS), data sharing and AQUA. Single-node RA3.xlplus clusters allow you to take advantage of the most advanced Redshift features at a lower cost. You can migrate single-node DS2.xlarge or single-node DC2.large clusters […]
GCP – Enabling keyless authentication from GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions is a third-party CI/CD solution popular among many Google Cloud customers and developers. When a GitHub Actions Workflow needs to read or mutate resources on Google Cloud – such as publishing a container to Artifact Registry or deploying a new service with Cloud Run – it must first authenticate. Traditionally, authenticating from GitHub […]
GCP – Ensuring scale and compliance of your Terraform Deployment with Cloud Build
Terraform is an open source Infrastructure as Code tool that is popular with platform developers building reusable cloud automation. The Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform continues to add support for the latest Google Cloud features, such as Anthos on GKE, and our teams continue to expand Terraform integrations including Cloud Foundation Toolkit and Terraform […]
AWS – Amazon Polly introduces Takumi, a new neural Japanese male voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Takumi, Polly’s Japanese male text to speech (TTS) voice. Takumi neural TTS sounds natural, friendly and smooth. With this launch, you can now select from three unique Japanese TTS voices: Mizuki […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports endpoint visibility, custom metadata and model metrics
SageMaker Model Registry, a purpose-built service which enables customers to catalog their ML models, now provides endpoint visibility from Studio UI, ability to store custom metadata and view/store broad array of metrics for a given model. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing preview of SQL Notebooks support in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2
Amazon Redshift simplifies organizing, documenting, and sharing of multiple SQL queries with support for SQL Notebooks (preview) in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2. The new Notebook interface enables users such as data analysts and data scientists to author queries more easily, organizing multiple SQL queries and annotations on a single document. They can also collaborate with […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now logs Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events
AWS Lambda now logs the Hyperplane Elastic Network Interface (ENI) ID in AWS CloudTrail data events, for functions running in an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Customers can use the ENI ID in AWS CloudTrail data events to audit the security of their applications, and verify that only authorized functions are accessing their VPC resources […]
GCP – Using Google Cloud Service Account impersonation in your Terraform code
Terraform is one of the most popular open source infrastructure-as-code tools out there, and it works great for managing resources on Google Cloud. When you’re just kicking the tires and learning how to use Terraform with Google Cloud, having the owner role on the project and running Terraform yourself makes things very easy. That’s because […]