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AWS – Amazon MSK now offers the ability to scale storage throughput up to 1000 MiB/s per broker
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to provision storage throughput for Amazon MSK, enabling customers with high throughput workloads to seamlessly scale I/O without having to provision additional brokers. By provisioning up to 1000 MiB/s of throughput to Amazon MSK storage volumes, you can scale I/O requirements past 250 MiB/s […]
GCP – BigQuery Connector for SAP: Power your cloud data analytics strategy
Google Cloud has a genuine passion for solving technology problems that make a difference for our customers. With the release of our BigQuery Connector for SAP, we’re taking a another big step towards solving a major challenge for SAP customers with a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to integrate SAP data with BigQuery, our serverless, […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: January 2022
I’m excited to share our first Cloud CISO Perspectives post of 2022. It’s already shaping up to be an eventful year for our industry and we’re only in month one. There’s a lot to recap in this post, including the U.S. government’s recent efforts to address critical security issues, like open source software security and […]
GCP – Introducing Certificate Manager to simplify SaaS scale TLS and certificate management
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Certificate Manager and its integration with External HTTPS Load Balancing. Certificate Manager enables you to use External HTTPS Load Balancing with as many certificates or domains as you need. You can bring your own TLS certificates and keys if you have an existing certificate lifecycle management solution […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart models support custom VPC and KMS settings
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a capability of Amazon SageMaker that accelerates your machine learning workflows with one-click access to popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 16 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Read More for the […]
AWS – Improved progress updates for blue/green deployments in Amazon OpenSearch Service
Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service) now offers improved visibility into the progress of blue/green deployments to your Amazon OpenSearch Service domains. This includes visibility into the completion of different steps within an update, such as creation and deletion of instances, and the progress of shard migration. Read More for the details.
GCP – From data chaos to data-driven: How dedicated data teams can help EdTechs influence the future of education
Education data can inform strategy, enhance both teaching and learning, and help us better understand customer needs. But that data is only as useful as an organization’s ability to access, analyze, and act upon it. Education Technology (EdTech) companies with a strong data warehouse management policy can help to make the most of educational data […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map API now supports IPv6
AWS Cloud Map API now supports the IPv6 protocol, allowing applications to connect to AWS Cloud Map endpoints over IPv6. This allows you to more easily integrate with existing IPv6-based applications, and reduce the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for Apache Parquet file format
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides support for the Apache Parquet file format. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds support for datasets up to 100 GB
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. You can now use SageMaker Autopilot to build machine learning models for regression and classification problems on datasets larger than 10 GB, the previously supported limit. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot […]