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GCP – Google Cloud Network Service Tiers: An overview
With Network Service Tiers, Google Cloud is the first major public cloud to offer a tiered cloud network. Two tiers are available: Premium Tier and Standard Tier. Click to enlarge Premium Tier Premium Tier delivers traffic from external systems to Google Cloud resources by using Google’s highly reliable, low-latency global network. This network consists of […]
AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager is now available in 7 additional AWS Regions
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager in 7 additional AWS regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), South America (Sao Paulo), US West (N. California). To learn about Incident Manager, see the Incident Manager product page. Read More […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer cache policy hot windows
Azure Data Explorer always supported to cache the latest ingested data for best performance. It now supports selectively caching older data which is ideal when auditing a given time period. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using Google Cloud Vision API from within a Data Fusion Pipeline
Cloud Data Fusion (CDF) provides enormous opportunity to help cultivate new data pipelines and integrations. With over 200 plugins, Data Fusion gives you the tools to wrangle, coalesce and integrate with many data providers like Salesforce, Amazon S3, BigQuery, Azure, Kafka Streams and more. Deploying scalable, resilient data pipelines based upon open source CDAP gives […]
GCP – Announcing Spot Pods for GKE Autopilot—save on fault tolerant workloads
We launched GKE Autopilot back in February and since then, we’ve been hard at work adding functionality to deliver a fully featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce Spot Pods. (Not familiar with GKE Autopilot yet? Check out the Autopilot breakout session at Google Cloud Next ‘21, which gives a rundown of […]
GCP – JOIN 2021: Sharing our product vision with the Looker community
Welcome to JOIN 2021! We’re so excited to kick off Looker’s annual user conference. It’s an event we look forward to each year as it’s a terrific opportunity to connect with the Looker community, interact with our partners and customers, showcase our product capabilities, and share our product vision and strategy for the year ahead. […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports retry policies and resume
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, a purpose-built service which enables customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps, now supports resuming execution of a failed/stopped pipeline, and retry policies for pipeline steps. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports Amazon CloudWatch Alarms and AWS Systems Manager Automation Runbooks.
You can now create and run AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiments that check the state of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and run AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automations. You can also now run new FIS experiment actions that inject I/O, network black hole, and packet loss faults into your Amazon EC2 instanes using pre-configured SSM Agent documents. […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings now offer API endpoints in Oregon, Frankfurt and Singapore
The Amazon Chime SDK now has meeting API endpoints in the US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions, providing customers a choice of which AWS Region they use to create and manage meetings which can be hosted in any of the 18 Amazon Chime media regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Going beyond the dashboard paradigm with Looker Components
These days, it’s no secret that traditional business intelligence (BI) is evolving. With the rise of embedded analytics, enterprises everywhere are beginning to seek out opportunities to augment their day-to-day workflows with real-time insights. These data-augmented workflows are what Looker calls “data experiences”. Some of these experiences are easy to identify and implement: maybe it’s […]