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GCP – Extend your Dataflow template with UDFs
Google provides a set of Dataflow templates that customers commonly use for frequent data tasks, but also as reference data pipelines that developers can extend. But what if you want to customize a Dataflow template without modifying or maintaining the Dataflow template code itself? With user-defined functions (UDFs), customers can extend certain Dataflow templates with […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points, a feature of Amazon S3 that allows you to easily manage access for shared data lakes. Using your S3 Access Point alias, you can simplify your data access at scale on Amazon EMR. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to create and manage deployments from their code or image repositories using AWS App Runner. AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 14 on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
AWS Snowball Edge (SBE) Storage Optimized devices now support high performance Network File System (NFS) data transfer operations. With this launch, customers can now transfer up to 80TBs of data onto Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices through both file and object interfaces. The file interface exposes a Network File System (NFS) mount point for each […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings now support live transcription with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers can overlay subtitles, build a transcript, or perform real-time content analysis with live audio transcription powered by Amazon Transcribe or Amazon Transcribe Medical. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces and github.dev
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Everyone can also leverage github.dev to browse GitHub repositories and make lightweight code changes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Fuel your custom models with Vertex AI
In May we announced Vertex AI, our new unified AI platform which provides options for everything from using pre-trained models to building your models with a variety of frameworks. In this post we’ll do a deep dive on training and deploying a custom model on Vertex AI. There are many different tools provided in Vertex […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now allows you to easily identify latest releases that have the applications you need
You can now easily list Amazon EMR releases available in an Amazon region and describe the applications available with any Amazon EMR release. Previously, if you were looking to launch Amazon EMR clusters in new regions, or with the latest version of an application, you had to read the release notes and manually update your cluster launch […]