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AWS – AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration easier so that you can start […]
Azure – General availability: Ingest up to 10 files and blobs with the new Azure Data Explorer intuitive UX
Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard allows you to automatically create a table and ingest data from up to 10 files or blobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Data Exchange enables subscribers to export full revisions
AWS Data Exchange now allows subscribers to export full data set revisions to Amazon S3 in a single export job. Starting today, subscribers who want to export all assets within a data set revision can do so using the AWS Data Exchange console or programmatically using the AWS Data Exchange API. This functionality eliminates the […]
GCP – Don’t fear the authentication: Google Drive edition
There are times when I’m building an application on GCP when I don’t want to use a more traditional datastore like Cloud SQL or Bigtable. Right now, for example, I’m building an app that allows non-technical folks to easily add icons into a build system. I’m not going to write a front-end from scratch, and […]
Azure – Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview
We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU […]
Azure – Azure Automation is now available in Japan West
Automate tasks across Azure & Non-Azure environment using PowerShell and Python based scripts. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing Bare Metal Solution for SAP workloads
When customers run SAP workloads on Google Cloud, we know that scalability is a major concern. It’s why SAP on Google Cloud offers some of the industry’s most powerful SAP-certified infrastructure options: single-node 6TB and 12TB VMs optimized for S/4HANA OLTP workloads. Some of our customers, however, run on-premises SAP environments that are far bigger […]
GCP – Architecting a data lineage system for BigQuery
Democratization of data within an organization is essential to help users derive innovative insights for growth. In a big data environment, traceability of where the data in the data warehouse originated and how it flows through a business is critical. This traceability information is called data lineage. Being able to track, manage, and view data […]
AWS – New digital curriculum: Managing Amazon S3
We’re excited to announce a free new digital curriculum: Managing Amazon Simple Storage Service. This advanced 150-minute curriculum covers techniques to simplify the management of Amazon S3 storage. Designed for cloud architects, storage architects, developers, and operations engineers, it includes interactive lessons, video demonstrations, a self-paced lab, and quizzes. The self-paced lab costs up to […]
Azure – OCR support for 73 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision public preview
Computer Vision Read 3.2 API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and several Latin languages, with option to use the cloud service or deploy the Docker container on premise. Read More for the details.