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AWS – Amazon Redshift Spectrum now offers custom data validation rules
You can now use Amazon Redshift Spectrum to specify custom data validation rules for your external tables when querying the Amazon S3 data lake. This enhancement allows you to control how Redshift Spectrum processes data containing unexpected values such as unsupported UTF-8 characters or numeric overflow in your external tables. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now adds AWS Service Catalog integration for Microsoft SQL Server deployments
AWS Launch Wizard now creates an AWS Service Catalog product when the SQL Server deployment is complete. You can then use the AWS Service Catalog product for repeated SQL Server deployments on EC2. This feature simplifies your subsequent SQL Server deployments, saves time by reusing associated configuration scripts, and makes the integration with your existing […]
AWS – Introducing SQL Explorer in EMR Studio
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Today, we are excited to introduce SQL Explorer, a feature in your EMR Studio Workspace that allows you to browse the […]
GCP – Data governance in the cloud – part 1 – People and processes
In this blog, we’ll cover data governance as it relates to managing data in the cloud. We’ll discuss the operating model which is independent of technologies whether on-prem or cloud, processes to ensure governance, and finally the technologies that are available to ensure data governance in the cloud. This is a two part blog on […]
GCP – Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all
We are often asked if the cloud is more secure than on-premise infrastructure. The quick answer is that, in general, it is. The complete answer is more nuanced and is grounded in a series of cloud security “megatrends” that drive technological innovation and improve the overall security posture of cloud providers and customers. An on-prem […]
GCP – The Google Cloud DevOps Awards: Final call for submissions!
DevOps continues to be a major business accelerator for our customers and we continually see success from customers applying DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) principles and findings to their organization. This is why the first annual DevOps Awardsis targeted to recognize customers shaping the future of DevOps with DORA. Share your inspirational story, supported by […]
GCP – Google Cloud doubles-down on ecosystem in 2022 to meet customer demand
Google Cloud has been a partner-focused business from day one. As we reflect on 2021 and look forward to what’s ahead, I want to say “thank you” to our ecosystem for all of the amazing innovations and services you provided our mutual customers over the last year. In 2021, we faced unprecedented demand from businesses […]
Azure – Generally available: Load Balancer SKU upgrade through PowerShell script
Upgrade to Standard SKU Load Balancer easily through a simple PowerShell script and take advantage of enhanced capabilities. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces general availability of Amazon EC2 Hpc6a instances. These instances are optimized to efficiently run compute-intensive, high performance computing workloads, such as computational fluid dynamics, reservoir modeling, weather simulations, and finite element analysis. Hpc6a instances offer up to 65% better price performance over comparable Amazon EC2 x86 based, compute-optimized instances. With […]
GCP – Using a Subflow in Dialogflow CX
One of the best practices of software development is to refactor common code into modules and then use it across your application. A key feature of Dialogflow CX is to ensure that multiple teams are able to work on complex agents. This will require that it supports reuse of common functionality across flows, not just […]