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AWS – AWS Cloud9 now supports Amazon Linux 2 environments
You can now launch AWS Cloud9 development environments with Amazon Linux 2 (AL2). Amazon Linux 2 is the next generation of Amazon Linux, a Linux server operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provides a secure, stable, and high performance execution environment to develop and run cloud and enterprise applications. AWS Cloud9 is a […]
GCP – Making meetings more immersive, inclusive, and productive with Google Meet
Virtual meetings have been at the center of work’s global transformation this past year. Long before the pandemic, they played a crucial role for distributed teams, but now they’ve become the glue that holds the work day together for countless teams and organizations that used to share a physical workplace. With the hybrid model emerging […]
GCP – New Redis Enterprise for Anthos and GKE
Among forward-looking developers, the open-source Redis in-memory data structure store is a popular option for anyone looking for a database, cache, and message broker. At Google Cloud Next 2019, Redis Labs, the home of Redis announced Redis Enterprise, a fully managed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) running on Google Cloud. This week at RedisConf 2021, we are building […]
GCP – Solving for more sustainable and resilient value chains
The past year highlighted the fragility of global supply chains and logistics networks and the need to adapt to rapidly changing business models and customer preferences. The importance of flexible, resilient and sustainable customer value chains is critical as organizations recalibrate to a post-pandemic world. Global supply chains are also subject to environmental risks. In […]
GCP – Customers cut document processing time and costs with DocAI solutions, now generally available
Some of the most important data at your company isn’t living in databases, but in documents, and most business processes begin, involve or end with a document. Yet most companies are still manually entering data and reliant on guesswork to make sense of it all as the volume and variety of data explodes. Organizations are […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Glue Studio is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue Studio is a visual interface for AWS Glue that makes it easy for extract-transform-and-load (ETL) developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. You can now use a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now generally available
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of EMR Studio, 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. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, and tools like Spark […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMaker
Today, Amazon Athena announced the general availability of a new capability that makes working with machine learning models as simple as running a SQL query. You can now build and deploy machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker and use SQL functions in Amazon Athena to generate predictions from your SageMaker models. This enables analytics teams […]
Azure – Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker announces a price reduction by up to 14% on instances and SageMaker Savings Plans with up to 64% cost saving
Today we are announcing Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans, a new flexible pricing model that allows you to save up to 64% on Amazon SageMaker ML instances in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of eligible usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a 1- or 3-year term. We are also pleased to share that effective […]