Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – DynamoDB to Cloud Spanner via HarbourBridge
Today, we would like to announce that HarbourBridge—the open source toolkit that automates much of the migration effort to Cloud Spanner including evaluation and assessment—supports DynamoDB in addition to existing support for PostgreSQL and MySQL. This allows DynamoDB users to try out Cloud Spanner with zero-configuration. HarbourBridge helps users to quickly resolve issues during schema […]
GCP – New research from Google Cloud reveals five innovation trends for market data
While some traditional financial services companies have more slowly transitioned to the cloud, capital markets firms have embraced cloud computing across their entire value chains — front-, middle-, and back-office. We wanted to understand the dynamics behind this rapid adoption, the most common use cases, and the types of technology most in use, particularly as […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now generates additional metrics for classification problems
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot generates additional metrics, along with the objective metric, for all model candidates. For binary classification problems, Autopilot now generates F1 score (harmonic mean of the […]
AWS – Amazon Comprehend announces model management and evaluation enhancements
Amazon Comprehend has launched a suite of features for Comprehend Custom to enable continuous model improvements by giving developers the ability to create new model versions, to continuously test on specific test sets, and to migrate new models to existing endpoints. Using AutoML, custom entity recognition allows you to customize Amazon Comprehend to identify entities […]
AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN releases updated Download Configuration utility
Today, AWS Site-to-Site VPN released an updated Download Configuration utility. With this update, Site-to-Site VPN customers can generate configuration templates for compatible Customer Gateway (CGW) devices, making it easier to create VPN connections to AWS. This update adds support for Internet Key Exchange version 2 (IKEv2) parameters for many popular CGW devices. Read More for […]
GCP – What is Cloud Composer?
When you are building data pipelines, you need to manage and monitor the workflows in the pipeline and often automate them to run periodically. Cloud Composer is a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that helps you author, schedule, and monitor pipelines spanning hybrid and multi-cloud environments. By using Cloud Composer instead […]
AWS – AWS Amplify CLI and Admin UI is now generally available in US West (N. California), Europe (Paris), Europe (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), and Middle East (Bahrain)
AWS Amplify offers a fully managed static web hosting service that accelerates your application release cycle by providing a simple CI/CD workflow for building and deploying full-stack static web applications. Simply connect your application’s code repository in the console, and changes to your frontend and backend are deployed in a single workflow on every code […]
Azure – General availability: Oracle consistent snapshots using Azure VM Backup
Azure Backup provides packaged pre-post scripts for Oracle VMs that can be used to instantly backup, create instant clones, reduce backup storage cost, and performance impact. Read More for the details.
GCP – New SystemsResearch@Google team—shaping the future of hyperscalar systems
For over two decades, Google has helped lead the invention of modern cloud systems—defining, designing and deploying warehouse-scale computing as the foundation for reliable, performant, and secure global-scale information services delivered to billions of users around the world. This leadership involves significant innovation across a broad range of systems technologies, including distributed systems, storage systems, […]
AWS – SageMaker Studio enables interactive Spark based data processing from Studio Notebooks
Amazon SageMaker announces a new set of capabilities that will enable interactive Spark based data processing from SageMaker Studio Notebooks. Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, […]