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GCP – Delivering API stability with Google Enterprise APIs
Developing and running transformative applications in the cloud requires innovative technology, infrastructure, and services. It also requires a foundation of trust and stability, so organizations have the confidence to make long-term investments on our platform. At Google Cloud, we’ve been implementing programs to enhance your trust in our platform; for example, we introduced Mission Critical […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker JumpStart introduces new vision models for image feature vector extraction and object detection
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily solve your machine learning problems with one-click access to popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub and Hugging Face (also known as “model zoos”), and to 16 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_partman extension for managing time or serial id based table partitioning in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition supports the Partition Manager (pg_partman) extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_partman is a PostgreSQL extension that helps you to manage both time series and serial-based table partition sets, including automatic management of partition creation and runtime maintenance. pg_partman works with PostgreSQL native partitioning so users can benefit from significant performance […]

GCP – Strengthening our workplace with neurodiverse talent
My passion for neurodiversity began 10 years ago, when I became involved with Els for Autism, an organization that works with children and adults who have autism, as well as their families. At the time, I had a friend who was struggling to find resources for his son with autism. The foundation promotes acceptance and […]

AWS – Discovering Hot Topics Using Machine Learning solution now allows businesses to analyze news article content for sentiment and topic analysis
AWS Solutions has updated Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning, an AWS Solutions Implementation that ingests text, image and video (video: upcoming feature) from online discourse in order to perform topic modeling, sentiment analysis on plain text and text embedded within images as well as detection of unsafe content in images. Read More for the […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing prepared data directly into JDBC-supported destinations
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing cleaned and normalized data directly into JDBC-supported databases and data warehouses without requiring customers to move large amounts of data into intermediary data stores. In just a few clicks, customers can configure their recipe jobs to specify the following output destinations – Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, […]

AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew adds the ability to specify which data quality statistics are generated for your datasets
AWS Glue DataBrew now allows customers to specify which data quality statistics to auto-generate for datasets when running a profile job. This allows users to customize data profile statistics such as determining duplicate values, correlations, and outliers based on the nature and size of their datasets, and create a custom data profile overview with only […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index and search documents from Amazon WorkDocs – a fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon QLDB supports customer managed KMS keys
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) now supports customer managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys to encrypt data at rest. Starting today, customers can encrypt QLDB Ledgers with keys created and controlled exclusively in their account, with key policy, audits, and key lifecycle managed by the customer. With this feature, QLDB customers can meet […]
Azure – Azure Active Directory support for Azure Relay now in public preview
Azure Relay now supports authentication and authorization via Azure AD as a public preview offering. With Azure AD, you don’t need to store tokens in your code. Read More for the details.