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GCP – Bridge data silos with Data Fusion
A huge challenge with data analytics is that the data is all over the place and is in different formats . As a result, you often need to complete numerous integration activities before you can start to gain insights from your data. Data Fusion offers a one-stop-shop for all enterprise data integration activities including ingestion, […]

GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: July 2021
We’ve been busy at Google Cloud this past month working to help businesses and governments around the world address mounting cybersecurity challenges. With so much going on in the security industry, it’s essential that we continue to deliver security solutions that help address critical efforts like the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s […]

GCP – AppLovin builds on Google Cloud to transform mobile marketing
Today’s fastest growing companies are building and scaling in the cloud. Turning to a modern cloud as a platform for growth not only enables easy access to capabilities in areas like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), but also a platform on which they can quickly scale an entire business and deliver products to […]

AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now assign IP prefixes to their EC2 instances
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to assign IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes to your EC2 instances, enabling you to scale and simplify the management of your container and networking applications that require multiple IP addresses on an instance. Read More for the details.

AWS – Simplify CI/CD configuration for serverless applications and your favorite CI/CD system — Public Preview
You can now create secure continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines that follow your organization’s best practices with a new pipeline configuration capability for serverless applications. AWS Serverless Application Model Pipelines (AWS SAM Pipelines) is a new feature of AWS SAM CLI that gives you access to benefits of CI/CD in minutes, such as accelerating […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports the pg_bigm extension for faster full text search in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_bigm extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_bigm extension provides full text search capability in PostgreSQL. This extension allows a user to create *2-gram* (bigram) index for faster full text search. Read More for the details.

GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Storage internals
So far on the BigQuery Admin Reference Guide series, we’ve talked about the different logical resources available inside of BigQuery. Now, we’re going to begin talking about BigQuery’s architecture. In this post we’re diving into how BigQuery stores your data in native storage, and what levers you can pull to optimize how your data is […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports pg_cron extension for scheduling database jobs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition adds support for the pg_cron extension in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. pg_cron allows you to use cron syntax to schedule PostgreSQL commands directly within your database. You can use pg_cron to schedule tasks such as periodically rolling up data for analytic reports, refreshing materialized views, and scheduling vacuum jobs to reclaim storage. […]

AWS – Amazon Aurora Supports PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 12.6, 11.11, 10.16, and 9.6.21 in AWS GovCloud (US) regions. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of […]
AWS – Announcing Automatic Revision Publishing for AWS Data Exchange
Providers using AWS Data Exchange can now publish new revisions to their data products more easily. Before this launch, providers were required to take both finalization and publishing steps to add new revisions to products. Additionally, if a revision was included in multiple products, providers had to take other publishing actions for each individual product […]