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AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups now supports parallel node upgrades
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now supports upgrading multiple nodes in parallel. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now provides data previews during visual job authoring
AWS Glue Studio now allows you to preview your data at each step of the visual job authoring process. AWS Glue Studio automatically samples your data, then runs each transform in your job so you can test and debug your transformations without having to save or run the job. Data previews are available for each […]
Azure – Update PowerShell versions 7.0 and 7.1 to protect against a vulnerability
If you manage your Azure resources from PowerShell, update versions 7.0 and 7.1 of PowerShell as soon as possible. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing Amazon Kendra Smaller Units and Price Drop
We are excited to announce that Kendra Enterprise Edition is now offered in smaller more granular units to enable smaller workloads. The base Kendra Enterprise Edition (KEE) now starts at $1.40/h ($1,008/mo), offering the same functionality and availability at a smaller scale and cost. The base KEE now supports up to 100,000 documents and 8,000 […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Security Center updates for June 2021
New enhancements and updates released in Azure Security Center in June 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster now supports Ubuntu 20.04
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]
GCP – Rubin Observatory offers first astronomy research platform in the cloud
This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is launching the first preview of its new Rubin Science Platform (RSP) for an initial cohort of astronomers. The observatory, which is located in Chile but managed by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab in Tucson, AZ and SLAC in California, is jointly funded by the NSF and […]
GCP – Creating a unified analytics platform for digital natives
Digital native companies have no shortage of data, which is often spread across different platforms and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools. As an increasing amount of data about the business is collected, democratizing access to this information becomes all the more important. While many tools offer in-application statistics and visualizations, centralizing data sources for cross-platform analytics allows […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing datasets from job runs directly into the AWS Glue Data Catalog
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ability to write datasets created from jobs that run your data preparation recipes directly to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You can choose to store datasets in Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon RDS (Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) tables in the Data Catalog. Read More for […]
Azure – General availability: Skip X.509 certificate proof of possession for IoT Hub and DPS
To make it easier to get started with X.509 authentication with IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Services (DPS), we’re removing the requirement to prove possession of uploaded certificates. Read More for the details.