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GCP – New Google Cloud study: Cloud adoption increasing in financial services, but more guidance needed from regulators
The financial services industry is evolving at a rapid pace, with shifting consumer expectations, new technologies, and developing regulatory requirements. Financial services firms need the right technology to help them stay agile and prepare for the future. The cloud is a key point of leverage for firms looking to improve performance across a broad range […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports ML inference at the edge with Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager and AWS IoT Greengrass
AWS Snow Family now supports AWS IoT Greengrass version 2.0 or higher, which makes it easier for you to build IoT solutions and run ML inference on Snowball Edge and Snowcone devices. With support for AWS IoT Greengrass on Snow, you can now use Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager to optimize, secure, monitor, and maintain ML […]
GCP – Extend your Dataflow template with UDFs
Google provides a set of Dataflow templates that customers commonly use for frequent data tasks, but also as reference data pipelines that developers can extend. But what if you want to customize a Dataflow template without modifying or maintaining the Dataflow template code itself? With user-defined functions (UDFs), customers can extend certain Dataflow templates with […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points to simplify access control
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon S3 Access Points, a feature of Amazon S3 that allows you to easily manage access for shared data lakes. Using your S3 Access Point alias, you can simplify your data access at scale on Amazon EMR. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS App Runner integration in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code
The AWS Toolkit for VS Code now provides developers with convenient IDE functionality to create and manage deployments from their code or image repositories using AWS App Runner. AWS App Runner is a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers without any prior containers or infrastructure experience to build, deploy, and run containerized web applications […]
AWS – PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 Now Available in Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment
PostgreSQL 14 Beta 2 is now available in the Amazon RDS Database Preview Environment, allowing you to test the beta version of PostgreSQL 14 on Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
AWS Snowball Edge (SBE) Storage Optimized devices now support high performance Network File System (NFS) data transfer operations. With this launch, customers can now transfer up to 80TBs of data onto Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices through both file and object interfaces. The file interface exposes a Network File System (NFS) mount point for each […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings now support live transcription with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers can overlay subtitles, build a transcript, or perform real-time content analysis with live audio transcription powered by Amazon Transcribe or Amazon Transcribe Medical. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces and github.dev
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Everyone can also leverage github.dev to browse GitHub repositories and make lightweight code changes. Read More for the details.