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AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Business Intelligence Suite in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite on SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now run SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services on DB instances using the latest major versions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Security Command Center now supports CIS 1.1 benchmarks and granular access control
Security Command Center (SCC) is our native Google Cloud product that helps manage and improve your cloud security and risk posture. As a native offering, SCC is constantly evolving and adding new capabilities that deliver more insight to security practitioners. We’ve just released new capabilities in Security Command Center Premium that enable organizations to improve […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 16 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard to enhance customers’ cloud security posture monitoring. These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway (APIGateway.2, APIGateway.3), AWS Elastic Beanstalk (ElasticBeanstalk.1, ElasticBeanstalk.2), Amazon RDS (RDS.12, RDS.13, RDS.14), Amazon EC2 (EC2.15, EC2.16), AWS CloudTrail (CloudTrail.4, CloudTrail.5), […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now allows customers to rollback the latest customer approved version of ML models deployed to SageMaker hosted endpoints to a previous customer approved version of the model. Customers can now change the status of the deployed model […]
GCP – Tips for migrating from MySQL to Cloud Spanner
Since its initial release in 1995, MySQL has not only been the de-facto database for many data storage needs, but has gathered much attention over the years as one of the most well-recognized databases around when it comes to Relational Database Management Systems and transactional data processing. Any application in retail, e-commerce, or banking has […]
GCP – How Mr. Cooper is using AI to increase speed and accuracy for mortgage processing
Editor’s note: Mr. Cooper Group is an industry-leading mortgage services provider serving customers through servicing, originations, and digital real estate solutions. Using Google Cloud AI and ML solutions, they created a highly reliable, cloud native document analysis and processing platform to process lending documents and unlocked new levels of accuracy and operational efficiency that help […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI is now open source
The AWS Systems Manager Session Manager plugin for the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is now open source. Customers can access the source code for the Session Manager plugin for the AWS CLI on GitHub, contribute to its development, and use it as a building block to embed Session Manager capabilities into their own […]
AWS – New LoRaWAN gateway management features generally available for AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN enables customers to set up a private LoRaWAN network without operating a LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) by connecting their own LoRaWAN devices and gateways directly to the AWS Cloud. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN now supports three new features to help manage LoRaWAN gateways at scale. These new features enable […]
AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – AWS MLOps Framework adds multi-account support to help improve governance and security of ML workloads
AWS Solutions has updated the AWS MLOps Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that streamlines the pipeline deployment process and enforces architecture best practices for machine learning (ML) model productionization. This solution addresses common operational pain points that customers face when adopting multiple ML workflow automation tools. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Updates Service Level Agreement to 99.99%
AWS has updated its service level agreement (SLA) for AWS Transit Gateway to 99.99%. Read More for the details.