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Azure – Public preview: Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation now available in Azure Government
Simplify your cost reporting in Azure government using Azure Cost Management + Billing’s cost allocation. Read More for the details.
GCP – NOAA and Google Cloud: A data match made in the cloud
With Valentine’s Day upon us, there is nothing the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) loves more than having our environmental data open and accessible to all—and the cloud is the perfect match for NOAA’s goal to disseminate its environmental data more broadly than ever before. In 2019, as part of the Google Cloud […]
GCP – Why Yahoo picked BigQuery for scale, performance, and cost
As the owner of Analytics, Monetization and Growth Platforms at Yahoo, one of the core brands of Verizon Media, I’m entrusted to make sure that any solution we select is fully tested across real-world scenarios. Today, we just completed a massive migration of Hadoop and enterprise data warehouse (EDW) workloads to Google Cloud’s BigQuery andLooker. […]
GCP – Migrate to regional backend services for Network Load Balancing
With Network Load Balancing, Google Cloud customers have a powerful tool for distributing external TCP and UDP traffic among virtual machines in a Google Cloud region. In order to make it easier for our customers to manage incoming traffic and to control how the load balancer behaves, we recently added support for backend services to […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora Global Database supports managed planned failover
An Amazon Aurora Global Database is a single database that can span up to 6 AWS Regions, enabling disaster recovery from region-wide outages and low latency global reads. With today’s launch, you can seamlessly change your global cluster’s primary AWS Region, the region that serves writes, while preserving the replication between all regions in the […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management now supports tags on additional resources
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now allows administrators to use tags to manage and secure access to Customer Managed Policies, Instance Profiles, OpenID Connect Providers, SAML Providers, Server Certificates, and Virtual MFAs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now allows you to configure the size of the dataset when auto-generating data quality statistics
When running profile jobs in AWS Glue DataBrew to auto-generate 40+ data quality statistics like column-level cardinality, numerical correlations, unique values, standard deviation, and other statistics, you can now configure the size of the dataset you want analyzed. This allows you to customize your profile to run on x% of the dataset for really large […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew supports transformations for seven additional datatypes
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports seven additional numeric data types including Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Decimal. Customers can now cast columns in these in addition to Timestamp and Date data types. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 M5zn instances, with high frequency processors and 100 Gbps networking are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney)
Starting today, general purpose Amazon EC2 M5zn instances are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore and Sydney) regions. These new instances are a high frequency, high speed and low-latency networking variant of Amazon EC2 M5 instances, powered by custom 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake). M5zn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo […]
Azure – New planned datacenter region in Georgia (East US 3)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region, East US 3, to Georgia, including Availability Zones. Read More for the details.