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GCP – Freedom of choice: 9TB SSDs bring ultimate IOPS/$ to Compute Engine VMs
Applications that perform low-latency, I/O-intensive operations need to run on virtual machines with high-performance storage that’s tightly coupled with compute. This is especially important for applications built around real-time analytics, e-commerce, gaming, social media, and advertising platforms. Custom machine types in Compute Engine not only let you attach high-performance Local SSD, but give you the […]
Azure – General availability: Azure mobile app now supports Azure Government
You can now manage and monitor you Azure Government subscriptions with the Azure mobile app. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now helps you automate table creation by supporting point-in-time recovery and tag settings in AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, now helps you automate table creation by supporting point-in-time recovery (PITR) and tag settings in AWS CloudFormation. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lake Formation is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region
You can now use AWS Lake Formation in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS DeepComposer launches Transformer Notebook on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the launch of a new Transformer notebook on GitHub. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get hands-on with the latest generative AI techniques expand their machine learning skills. The Transformer is a state-of-the-art model that works with sequential data such as genomic data or stock prices. By […]
AWS – AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development. AWS Glue provides both visual and code-based interfaces to make data integration easier so that you can start […]
Azure – General availability: Ingest up to 10 files and blobs with the new Azure Data Explorer intuitive UX
Azure Data Explorer ingestion wizard allows you to automatically create a table and ingest data from up to 10 files or blobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Data Exchange enables subscribers to export full revisions
AWS Data Exchange now allows subscribers to export full data set revisions to Amazon S3 in a single export job. Starting today, subscribers who want to export all assets within a data set revision can do so using the AWS Data Exchange console or programmatically using the AWS Data Exchange API. This functionality eliminates the […]
GCP – Don’t fear the authentication: Google Drive edition
There are times when I’m building an application on GCP when I don’t want to use a more traditional datastore like Cloud SQL or Bigtable. Right now, for example, I’m building an app that allows non-technical folks to easily add icons into a build system. I’m not going to write a front-end from scratch, and […]
Azure – Announcing Power BI Embedded Generation 2 public preview
We are announcing the second generation of Power BI Embedded, referred to as Embedded Gen 2, is available for its Azure subscribers to use during the public preview period. All of the Power BI Embedded Gen 1 capabilities such as pausing and resuming the capacity, are preserved in Gen 2 and the price per SKU […]