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GCP – Blue-sky thinking: how Sky is reimagining their FinOps journey
Google Cloud’s partnership with Sky Group, one of Europe’s largest media and entertainment companies, dates back more than four years to when Sky first became a Google Cloud customer moving diagnostic data from millions of its Sky Q TV boxes to its Google Cloud data platform. In June 2019, a few years into their cloud […]
GCP – Use Cloud SQL Read Replicas to separate your analytics and production workloads
Cloud SQL for SQL Server now includes Read Replicas as a preview release feature. Cloud SQL for MySQL and Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL both include Read Replicas as a general availability (GA) feature. This blog post will walk you through the steps to create a Cloud SQL Read Replica that you can use for your read-only […]
GCP – Exclusive Preview: Google Cloud fireside chat with Dimitri Alperovitch, Founder and Former CTO of CrowdStrike
As I was preparing for my fireside chat with Dmitri Alperovitch, Founder and Former CTO of CrowdStrike and Executive Chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator for the Google Cloud Government Security Summit taking place on Tuesday, July 20th, I was reflecting about recent developments in cybersecurity, Zero Trust best practices – including aspects of Google’s […]
AWS – Amazon Athena expands Apache Hudi support
Amazon Athena has updated its integration with Apache Hudi to support new features and the latest 0.8.0 community release. Hudi is an open-source data management framework used to simplify incremental data processing in S3 data lakes. The updated integration enables you to use Athena to query Hudi 0.8.0 tables managed via Amazon EMR, Apache Spark, Apache […]
AWS – Amazon MQ now supports updating the maintenance window time
You can now update the maintenance window start time for your Amazon MQ brokers. Every Amazon MQ broker has a weekly 2 hour maintenance window during which changes are applied. These changes can include broker version updates, configuration changes, or patching of the operating system and other system software. The maintenance window gives you control […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager now integrates with AWS IoT Greengrass to simplify deployment to fleets of edge devices
Amazon SageMaker Edge Manager allows you to optimize, secure, monitor, and maintain machine learning (ML) models on fleets of smart cameras, robots, personal computers, and mobile devices. With SageMaker Edge Manager, you can use your own model deployment mechanism to bring model packages to edge devices. Starting today, SageMaker Edge Manager also integrates with AWS […]
Azure – Azure VMware Solution now generally available in the Australia Southeast region
Azure VMware Solution has expanded availability to Australia Southeast. With this release Australia Southeast is now the second region within the Australian sovereign area to become available (joining Australia East). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS customers can now view all the labels supported by Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Label Detection makes it easy for customers to detect thousands of objects, scenes, actions, or concepts found in an image or video based on its contents. For example, a […]
AWS – AWS License Manager announces distribution to AWS Organizations ID for AWS Marketplace customers
Today, AWS announced that AWS Marketplace customers can now distribute to their AWS Organizations ID using Managed entitlements in AWS License Manager. AWS Marketplace uses Managed entitlements to enable buyers to govern, track, and distribute entitlements from a centrally managed license. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Automation now supports upgrade of SQL Server 2012
AWS Systems Manager Automation now enables customers to upgrade SQL Server 2012 or later on Amazon EC2. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 will reach extended end-of-support on 7/12/2022. Customers can use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbook to easily upgrade SQL Server 2012 to newer supported versions such as SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. The […]