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AWS – Amazon Athena now presents query execution plans to aid tuning
Amazon Athena users can now view the execution plan for their queries. When querying large, complex datasets, users are often unaware of how their query will be executed or how optimizations will impact performance. Now generally available for Amazon Athena, the EXPLAIN statement helps users understand and improve the efficiency of their queries. Read More […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – RegCloud: ControllerView® on AWS
RegCloud: ControllerView® on AWS is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from AxiomSL, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. RegCloud offers a set of cloud-native technical and operational capabilities that enable financial institutions to harness the power of the cloud for their risk and regulatory data management and reporting initiatives. Customers […]
AWS – Detect abnormal equipment behavior with Amazon Lookout for Equipment — now generally available
Today, Amazon Lookout for Equipment is generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Lookout for Equipment is a machine learning (ML) industrial equipment monitoring service that detects abnormal equipment behavior so customers can take action and avoid unplanned downtime. Read More for the details.
AWS – Customers can now use ServiceNow to track operational items related to AWS resources
Starting today, customers can use ServiceNow as a single place to track operational items from AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter. ServiceNow users can now view, investigate, and resolve operational items related to their AWS resources, while using their existing workflows in ServiceNow. Additionally, they can use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks from ServiceNow to remediate known […]
AWS – Amazon Fraud Detector automates sampling for imbalanced model training datasets
Amazon Fraud Detector is a fully managed service that makes it easy to identify potentially fraudulent online activities, such as the creation of fake accounts or online payment fraud, using customized machine learning (ML) models. To train an ML model, customers provide a dataset that contains examples of legitimate and fraudulent events related to the […]
AWS – eksctl now supports creating node groups using resource specifications and dry run mode
eksctl, the official CLI for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), now lets you create node groups inside an Amazon EKS cluster by simply providing node requirements in vCPUs, memory, or GPUs. Additionally, eksctl now lets you preview the cluster configuration before creating a new cluster or a new node group by using the new […]
GCP – Making access to SaaS applications more secure with BeyondCorp Enterprise
An explosion of SaaS applications over the last decade has fundamentally changed the security landscape of modern enterprises. According to the Cloud Security Threat Report1, the average organization uses hundreds, possibly upwards of 1,000 of SaaS applications, many of these unsanctioned by IT departments, and this number is only forecasted to increase. Today, we see […]
GCP – Fintech startup, Branch makes data analytics easy with BigQuery
Editor’s note: Here we take a look at how Branch, a fintech startup, built their data platform with BigQuery and other Google Cloud solutions that democratized data for their analysts and scientists. As a startup in the fintech sector, Branch helps redefine the future of work by building innovative, simple-to-use tech solutions. We’re an employer […]
GCP – Keyless API authentication—Better cloud security through workload identity federation, no service account keys necessary
Organizations often have applications that run on multiple platforms, on-premises or cloud. For such applications that call Google Cloud Platform (GCP) APIs, a common challenge admins face is securing long-lived service account keys used to authenticate to GCP. Examples of such applications might include: Analytics workloads running on AWS or Azure that access sensitive datasets […]
GCP – Dunzo: How transforming the delivery experience with Google Maps Platform helped reduce support calls by 90%
Editor’s note: Today’s post is a Q&A with Brijesh Bharadwaj, Growth and User-facing products lead at Dunzo, on how they’re using the On-demand Rides & Deliveries solution in Google Maps Platform. Dunzo is a local e-commerce platform in India on a mission to deliver convenience, choice, and control to everyday living. The On Demand Rides […]