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AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Open Banking Enablement Service
Open Banking Enablement Service is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. Open Banking Enablement Service creates a strong foundation for a financial institution’s open banking journey. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an open banking transformation […]
GCP – The democratization of data and insights: Expanding Machine Learning Access
In the first blog in this series, we discussed how data availability, data access, and insight access have evolved over time, and what Google Cloud is doing today to help customers democratize the production of insights across organizational personas. In this blog we’ll discuss why artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical to […]
GCP – Turbocharge your software supply chain with Artifact Registry, now GA
As enterprises modernize their applications with improved software delivery processes, they face increasing challenges in managing their dependencies—the artifacts that make up their applications, deployed in accordance with security and compliance best practices. Today, we’re excited to announce that Artifact Registry is generally available. With support for container images, Maven, npm packages, and additional formats […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and more
Amazon QuickSight now supports Waterfall charts. Waterfall charts show how any metric is affected positively or negatively by a series of contributing factors. Dashboard authors can create a waterfall chart by choosing this new visual type from the visuals menu. See here for more details. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources.
Federated queries in Amazon Athena enable users to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. The feature, which is now generally available in the us-east-1, us-west-2, and us-east-2 regions, enables customers to submit a single SQL query that scans data from multiple sources running on-premises or hosted in […]
AWS – Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
Today, Amazon Athena announced general availability of a new query engine version, Athena engine version 2. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Video Streams WebRTC SDK in C now supports client metrics
Amazon Kinesis Video Streams adds client metrics support to its WebRTC SDK in C. Kinesis Video Streams with WebRTC enables developers to build web, mobile, and IoT devices application for real-time media and data streaming. Developers can use this capability to build applications for use cases such as home security and monitoring, camera-enabled doorbells, baby […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports Column Level Security, Column Descriptions, and a new Oracle Connector
Amazon QuickSight has added a powerful new data governance feature: Column Level Security (CLS). This feature compliments the existing Row Level Security (RLS) feature and, in combination, gives authors control over who can access what data within their visualizations. CLS enables dataset owners to apply restrictions on a per column basis. This ensures that users […]
AWS – Apply your business rules to Amazon Personalize recommendations on the fly
Amazon Personalize now allows you to apply business rules to your recommendations on the fly; without any extra cost. Dynamic filters save you time by removing the need to define all possible permutations of your business rules in advance and enable you to use your most recent information to filter recommendations. You control the recommendations […]