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AWS – Announcing R5d instances and lookup cache for Amazon Neptune
Starting today, you can launch your RDF/SPARQL or Apache TinkerPop graph application using R5d instances on Amazon Neptune. The R5d instance type is based on the Amazon EC2 Nitro System and includes local NVMe-based SSD block level storage. Neptune R5d instances introduce a lookup cache that leverages the low-latency NVMe SSD storage to improve read […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify streaming ETL job settings
AWS Glue Studio now allows you to specify the settings for your streaming extract-transform-and-load (ETL) job in the visual job editor. This feature allows you to optimize your AWS Glue streaming ETL jobs for your use case. You can choose the window size for reading data from the data stream, whether to detect the schema […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune simplifies in-console experience to help customers get started faster
Amazon Neptune has simplified the console experience for creating Neptune clusters and Neptune notebooks. The new experience allows you to provision a new cluster and a new notebook instance at the same time. Now, customers only need to take one step to get started with Amazon Neptune. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backint Agent version 1.04 now available
AWS Backint Agent version 1.04 is now available in all commercial regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps Delivery Plans 2.0
With this update, we are including changes to Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines. You can now get total capacity for all teams in an iteration. In addition, we are previewing support for templates in the YAML editor. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports Business Intelligence Suite in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite on SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019 in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can now run SQL Server Integration, Analysis, and Reporting Services on DB instances using the latest major versions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Security Command Center now supports CIS 1.1 benchmarks and granular access control
Security Command Center (SCC) is our native Google Cloud product that helps manage and improve your cloud security and risk posture. As a native offering, SCC is constantly evolving and adding new capabilities that deliver more insight to security practitioners. We’ve just released new capabilities in Security Command Center Premium that enable organizations to improve […]
AWS – AWS Security Hub adds 16 new controls to its Foundational Security Best Practices standard for enhanced cloud security posture monitoring
AWS Security Hub has released 16 new controls for its Foundational Security Best Practice standard to enhance customers’ cloud security posture monitoring. These controls conduct fully automatic checks against security best practices for Amazon API Gateway (APIGateway.2, APIGateway.3), AWS Elastic Beanstalk (ElasticBeanstalk.1, ElasticBeanstalk.2), Amazon RDS (RDS.12, RDS.13, RDS.14), Amazon EC2 (EC2.15, EC2.16), AWS CloudTrail (CloudTrail.4, CloudTrail.5), […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker model registry now supports rollback of deployed models
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now allows customers to rollback the latest customer approved version of ML models deployed to SageMaker hosted endpoints to a previous customer approved version of the model. Customers can now change the status of the deployed model […]
GCP – Tips for migrating from MySQL to Cloud Spanner
Since its initial release in 1995, MySQL has not only been the de-facto database for many data storage needs, but has gathered much attention over the years as one of the most well-recognized databases around when it comes to Relational Database Management Systems and transactional data processing. Any application in retail, e-commerce, or banking has […]