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Azure – Java Azure Functions support on Linux is now generally available
Developers can now build and publish Java Azure Functions Apps on Linux. Read More for the details.
GCP – Cloud Run min instances: Minimize your serverless cold starts
One of the great things about serverless is its pay-for-what-you-use operating model that lets you scale a service down to 0. But for a certain class of applications, the not-so-great thing about serverless is that it scales down to 0, resulting in latency to process the first request when your application wakes back up again. […]
GCP – AI, Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and more: Free training to take advantage of before 2021
Google Cloud is continuing to offer no-cost learning opportunities until the end of this year to help you build in-demand cloud skills. Read on to find out how you can further your knowledge of AI, Kubernetes, multi-cloud, and more. AI and machine learning Join Lak Lakshmanan, Google Cloud’s Director of Data Analytics and AI Solutions, […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces native console integration with partners (Preview)
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, now supports native integration with select AWS partners from within the Amazon Redshift Console. With the new console partner integration, you can accelerate data onboarding and create valuable business insights in minutes by integrating with select partner solutions. With these solutions, you can bring data from applications like […]
AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, with the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 G4ad instances that provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud. G4ad instances are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and second-generation AMD EPYC processors, and provide up to 45% better price performance over G4dn instances for graphics intensive applications such […]
AWS – Announcing preview of AWS Lake Formation features: Transactions, Row-level Security, and Acceleration
AWS Lake Formation transactions, row-level security, and acceleration are now available for preview. These capabilities are available via new, open, and public update and access APIs for data lakes. These APIs extend AWS Lake Formation’s governance capabilities with row-level security. In addition, with this preview, we introduce governed tables – a new Amazon S3 table […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio makes it easier for data scientists to build and deploy code
Today we are announcing the public preview of EMR Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug data engineering and data science applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, and tools like Spark UI and YARN […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift announces Automatic Table Optimization
Amazon Redshift, the most widely used cloud data warehouse, announces general availability of Automatic Table Optimization, a new self-tuning capability that optimizes the physical design of tables by automatically setting sort and distribution keys to improve query speed. You can use Automatic Table Optimization to get started with Amazon Redshift easily or optimize production workloads […]
AWS – Simplify running Apache Spark jobs with Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS
Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS provides a new deployment option for Amazon EMR that allows you to run Apache Spark on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). If you already use Amazon EMR, you can now run Amazon EMR based applications with other types of applications on the same Amazon EKS cluster to improve resource […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift introduces data sharing (preview)
Amazon Redshift, the most widely used cloud data warehouse, now enables a secure and easy way to share live data across Amazon Redshift clusters. Data sharing enables instant, granular, and high-performance data access across Amazon Redshift clusters without the need to copy or move data. Data Sharing provides live access to the data so that […]