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GCP – What’s happening in BigQuery: Time unit partitioning, Table ACLs and more
At Google Cloud, we’re invested in building data analytics products with a customer-first mindset. Our engineering team is thrilled to share recent feature enhancements and product updates that we’ve made to help you get even more value out of BigQuery, Google Cloud’s enterprise data warehouse. To support you in writing more efficient queries, BigQuery released […]
GCP – Cloud Code makes YAML easy for hundreds of popular Kubernetes CRDs
When developing a service to deploy on Kubernetes, do you sometimes feel like you’re more focused on your YAML files than on your application? When working with YAML, do you find it hard to detect errors early in the development process? We created Cloud Code to let you spend more time writing code and less […]
GCP – How to create and deploy a model card in the cloud with Scikit-Learn
Machine learning models are now being used to accomplish many challenging tasks. With their vast potential, ML models also raise questions about their usage, construction, and limitations. Documenting the answers to these questions helps to bring clarity and shared understanding. To help advance these goals, Google has introduced model cards. Model cards aim to provide […]
AWS – Announcing cross-database queries for Amazon Redshift (preview)
Amazon Redshift now supports the ability to query across databases in a Redshift cluster. With cross-database queries, you can seamlessly query data from any database in the cluster, regardless of which database you are connected to. Cross-database queries can eliminate data copies and simplify your data organization to support multiple business groups on the same […]
AWS – AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections
AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in the Glue Data Catalog. A configuration option allows you to specify if you want the crawler […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Budgets Actions
Starting today, you can define the action you want to take in your account when a budget exceeds its threshold (actual or forecasted amounts). This level of control will allow you to reduce unintentional overspending in your account. You can choose among three action types: Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy, Service Control policy (SCPs), […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports concurrent major version upgrades of read replicas
Starting today, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL will concurrently upgrade all of your in-region read replicas along with the upgrade of your primary database instance during major version upgrades of PostgreSQL. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports one click drill downs for real-time metrics
Amazon Connect real-time metric dashboards now allow you to drill down into queue and routing profile data in one click. For example, if a queue has a long wait time, call center managers can create a table in one click to view agents in that queue. With this table, they can quickly identify agents in […]
AWS – Achieve up to 52% better price/performance with Amazon RDS using new Graviton2 instances
AWS Graviton2-based database instances are now generally available for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Graviton2 instances provide up to 35% performance improvement and up to 52% price/performance improvement for RDS open source databases depending on database engine, version, and workload. You can launch these database instances when using Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Budgets price reduction
To coincide with our new AWS Budgets Actions launch, we are reducing the price for budget-days from $.02 to free. Before this reduction, customers received 62 free budget-days per month before paying $.02 per budget-day for all active budgets within a regular account or consolidated billing family. Customers who simply want to monitor their cost, […]