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GCP – Cloud SQL for SQL Server—now with Active Directory authentication
Windows Authentication is now supported on Cloud SQL for SQL Server. We’ve launched seamless integration with Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AD), now in public preview. This capability is a critical requirement to simplify identity management and streamline the migration of existing SQL Server workloads that rely on AD for access control. […]
AWS – Announcing new training for building data lakes on AWS
We are pleased to announce the launch of Building Data Lakes on AWS. Data lakes enable organizations to generate business value by identifying and acting upon opportunities for business growth. This new one-day classroom course will help you practice building a data lake in a hands-on environment. An expert instructor will teach you how to […]
AWS – AWS Data Exchange providers can now copy product metadata from their existing products to a new product
AWS Data Exchange now enables providers to copy descriptions, data sets, and public offers from their existing products to a new product. With this launch, providers can select any existing product, published or unpublished, and copy all of its details to a new draft product, which they can then modify as needed and publish within […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds Model Explainability
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, which makes it easy to create highly accurate machine learning models, now provides a model explainability report generated by Amazon SageMaker Clarify, making it easier to understand and explain how the models you create with SageMaker Autopilot make predictions. Explainability reports include feature importance values so you can understand how each attribute […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service v2
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) v2, in addition to v1, for all IMDS calls to EMR clusters. Instance metadata is data about your instance that you can use to configure or manage the running instance. IMDSv1 is fully secure and AWS will continue to support it. But IMDSv2 adds new […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – AMI Factory
AMI Factory is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Migration Competency Partner. AMI Factory helps customers integrate and build any type of AMIs with custom configurations, setting security standards for operating system (OS)-level benchmarks and vulnerability scans based on customer requirements within a few hours. Customers that […]
GCP – Auto Trader: Charting the road from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Auto Trader, UK’s largest online automotive marketplace. Auto Trader aims to improve the process of buying and selling vehicles in the UK, providing a platform for consumers to connect with retailers and manufacturers. Here’s how Auto Trader used Google’s Cloud SQL on their database migration journey from on-premises into […]
GCP – Take a tour of best practices for Cloud Bigtable performance and cost optimization
To serve your various application workloads, Google Cloud offers a selection of managed database options: Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner for relational use cases, Firestore and Firebase for document data, Memorystore for in-memory data management, and Cloud Bigtable, a wide-column, NoSQL key-value database. Bigtable was designed by Google to store, analyze, and manage petabytes of […]
GCP – How Google Cloud can help the Public Sector embrace zero trust
The past several months have been marked by a series of major cyber attacks targeting the identity and email systems of tens of thousands of organizations. In light of these events, Google Cloud asked, “How can we help governments reduce their risk from cyber attacks?” The answer? Use a zero trust approach for security. We […]
GCP – How Cloud Technology Can Help Support Economic Recovery
Putting COVID-19 relief funds to work Americans are growing more and more hopeful that the end of the pandemic is in sight. The new COVID-19 relief dollars flowing into state and local budgets represent a tremendous opportunity to impact communities and build a foundation for growth. And as a result, agency leaders need to swiftly […]