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Azure – General availability: Azure Security Center updates for June 2021
New enhancements and updates released in Azure Security Center in June 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster now supports Ubuntu 20.04
AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easy for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters in the AWS cloud. HPC clusters are collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large scale […]
GCP – Rubin Observatory offers first astronomy research platform in the cloud
This week, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is launching the first preview of its new Rubin Science Platform (RSP) for an initial cohort of astronomers. The observatory, which is located in Chile but managed by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab in Tucson, AZ and SLAC in California, is jointly funded by the NSF and […]
GCP – Creating a unified analytics platform for digital natives
Digital native companies have no shortage of data, which is often spread across different platforms and Software-as-a-service (SaaS) tools. As an increasing amount of data about the business is collected, democratizing access to this information becomes all the more important. While many tools offer in-application statistics and visualizations, centralizing data sources for cross-platform analytics allows […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew now supports writing datasets from job runs directly into the AWS Glue Data Catalog
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports the ability to write datasets created from jobs that run your data preparation recipes directly to the AWS Glue Data Catalog. You can choose to store datasets in Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon RDS (Aurora, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL) tables in the Data Catalog. Read More for […]
Azure – General availability: Skip X.509 certificate proof of possession for IoT Hub and DPS
To make it easier to get started with X.509 authentication with IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Services (DPS), we’re removing the requirement to prove possession of uploaded certificates. Read More for the details.
GCP – Choosing the right machine learning approach for your application
Many of our customers want to know how to choose a technology stack for solving problems with machine learning (ML). There are many choices for these solutions available, some that you can build and some that you can buy. We’ll be focusing on the build side here, exploring the various options and the problems they […]
GCP – New research: Enterprises more confident than ever in cloud security
Cloud-based solutions were a technology life raft for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic as employees took to the virtual office and companies scrambled to adjust to a distributed, remote reality. However, these rapid and substantial changes in the role of cloud technologies on the business came with an increased focus on security. The accelerated move […]
AWS – AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
With this launch, AWS Amplify now supports conditional backend builds, automatic build-time aws-exports.js generation, and a simpler console workflow to re-use backends across multiple frontend branches. AWS Amplify’s continuous deployment service offers frontend developers the fastest way to build and deploy full-stack apps (both the frontend and backend) on every code commit. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
Amplify CLI now supports storing environment variables and secrets to be used in AWS Lambda functions to help separate environment-specific configurations from business logic. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud that often include business logic powered by AWS Lambda functions. Customers use […]