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Azure – Public preview: Start VM on connect feature for Windows Virtual Desktop
You can now keep your VMs deallocated to save cost and have it automatically start up when a user connects. Read More for the details.
GCP – New flexibility; run your Dataprep jobs with BigQuery or Dataflow
Cloud Dataprep by Trifacta is Google Cloud’s intelligent data service for visually exploring, cleaning, and preparing structured and unstructured data for analytics and machine learning. Due to its serverless architecture, Dataprep does not need any infrastructure to deploy or manage, and is fully scalable. Designed and built through a partnership between Google and Trifacta – […]
GCP – Creating a serverless pipeline for real-time market data
Editor’s note: This is the second part in our special series on working with market data in Google Cloud. This post highlights how we leveraged serverless components to build a flexible data ingestion pipeline. Check out the first post on visualizing real-time market data in the cloud. Capital markets firms must rapidly extract insights from […]
AWS – Data management is now generally available in the AWS Amplify Admin UI
The data management experience in the AWS Amplify Admin UI is now generally available with new capabilities for seed data generation, data sorting, and data filtering. Launched at re:Invent 2020, the Amplify Admin UI is an externally hosted console for frontend teams to visually create an app backend and manage the app content and users. […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store now supports removal of parameter labels
AWS announces a new feature of AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store that supports the removal of a label associated with a parameter, to enable customers to reorganize Parameter Store parameters with new labels. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Batch simplifies permissions by introducing Service-Linked Roles
AWS Batch now supports using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service-linked roles, which allows customers to easily delegate permissions to AWS Batch to run their batch computing workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 now allows you to copy Amazon Machine Images across AWS GovCloud, AWS China and other AWS Regions
You can now quickly and conveniently copy Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, AWS China Regions and other AWS regions (also known as partitions) to ensure that your AMIs are available and consistent globally. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru announces a new, lower and predictable Pricing Model for CodeGuru Reviewer
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential defects that are difficult to find in your code and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we are excited to announce, a new repository size-based pricing model with a price reduction of up to 90%, making it easier for […]
AWS – Python Support for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is now generally available
Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer is a developer tool that leverages automated reasoning and machine learning to detect potential defects that are difficult to find in your code and offers suggestions for improvements. Today, we are announcing the general availability of Python support for CodeGuru Reviewer to help you detect coding issues and vulnerabilities in your Python […]
AWS – AWS Glue now supports cross-account reads from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
Streaming ETL jobs in AWS Glue can now read from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams in a different AWS account than the one running the AWS Glue job. This feature allows you to run your ETL jobs from the consumer account rather than the data producer account, keeping all ETL activity in one location and simplifying […]