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GCP – U.S. Navy Technology with Google Cloud and STS Jumpstart Expansion Across DoD and Beyond
The U.S. Navy spends billions annually to fight rust and corrosion on its ships. Of course, this is to be expected given its vessels are largely made of steel. However, inspections of ships, aircraft and vehicles are a time-consuming and critical part of keeping the U.S. Navy at top performance. To address this issue, Google […]
GCP – Testing Dataflow pipelines with the Cloud Spanner emulator
The Cloud SDK includes a local, in-memory Cloud Spanner Emulator, which you can use to develop and test your applications for free without creating a GCP Project or a billing account. The emulator offers the same APIs as the Cloud Spanner production service and is intended for local development and testing, not for production deployments. […]
AWS – Amazon Forecast now supports generating predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points
Today we are excited to announce that Amazon Forecast can now generate predictions for 5X more items using 3X more historic data points, increasing the number of items and the amount of historic information that your forecasting models can learn from and predict. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Elastic File System now supports longer resource identifiers
Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) will support the use of longer resource identifiers (IDs) for newly created file systems and mount targets. You can opt into this change by using the API, Command Line Interface (CLI), Cloud Development Kit (CDK), and Amazon EFS Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports April 2021 Release Updates (RU)
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports the April 2021 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 12.2, 18c, and 19c. The April 2021 Patch Set Update (PSU) for Oracle Database 12.1 will be launched soon. Read More for the details.
GCP – Keep your budgets flexible with configurable budget periods
TL;DR – Automation makes managing budgets easier and the Budget API now supports configurable budget time periods for even more flexibility! As if I wasn’t going to re-use this template for a terrible Python joke Even though we just walked through some of the basics of using the Budget API, there’s a new feature that’s […]
AWS – Announcing enhancements to Amazon Rekognition text detection – support for more words, higher accuracy, and lower latency
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning powered image and video analysis service that can identify objects and concepts, people, faces, inappropriate content, as well as detect text. Rekognition text detection detects and reads text in an image, and returns bounding boxes for each word found. Starting today, Rekognition can detect up to 100 words in […]
Azure – General availability: Azure ExpressRoute: 5 New Peering Locations Available
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. The service is now available in 5 new peering locations. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints
AWS X-Ray now supports VPC endpoints. With this feature, you can communicate with X-Ray service from your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing that traffic to the public internet. VPC endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, an AWS technology that enables private communication between your VPC and AWS services, like X-Ray, on the private AWS […]
AWS – Manage Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) service quotas through the Service Quotas console
Now, you can manage service quotas for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service, through the Service Quotas console. Read More for the details.