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AWS – Updated digital course on Coursera and edX – AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course on Coursera and edX. If you’re new to the cloud or in a technical or non-technical role such as finance, legal, sales, or marketing, this course provides you with an understanding of fundamental AWS Cloud concepts […]
GCP – New in BigQuery BI Engine: faster insights across popular BI tools
Business analysts working with larger and larger data sets are finding traditional BI methods can’t keep up with their need for speed. BigQuery BI Engine is designed to meet this need by accelerating that most popular dashboards and reports that connect to BigQuery. With the freshest data available, your analysts can identify trends faster, reduce […]
GCP – BigQuery delivers a modern view of materialized views
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of BigQuery materialized views. Materialized views (MV’s) are precomputed views that periodically cache results of a query to provide customers increased performance and efficiency. They significantly boost performance and lowers costs of workloads that have the characteristic of common and repeated queries and are ideal […]
GCP – MongoDB and Google Extend Partnership To Drive Enterprise Cloud Modernization
Just two years ago at Next ‘19, Thomas Kurian shared Google’s philosophy for an Open Cloud strategy to provide a best-in-class, seamless experience for our customers. We embarked on this incredible growth journey by bringing MongoDB Atlas, the popular general purpose database platform, closer to customers by launching Atlas on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Since […]
GCP – MongoDB and Google Partner To Drive Enterprise Cloud Modernization
Just two years ago at Next ‘19, Thomas Kurian shared our philosophy for an Open Cloud strategy to provide a best-in-class, seamless experience for our customers. We embarked on this incredible growth journey by bringing MongoDB Atlas, the popular general purpose database platform, closer to customers by launching Atlas on the Google Cloud Marketplace. Since […]
Azure – Microsoft plans to establish first datacenter region in Indonesia
Microsoft increases its investment in Indonesia’s digital economy, with plans to establish its first datacenter region in the country. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports PostgreSQL 13
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from new features and performance from new features and enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions
AWS Transfer Family, a service that provides fully managed serverless file transfers for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS), is now available in AWS Middle East (Bahrain), AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and AWS Africa (Cape Town) Regions. With this launch, AWS Transfer Family is now available in 19 […]
GCP – How to use a Machine Learning Model from a Google Sheet using BigQuery ML
Spreadsheets are everywhere! They are one of the most useful productivity tools available. They make organizing, calculating, and presenting data a breeze. Google Sheets is the spreadsheet application included in Google Workspace, which has over 2 billion users. Machine learning, or ML for short, has also become an essential business tool. Making predictions with data […]
AWS – Automate quality inspection with Amazon Lookout for Vision — now generally available
Today, Amazon Lookout for Vision is generally available to all AWS customers. Amazon Lookout for Vision is a machine learning (ML) service that spots defects and anomalies in visual representations of manufactured products using computer vision (CV), allowing you to automate quality inspection. Read More for the details.