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AWS – Announcing table charts for AWS IoT SiteWise
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports table charts in AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor. With table charts, you can have a compact representation of the latest data from your equipment in a simple table simply by dragging and dropping the data and metrics you are interested in monitoring into a table. For example, you can now easily tabulate […]
AWS – Amazon API Gateway now supports integration with Step Functions StartSyncExecution for HTTP APIs
Customers can now create HTTP APIs that route requests to the new AWS Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now provides up to 30% lower cost and up to 15% improved performance for Spark workloads on Graviton2-based instances
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances with EMR Versions 6.1.0, 5.31.0 and later. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit ArmNeoverse cores to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2. Please read our blog for more […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds inbound telephony for four Latin America countries
Amazon Connect now supports claiming local toll-free and direct inward dial phone numbers in four new Latin American countries in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions. These new local telephony services support customers in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS Announces the Preview of ECS Deployment Circuit Breaker
Today, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) announced in preview, Amazon ECS deployment circuit breaker, for EC2 and Fargate launch types. With this feature, Amazon ECS customers can now automatically roll back unhealthy service deployments without the need for manual intervention. This empowers customers to quickly discover failed deployments, without worrying about resources being consumed […]
AWS – Python Support for Amazon CodeGuru is available in preview
Today, we are excited to announce Python Support for Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer and Profiler to help you improve code quality and optimize performance for Python applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Data Exchange introduces flexible revision access controls for new products
With the launch of the revision access rules, data providers can create products that give subscribers access to a subset of data set revisions based on their subscription start date. Starting today, subscribers are able to choose products that include only historical revisions published before their subscription start date, only future revisions published after their […]
GCP – Machine learning patterns with Apache Beam and the Dataflow Runner, part I
Over the years, businesses have increasingly used Dataflow for its ability to pre-process stream and/or batch data for machine learning. Some success stories include Harambee, Monzo, Dow Jones, and Fluidly. A growing number of other customers are using machine learning inference in Dataflow pipelines to extract insights from data. Customers have the choice of either […]
GCP – Get to know Workflows, Google Cloud’s serverless orchestration engine
Whether your company is processing e-commerce transactions, producing goods or delivering IT services, you need to manage the flow of work across a variety of systems. And while it’s possible to manage those workflows manually or with general-purpose tools, doing so is much easier with a purpose-built product. Google Cloud has two workflow tools in […]
GCP – Getting higher MPI performance for HPC applications on Google Cloud
Most High Performance Computing (HPC) applications such as large-scale engineering simulations, molecular dynamics, and genomics, run on supercomputers or HPC clusters on-premises. Cloud is emerging as a great option for these workloads due to its elasticity, pay per use, and the lower associated maintenance cost. Reducing Message Passing Interface (MPI) latency is one critical element […]