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AWS – AWS Cloud Map simplifies Amazon EC2 instance registration
You can now register Amazon EC2 instances in AWS Cloud Map by providing EC2 instance identifiers instead of the IP address when using HTTP namespaces. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS tasks, […]
Azure – Azure Data Explorer Streaming Ingestion is generally available
The Streaming Ingestion feature can be used when you need Near Real Time (less than 10 seconds) ingestion with small amounts of data and multiple tables. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lightsail now offers cPanel & WHM instance blueprint
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to create instances with cPanel & WHM preinstalled. With this addition, Amazon Lightsail expands its curated selection of preconfigured application stacks and makes it easier to streamline and automate your server management tasks. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Security Hub launches new automated security controls
AWS Security Hub has released 7 new automated security controls for the AWS Foundational Security Best Practices standard and 12 new controls to our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Database Migration Service now supports enhanced premigration assessments
Starting today, you can use enhanced premigration assessments to identify potential database migration problems before initiating your migration. Once the migration task is set up, a premigration assessment scans both the source and target database schemas and the migration task settings to identify a list of potential issues ranging from a data type mismatch to […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle Supports Oracle Application Express (APEX) Version 20.1
Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports 20.1 version of Oracle Application Express (APEX) for 11.2, 12.1, 12.2, 18c and 19c versions of Oracle Database. Using APEX, developers can build applications entirely within their web browser. Read More for the details.
AWS – Cosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cosine similarity distance metric with k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) to power your similarity search engine. Cosine similarity is used to measure similarities between two vectors, irrespective of their sizes and is most commonly used in information retrieval, image recognition, text similarity, bioinformatics and recommendation systems. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google breaks AI performance records in MLPerf with world’s fastest training supercomputer
Fast training of machine learning (ML) models is critical for research and engineering teams that deliver new products, services, and research breakthroughs that were previously out of reach. Here at Google, recent ML-enabled advances have included more helpful search results and a single ML model that can translate 100 different languages. The latest results from […]
Azure – IoT Plug and Play new features now in public preview
IoT Plug and Play new features in Public Preview to continue simplifying IoT. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies
Azure HDInsight now supports virtual network service endpoint policies, which allow you to filter HDInsight egress virtual network traffic to certain Azure storage accounts. Read More for the details.