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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.
AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN Now Supports Tagging Resources Upon Creation and Resource-Level Permissions
You can now tag your AWS Site-to-Site VPN connections, Virtual Private Gateways, and Customer Gateways upon creation. You can do this when creating these resources through the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). By tagging resources at the time of creation, you can eliminate the need to run custom tagging […]
GCP – A Cloud developer advocate’s top infrastructure sessions at Next OnAir
It’s week 3 of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir, and this week is all about infrastructure and operations. This is an exciting space where we have both mature services and rapid improvements. We have a bunch of great talks this week and I hope you will enjoy them and learn a lot! After checking out […]
GCP – In hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the network really matters
According to recent research1, among organizations adopting public cloud, a full 70% say that they will use a combination of public cloud and on-premises data centers. At the same time, 21% of business users reported that poor network connectivity negatively impacts web or cloud-based application performance2. How can you ensure that your hybrid or multi-cloud […]
Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop Azure portal and Microsoft Teams integrations are generally available
It’s now easier to deploy and manage Windows Virtual Desktop as well as provide seamless meeting and collaboration experiences through integration with Microsoft Teams. Read More for the details.