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AWS – Amazon DataZone now supports meaning-based Semantic search
Amazon DataZone now supports meaning-based Semantic search in its business data catalog, enhancing how data users search and discover assets. With this new capability, users can search by concept and related terms, in addition to the existing keyword-based search. Amazon DataZone is a data management service for customers to catalog, discover, share, and govern data […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight now supports Client Credentials OAuth for Starburst through API/CLI
Today, Amazon QuickSight is announcing the general availability of Client Credentials flow based OAuth through API/CLI to connect to Starburst data sources. This launch enables you to create Starburst connections as part of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) efforts with full support for AWS CloudFormation. This type of OAuth solution is used to obtain an […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service launches Enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps
Amazon Location Service now offers enhanced Places, Routes, and Maps functionality, enabling developers to add advanced location capabilities into their applications more easily. These improvements introduce new capabilities and a new streamlined developer experience to support location-based use cases across industries such as healthcare, transportation & logistics, and retail. The enhancements include powerful search functions […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Serverless higher base capacity of 1024 RPUs is now available in additional AWS regions
Amazon Redshift Serverless higher base capacity of up to 1024 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) is now available in the AWS Europe (Frankfurt) and Europe (Ireland) regions. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs, and you pay only for the duration of workloads run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the highest base […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone updates pricing and removes the user-level subscription fee
Today, Amazon DataZone has announced updates to its pricing, which will make the service more accessible and cost-effective for customers. Customers will no longer be charged monthly subscription fee for every configured user. Instead, Amazon DataZone now offers a pay-as-you-go model, where you are charged only for the resources you use. Additionally, DataZone has reduced […]
GCP – How to deploy and serve multi-host gen AI large open models over GKE
As generative AI experiences explosive growth fueled by advancements in LLMs (Large Language Models), access to open models is more critical than ever for developers. Open models are publicly available pre-trained foundational LLMs. Platforms like Google Cloud’s Vertex AI, Kaggle and Hugging Face already provide easy access to open models to data scientists, ML engineers, […]
GCP – Etsy’s Service Platform on Cloud Run cuts deployment time from days to under an hour
Introduction Etsy, a leading ecommerce marketplace for handmade, vintage, and unique items has a passion for delivering innovative and seamless experiences for customers. Like many fast growing companies, Etsy needed to scale their teams, technologies, and tools to keep pace with their business growth. Indeed, between 2012 and 2021, their gross merchandise sales increased over […]
GCP – Generative AI with enterprise controls for business users in 24 Hours
Aible is a leader in generating business impact from AI in less than 30 days, helping teams use AI to extract enterprise value from raw enterprise data with solutions for customer acquisition, churn prevention, demand prediction, preventative maintenance, and more. After previously leveraging BigQuery’s serverless architecture to reduce analytics costs, Aible is now collaborating with […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024
With the technology advances of our cloud-first databases, Google Cloud has become the go-to platform for companies looking to run complex, real-time, business-critical workloads. Don’t just take our word for it. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Google was named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Translytical Data Platforms, Q4 2024 report. We believe this […]
AWS – AWS introduces service versioning and deployment history for Amazon ECS services
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now allows you to view the service revision and deployment history for your long-running applications deployed as Amazon ECS services. This capability makes it easier for you to track and view changes to applications deployed using Amazon ECS, monitor on-going deployments, and debug deployment failures. Typically, customers deploy long […]