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AWS – Amazon ECR repository creation templates are now generally available
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is announcing the general availability of repository creation templates, which allow customers to specify initial configuration for repositories that are automatically created by ECR via pull through cache and replication. ECR customers can specify configuration for these repositories, including encryption settings, lifecycle policies, and repository permissions. This enables customers to […]
AWS – CloudWatch RUM PutRumEvents API now supports data event logging in AWS CloudTrail
CloudWatch RUM, which helps you perform real user monitoring by collecting client-side data of application performance and user interactions in real time, now supports AWS CloudTrail data event logging for PutRumEvents API, enabling enhanced data visibility for governance, compliance, and operational auditing. Each data item collected using RUM web client or “app monitor“ is considered […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms launches new capabilities for entity resolution, ML modeling, privacy, and analysis controls
Today, AWS Clean Rooms announces four new enhancements: the general availability of AWS Entity Resolution on Clean Rooms, additional privacy controls for data analyses, a feature to configure which collaborators receive analyses results, and the ability to generate seed data for lookalike modeling using SQL. These capabilities help you improve data matching, and give you […]
AWS – Announcing 24 months support for Amazon EMR
Today, Amazon EMR announces 24 month support for Amazon EMR release versions. Amazon EMR aims to get the latest open-source versions of its Core Engines and Open Table Formats into your hands within 90 days from their upstream release. This extended support period gives customers peace of mind and a predictable timeline for budgeting, testing, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 D3en instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3en instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. D3en instances are ideal for workloads including distributed / clustered file systems, big data and analytics, and high capacity data lakes. With D3en instances, you can easily migrate from previous-generation D2 instances or […]
GCP – Shiseido: building a data analysis platform using BigQuery for 80% cost savings
The cosmetics industry is one of the industries that has been strongly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as people’s habits changed — both in how the shop and how they want to show up, whether that’s at work, to a party, or just out and about. Even as our lives have found a new normal […]
GCP – Understanding Airflow DAG and task concurrency on Google Cloud Composer
Apache Airflow is a popular tool for orchestrating data workflows. Google Cloud offers a managed Airflow service called Cloud Composer, a fully managed workflow orchestration service built on Apache Airflow that enables you to author, schedule, and monitor pipelines. Despite Airflow’s popularity and ease of use, the nuances of DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) and task […]
GCP – Leverage enterprise data with Denodo and Vertex AI for generative AI applications
Leveraging enterprise data for generative AI and large language models (LLMs) presents significant challenges related to data silos, quality inconsistencies, privacy and security concerns, compliance with data regulations, capturing domain-specific knowledge, and mitigating inherent biases. Organizations must navigate the complexities of consolidating fragmented data sources, ensuring data integrity, and addressing ethical considerations. Techniques like retrieval […]
GCP – APT45: North Korea’s Digital Military Machine
Written by: Taylor Long, Jeff Johnson, Alice Revelli, Fred Plan, Michael Barnhart Executive Summary APT45 is a long-running, moderately sophisticated North Korean cyber operator that has carried out espionage campaigns as early as 2009. APT45 has gradually expanded into financially-motivated operations, and the group’s suspected development and deployment of ransomware sets it apart from […]
GCP – Powering a sustainable future with ChromeOS
In a world of rapid change and pressing environmental challenges, action is needed now more than ever. With 96% of people across the globe wanting sustainability to be a part of their lives,1 businesses need to take action. Last year, I shared ways we can make a change by reducing the amount of e-waste we […]