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GCP – Hands on with Gemini in BigQuery: Decoding sentiment in customer reviews
Sentiment analysis is a powerful tool that uses natural language processing (NLP) to uncover the underlying emotions (positive, negative, neutral) within text such as customer reviews. This analysis can offer valuable insight into how customers perceive your products, services, and brand overall. Furthermore, by utilizing techniques like topic modeling and keyword extraction, you can identify […]
GCP – Introducing GKE Compliance: Maintain clusters and workloads against industry standards
Maintaining Kubernetes compliance is a moving target, thanks to the platform’s dynamic, distributed nature and its short-lived workloads. Additionally, compliance standards are constantly evolving, and there’s a significant lack of Kubernetes expertise. Today, we’re excited to announce a game-changing feature for our Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Enterprise customers: built-In, fully managed GKE Compliance within GKE […]
GCP – 5 more myths about platform engineering: how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t
In an earlier post, we discussed some persistent myths about platform engineering — what it is, what it isn’t, and ways in which you’re already performing core platform engineering tasks. Here, we will cover five more myths, this time about how platforms are built, what they do, and what they don’t. 6. MYTH: Platform engineering […]
GCP – Helping marketers access data warehousing with Supermetrics Storage
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series showcasing ISVs and data providers that are Built with BigQuery. One of the things customers love about Supermetrics is the wide variety of supported destinations. From Google Sheets and Excel to enterprise data warehouses like Google BigQuery, there’s more choice on where to store and analyze […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Serverless slashes entry cost in half for all collection types
We are excited to offer a new lower entry point for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, which makes it affordable to run small-scale search and analytics workloads. Opensearch Serverless’ compute capacity for indexing and searching data are measured in OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs). Prior to this update, highly-available production deployments required a minimum of 4 OCUs with […]
AWS – Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts
Amazon Connect now provides time zone support for forecasts, making it easier for contact center managers to analyze future demand. With this launch, you can now generate, view, and download forecasts for the time zone in which your business operates. This feature will also automatically adjust forecasts to account for daylight saving changes (e.g., if […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (compatible with MySQL 8.0.36) is generally available
Starting today, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) will support MySQL 8.0.36. In addition to security enhancements and bug fixes in MySQL 8.0.36, Amazon Aurora MySQL 3.07 includes several fixes and general improvements. For more details, refer to the Aurora MySQL 3 and MySQL 8.0.36. To upgrade, you can initiate a minor version […]
AWS – AWS HealthImaging now publishes events to Amazon EventBridge
AWS HealthImaging now supports event-driven architectures by sending event notifications to Amazon EventBridge. By subscribing to HealthImaging events in EventBridge, you can automatically kick-off application workflows such as image quality assessment or de-identification based upon changes to resources in the data store. With EventBridge, developers can take advantage of a serverless event bus to easily […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6id instances are now available in Canada (Central) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances are available in Canada (Central) Region. These instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage. C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro […]
Azure – Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB continuous backup for accounts using Azure Synapse Link
Now Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB customers can migrate to continuous backup. Read More for the details.