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AWS – Autocomplete suggestions are now available on Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2
Auto-complete suggestion and syntax error checking is now available in Amazon Redshift Query Editor V2. This feature empowers you to build queries more efficiently and accurately, as you can quickly access and utilize relevant database object names without the need to remember each detail by providing SQL syntax or database object name suggestions, either within […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon CodeWhisperer customization capability (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the preview of an Amazon CodeWhisperer customization capability. With this new capability, you can customize CodeWhisperer to generate more precise suggestions by including your organization’s internal APIs, libraries, classes, methods, and best practices. With this capability, CodeWhisperer can save developers hours typically spent examining previously written code or internal documentation to understand how […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports scheduled workflow triggers
Today, Amazon Web Services announces support for scheduling Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows to be run at predetermined times. A workflow is an automated procedure that describes how to build, test, and deploy your code as part of a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) system. A workflow defines a series of steps, or actions, to take […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for four new language analyzers
Amazon OpenSearch Service adds support for four new language analyzer plugins- Nori (Korean), Sudachi (Japanese), Pinyin (Chinese), and STConvert Analysis (Chinese) plugins. These are available as optional plugins that you can associate with your OpenSearch Service clusters. Read More for the details.
AWS – Metric Streams adds a quick setup experience for AWS Partner destinations
Amazon CloudWatch announces a new quick setup experience for AWS Partner destinations in the CloudWatch Metric Streams console. With Metric Streams, you can create a continuous, near real-time stream of metrics to a destination of your choice. With this new simplified getting-started experience you can create a Metric Stream to an AWS Partner destination in […]
GCP – Introducing Actions and Alerts in Advanced API Security
APIs provide direct access to application functionality and data, making them a powerful developer tool. Unfortunately, that also makes them a favorite target for threat actors. Proactively identifying API security threats is top of mind for 60% of IT leaders according to Google Cloud’s 2022 API Security Research Report. Most of the current approaches to […]
GCP – Windows Server 2012 is welcome on Google Cloud, even after End of Support
Windows Server 2012 reached End of Support (“EOS”) on October 10, 2023. This means that Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, patches, or technical support for this operating system version. For those of you purchasing Extended Security Updates (ESUs) from Microsoft to continue to receive critical security updates, you can applythem to your VMs […]
GCP – Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware transport, to the ecosystem
At Google, we have a long history of solving problems at scale using Ethernet, and rethinking the transport layer to satisfy demanding workloads that require high burst bandwidth, high message rates, and low latency. Workloads such as storage have needed some of these attributes for a long time, however, with newer use cases such as […]
GCP – How we’ll build sustainable, scalable, secure infrastructure for an AI-driven future
Editor’s note:Today, we hear from Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Google VP and Technical Fellow and Amin Vahdat, VP/GM. Partha delivered a keynote address today at the OCP Global Summit, an annual conference for leaders, researchers, and pioneers in the open hardware industry. Partha served on the OCP Board of Directors from 2020 to earlier this year, when […]
GCP – Stanford center makes comprehensive COVID dataset available on Google Cloud
As an interdisciplinary research center, Stanford’s Center for Population Health Sciences (PHS) aims to improve the health of populations by bringing together researchers and data to understand and address social, environmental, behavioral, and biological factors on both a domestic and global scale. This entails making large-scale biomedical datasets available for research and analysis while keeping […]