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GCP – Telegraph Media Group unlocks insights with a Single Customer View on Google Cloud
In today’s data-driven world, organizations across industries are seeking ways to gain a deeper understanding of their customers. A Single Customer View (SCV) — also known as a 360-degree customer view — has emerged as a powerful concept in data engineering, enabling companies to consolidate and unify customer data from multiple siloed sources. By integrating […]

GCP – Meta Llama 3 Available Today on Google Cloud Vertex AI
We are pleased to announce that Meta Llama 3 will be available today on Vertex AI Model Garden. Like its predecessors, Llama 3 is freely licensed for research as well as many commercial applications. Llama 3 is available in two sizes, 8B and 70B, as both a pre-trained and instruction fine-tuned model. Tune, Distill, and […]

Azure – Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for April 2024
Three features now available in GA enable you to seamlessly log inference data to a central location, set up event-driven applications, processes, or workflows based on Azure Machine Learning events, and utilize lifecycle management of features from creation through archival. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Mainframe Modernization introduces advanced configurations for runtime environments
We are excited to announce that AWS Mainframe Modernization service is now available with greater control of managed runtime environments that run modernized mainframe applications. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0 now available
We’re excited to announce the release of the SimSpace Weaver app SDK v1.17.0. This release reorganizes the app SDK distributable package to simplify onboarding for new users and contains ready-to-use samples that you can use as templates for your projects. Read More for the details.

AWS – Stream data into Snowflake using Amazon Data Firehose and Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming
Amazon Data Firehose (Firehose) now offers direct integration with Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming. Firehose enables customers to reliably capture, transform, and deliver data streams into Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Splunk, and other destinations for analytics. With this new feature, customers can stream clickstream, application, and AWS service logs from multiple sources, including Kinesis Data Streams, to […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks supports interactive data exploration and SQL query execution
Amazon SageMaker Studio’s JupyterLab notebooks now come with a built-in SQL extension with which data scientists can seamlessly discover, explore, and transform data from multiple data sources using SQL and Python right from the notebooks. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing the AWS PDK blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst
Today, AWS announces the AWS Project Development Kit (PDK) blueprints in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The AWS PDK provides building blocks for common patterns along with development tools to manage and build your projects. You can now use the AWS PDK in CodeCatalyst through the PDK blueprints, enabling you to compose one or more such blueprints together […]

AWS – Announcing Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) in AWS Artifact
Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACRs) for AWS products and services are now available on AWS Artifact, a self-service portal for AWS compliance-related information. ACRs are documents that demonstrate the accessibility of AWS services. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config advanced queries support 35 new resource types
AWS Config supports 35 new resource types in advanced queries. Advanced queries within AWS Config is a feature that allows you to search the current configuration metadata and compliance state of your AWS resources based on their configuration properties. Read More for the details.