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GCP – VMware scales multi-cloud security with Workforce Identity Federation
Working in multi-cloud environments gives organizations more flexibility to build and optimize applications. However, operating in multiple environments can also introduce new complexities and risks. VMware provides a wide range of solutions to help address them, and as a multi-cloud organization ourselves, we see some of our customers’ challenges firsthand. Maintaining compliance across all of […]
GCP – Expanding your Bigtable architecture with change streams
Engineers use Bigtable to hold vast amounts of transactional and analytical information as part of their data workflow. We are excited about the release of Bigtable change streams that will enhance these data workflows for event-based architectures and offline processing. In this article, we will cover the new feature and a few example applications that […]
GCP – How to optimize your existing queries with search indexes
In October 2022, BigQuerylaunched the search indexes and SEARCH function that enable using Google Standard SQL to efficiently pinpoint specific data elements in unstructured text and semi-structured data. In a previous blog post, we demonstrated the performance gains achievable by utilizing search indexes on the SEARCH function. Today, BigQuery expands the optimization capabilities to a […]
GCP – Applying Generative AI to product design with BigQuery DataFrames
For any company, naming a product or service is complex and time-consuming. This process is particularly challenging in the pharmaceutical industry. Typically, companies start by brainstorming and researching thousands of names. They must ensure that the names are unique, compliant with regulations, and easy to pronounce and remember. With so many factors to consider, multiplied […]
AWS – Amazon SNS FIFO topics now support message delivery to Amazon SQS Standard queues
You can now subscribe Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Standard queues to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) First-In-First-Out (FIFO) topics. Thus, from a single SNS FIFO topic, you can now deliver messages to SQS Standard queues, which offer best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery, as well as to SQS FIFO queues, which support strict ordering and […]
AWS – Amplify Studio now offers full support of GraphQL APIs
AWS Amplify Studio is excited to announce full support for GraphQL APIs – all developers using GraphQL APIs created either with Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI will now fully have access to all of Studio’s features. This includes Form Builder, Figma to Code UI generation, and Data Manager. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn instances now available in Africa (Cape Town) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn and X2iedn instances are available in Africa (Cape Town) region. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Ice Lake) and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now provides action last accessed information for more than 140 services to help you refine the permissions of your IAM roles. You can review action last accessed information, identify unused permissions, and refine to scope down the access of your IAM roles to only the actions that they use […]
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for September
Three new features now available in Public Preview enable you to utilize vision-based models in the model catalog, enjoy seamless integration with LLMOps through the Prompt Flow SDK/CLI and VS Code extensions, and monitor LLM completions for safety and quality metrics. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 C7i instances
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7i instances powered by custom 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code-named Sapphire Rapids). These custom processors, available only on AWS, offer up to 15% better performance over comparable x86-based Intel processors utilized by other cloud providers. Read More for the details.