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GCP – Firestore adds point-in-time recovery and scheduled backups
We are excited to announce the launch of two new disaster recovery features for Firestore: point-in-time recovery (PITR) and scheduled backups. These features will provide data protection against human errors and disasters. This is in addition to Firestore’s automatic and redundant data replication, which allows the service to guarantee up to 99.999% SLA availability with […]

GCP – How Vertex AI empowered our Supply Chain Science team at Wayfair
For the past few years, Wayfair has been migrating from its on-premises data centers to Google Cloud. As part of this transition, we explored Vertex AI as an end-to-end ML platform and adopted several of its components, including Vertex AI Pipelines, Trainingand Feature Store as our preferred solution for new ML solutions going forward. Building […]

GCP – Actuate your data in real time with new Bigtable change streams
Cloud Bigtable is a highly scalable, fully managed NoSQL database service that offers single-digit millisecond latency and an availability SLA up to 99.999%. It is a good choice for applications that require high throughput and low latency, such as real-time analytics, gaming, and telecommunications. Cloud Bigtable change streams is a feature that allows you to […]

GCP – Delivering greater insights for insurance underwriters with BigQuery geospatial analytics
About CNA A key goal for insurers is to provide the best match between customer need, product offering and the premium charged. However, the price charged and eventual profitability is partially dependent on how well the insurer understands and assesses the risk being insured. This is usually a time-consuming and often subjective process that relies […]

GCP – Learn how Cloud SQL for MySQL Enterprise Plus edition can accelerate your MySQL workloads
As a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgresSQL and SQL Server, Cloud SQL lowers the cost of database ownership in several ways: it makes it easy to set up and operate a highly available database as well as scale with replicas, it provides security, it automates database upgrades and maintenance, and it manages […]

Azure – Public Preview: Azure Container Storage Updates: Expanded regions and performance options
Azure Container Storage (in preview) offers volume management built natively for containers. With the latest updates you can now deploy in 26 regions, use volume resize & cloning and choose from an expanded list of Disk SKUs. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Step Functions launches enhanced error handling
AWS Step Functions announces the availability of enhanced error handling capabilities in your AWS Step Functions workflows to help you identify errors more clearly and provide you with fine-grained control over your retry strategies. AWS Step Functions is a visual workflow service capable of orchestrating 12,000+ API actions from over 220 AWS services to automate […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now provides a new quick Studio setup experience
Today, we are excited to announce the new quick Studio setup for Amazon SageMaker. This new quick setup allows you to create SageMaker Studio with default pre-sets in minutes for individual users. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConnect adds new Amazon CloudWatch metrics
Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaConnect has additional metrics for improved visibility into your video streams and upfront error detection. The new metrics indicate consecutive packet drops, consecutive packets not recovered, jitter, latency, and up time. You can easily monitor your live video stream source metrics in the AWS Management Console, via Amazon CloudWatch, or via […]
AWS – Amazon Detective adds Amazon EKS security investigations to AWS Workshop Studio
You can now learn how to use Amazon Detective to conduct security investigations for threats detected in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) and AWS security findings in the latest Amazon Detective Workshop Studio. These new modules will help you understand how to dive deep quickly on container threats but also broaden your investigations to […]