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GCP – BlackRock scales its data operations with a unified platform on Google Cloud
The investment management business is more data-driven than ever. The Portfolio Management Group (PMG) at BlackRock — the world’s largest financial asset management company — is responsible for a wide range of investment strategies, using data at all stages in the process to make investment decisions, manage multi-asset portfolio risk, and keep track of portfolio […]
GCP – Increasing robustness of serving public DNS names using multi-provider setups
DNS is a foundational component of Internet-delivered applications. When DNS outages occur they cause service outages and can even cause issues with monitoring and remediation of problems. This is exacerbated with multi-tenant setups in Cloud where services from many providers are impacted since they all share the underlying DNS infrastructure. While a single-provider deployment is […]
GCP – Gruppo Maggioli reimagines public administration with Google Cloud
If you want to get the latest news on city-sponsored events, apply for a building permit, or pay for a parking ticket in Italy, you will likely interact withGruppo Maggioli. The 100-year-old, family-managed company provides software solutions to more than 5,000 Italian municipalities, as well as other organizations. In recent years, the company expanded operations […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Customers in AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region can now use AWS Transfer Family. Read More for the details.
GCP – All 161 things we announced at Google Cloud Next ‘23 – a recap
This week we hosted Google Cloud Next in San Francisco! It was great to be back together in-person with the Google Cloud community and ecosystem. Highlights included the opening keynote, packed with breakthrough product announcements and customer stories, which you can also watch in just 13 minutes. Also check out the fun and inspirational developer […]
AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports concurrent processing for data transfers from SAP applications
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports concurrent processing and setting configurable page sizes for data transfers from SAP applications to AWS services. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Macie is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
You can now use Amazon Macie to discover and help protect sensitive data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Sagemaker Real-time Inference now supports response streaming
Customers can now continuously stream inference responses back to the client when using SageMaker real-time inference to help you build interactive experiences for various generative AI applications such as chatbots, virtual assistants, and music generators. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server lets you stop and start your database instance on demand
Starting today, Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server makes it simple to stop and start your database instances. This lets you save costs by stopping a database instance when it does not need to be running, such as when it is used for development or test purposes. Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server is a […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports additional data connectors with JDBC
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports eight new JDBC connectors for Salesforce, Databricks, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon Aurora. Additionally, importing data from Snowflake without a storage intermediary and OAuth 2.0 connectivity for Salesforce and Snowflake are now supported, enabling customers to seamlessly import data from a variety of sources. SageMaker Canvas is […]