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GCP – Zero-ETL approach to analytics on Bigtable data using BigQuery
Modern businesses are increasingly relying on real-time insights to stay ahead of their competition. Whether it’s to expedite human decision-making or fully automate decisions, such insights require the ability to run hybrid transactional analytical workloads that often involve multiple data sources. BigQuery is Google Cloud’s serverless, multi-cloud data warehouse that simplifies analytics by bringing together […]
GCP – Hidden gems of Google BigQuery
BigQuery is amazing. It is one of my favorite tools within Google Cloud. Luckily, it looks like Google feels the same and, to the joy of BigQuery fans, keeps adding new features there. No matter how long I have been working with BigQuery, there is always something new I discover once in a while. Today […]
AWS – AWS Lookout for Metrics announcing increased quota from 50K to 500K metrics
Amazon Lookout for Metrics uses machine learning (ML) to automatically monitor the metrics critical to your businesses with greater speed and accuracy than traditional methods used for anomaly detection. The service makes it easier to diagnose the root cause of anomalies such as unexpected dips in revenue, high rates of abandoned shopping carts, spikes in payment […]
AWS – AWS Comprehend lowers annotation limits for training custom entity recognition models
Amazon Comprehend is making it easier for customers to get started with custom entity recognition by reducing the annotation requirements for training their models. Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that provides APIs to extract key phrases, contextual entities, events, and sentiment from text. Entities refer to things in your document such as […]
Azure – Public preview: .NET 7 support in Linux Consumption Plan
Announcing the .NET 7 support for Azure functions in isolated process in public preview for Linux Consumption Plan. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix
General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: FIPS compliant nodes for Windows in AKS
You can now create Windows-based node pools with FIPS 140-2 enabled. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: AKS node pool user start/stop feature
You can now completely stop specific user node pools and pick up later where you left off with a switch of a button, saving time and costs. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Policy blocking the deployment of vulnerable images
Use an Azure Policy to block the deployment of vulnerable images on AKS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Load Testing in West US 2
Azure Load Testing is in public preview in West US 2. Read More for the details.