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AWS – Amazon QuickSight introduces Analysis file menu
Amazon QuickSight launches the Analysis menu for enhanced navigation and efficiency across Analysis Experience. The Analysis menu provides user-friendly interface with a well-organized layout, bringing together all analysis features in one menu. This streamlined organization increases the ease of finding and using different features, thereby speeding up the dashboard creation process and improving the overall […]
AWS – AWS Amplify JavaScript library enhances the performance of Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics
We’re excited to announce significant improvements to the AWS Amplify JavaScript library, by reducing the bundle sizes for our Auth, Storage, Notifications, and Analytics categories. We’ve improved our codebase so that you get leaner bundles, resulting in faster load times and improved performance for your applications. You can benefit from these improvements by installing or […]
AWS – Amazon CodeCatalyst now supports workflows triggered by GitHub pull requests
Today, AWS announces support for starting Amazon CodeCatalyst workflows based on pull request events in linked GitHub repositories. When a workflow is triggered by a GitHub-based pull request, users will also be able to see the name of the PR that triggered it in the CodeCatalyst workflows UI, and click a link that takes them […]
Azure – Generally available: Event Grid upgrade enhancements for AKS
You can now receive and programmatically handle AKS generated upgrade events in Event Grid Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Middle East (Dubai) region
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Zaragoza) regions. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared […]
GCP – How to use custom holidays for time-series forecasting in BigQuery ML
Time-series forecasting is one of the most important models across a variety of industries, such as retail, telecom, entertainment, manufacturing. It serves many use cases such as forecasting revenues, predicting inventory levels and many others. It’s no surprise that time series is one of the most popular models in BigQuery ML. Defining holidays is important […]
GCP – From MySQL to NoSQL: Bitly’s big move to Bigtable
Editor’s note: Bitly, the link & QR Code management platform, migrated 80 billion rows of link data to Cloud Bigtable. Here’s how and why they moved this data from a MySQL database, all in just six days. Our goal at Bitly is simple: Make your life easier with connections. Whether you’re sharing links online, connecting […]
GCP – Three Private Service Connect patterns – Networking basics
Private Service Connect (PSC) allows private communications between service consumers and service producers. In this blog we will discuss a few ways you can use PSC for private communication. Components of Design PSC comprises of several components explained below: Consumers – Access managed services via private IP from within their own VPC. Producers – Have […]
GCP – How JCB is leveraging SRE to lead a successful digital transformation
About three years ago, JCB, one of the biggest Japanese payment companies, launched a project to develop new high-value services with agility. We set up a policy of starting small from scratch without using the existing system, which we call the concept of “Dejima”, where we focused on improving various aspects such as team structure, […]
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications. Read More for the details.