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AWS – AWS Glue enables enhanced Apache Spark capabilities for AWS Lake Formation tables with full table access
AWS Glue now supports read and write operations from AWS Glue 5.0 Apache Spark jobs on AWS Lake Formation registered tables when the job role has full table access. This capability enables Data Manipulation Language (DML) operations including CREATE, ALTER, DELETE, UPDATE, and MERGE INTO statements on Apache Hive and Iceberg tables from within the […]
GCP – How Schroders built its multi-agent financial analysis research assistant
Financial analysts spend hours grappling with ever-increasing volumes of market and company data to extract key signals, combine diverse data sources, and produce company research. Schroders is a leading global active investment manager. Being an active manager means understanding investment opportunities — combining rigorous research, innovative thinking and deep market perspective — to help build […]
GCP – Audit smarter: Introducing Google Cloud’s Recommended AI Controls framework
As organizations build new generative AI applications and AI agents to automate business workflows, security and risk management management leaders face a new set of governance challenges. The complex, often opaque nature of AI models and agents, coupled with their reliance on vast datasets and potential for autonomous action, creates an urgent need to apply […]
GCP – Partner growth with Google Cloud: A strategy for maximized and sustained earnings
In today’s dynamic cloud market, true growth comes from strategic clarity. For Google Cloud partners, unlocking immense market potential and building a thriving services practice hinges on a definitive roadmap. That’s why we partnered with global technology analyst firm Canalys to independently study the Partner Ecosystem Multiplier (PEM) – a measure of the incremental revenue […]
GCP – Introducing BigQuery ObjectRef: Supercharge your multimodal data and AI processing
Traditional data warehouses simply can’t keep up with today’s analytics workloads. That’s because today, most data that’s generated is both unstructured and multimodal (documents, audio files, images, and videos). With the complexity of cleaning and transforming unstructured data, organizations have historically had to maintain siloed data pipelines for unstructured and structured data, and for analytics […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers now available in Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia)
Amazon GameLift Servers, a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling game servers for multiplayer games, is now available in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). With this launch, customers can now deploy GameLift fleets closer to players in Thailand and Malaysia, helping reduce latency and improve gameplay responsiveness. […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver endpoints now support DNS delegation for private hosted zones
Starting today, domain name system (DNS) delegation for private hosted zone subdomains can be used with Route 53 inbound and outbound Resolver endpoints. This allows you to delegate the authority for a subdomain from your on-premises infrastructure to the Route 53 Resolver cloud service and vice versa, enabling a simplified cloud experience across namespaces in […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS now supports Service Quotas
Today, Amazon EMR on EKS announces support for Service Quotas, improving visibility and control over EMR on EKS quotas. Previously, to request an increase for EMR on EKS quotas, such as maximum number of StartJobRun API calls per second, customers had to open a support ticket and wait for the support team to process the […]
AWS – Now in GA: Accelerate troubleshooting with Amazon CloudWatch investigations
Now generally available, Amazon CloudWatch helps you accelerate operational investigations across your AWS environment in just a fraction of the time. With a deep understanding of your AWS cloud environment and resources, CloudWatch investigations use an AI agent to look for anomalies in your environment, surface related signals, identify root-cause hypotheses, and suggest remediation steps, […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift Servers launches UDP ping beacons
We’re excited to announce the general availability of UDP ping beacons for Amazon GameLift Servers, a new feature that enables game developers to measure real-time network latency between game clients and game servers hosted on Amazon GameLift Servers. With UDP ping beacons, you can now accurately measure latency for UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packet payloads […]