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AWS – Amazon Timestream releases open-source ODBC driver
Amazon Timestream announces the availability of the Amazon Timestream ODBC driver, based on Microsoft’s Open Database Connectivity. This new driver allows applications such as Excel, PowerBI, JMP, and more to seamlessly integrate with Timestream’s powerful query engine, facilitating the analysis of billions of data points. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis adds support for online migration of clusters running in cluster mode
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports online migration from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache for Redis clusters running in cluster mode. Online migration simplifies moving data from self-managed Redis clusters to ElastiCache with minimal application disruption. During the migration, ElastiCache replicates cache data from each self-managed Redis source shard to the target ElastiCache cluster. Once […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator extends IPv6 support to EC2 endpoints
Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator offers dual-stack accelerators that enable you to route IPv6 traffic to EC2 endpoints, in addition to dual-stack Application Load Balancer (ALB) endpoints. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer in additional regions
AWS Glue now supports Amazon CodeWhisperer in additional regions. You can use Amazon CodeWhisperer with no additional charge to generate real-time code suggestions in AWS Glue Studio notebooks. CodeWhisperer can generate code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions in real time based on your prompts and existing code. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EFS is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) region
Customers can now create file systems using Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio adds support for AWS Lake Formation fine-grained access control
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in PySpark, Python, Scala, and R. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyterlab Notebooks and tools such as Spark UI and YARN Timeline Service to simplify […]
AWS – AWS Artifact launches email notifications
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is announcing the general availability of notifications on the AWS Artifact console. You can now subscribe to notifications and create configurations to get notified when a new report or agreement, or a new version of an existing report or agreement becomes available on AWS Artifact. While creating a configuration, you can […]
GCP – Ensuring fast, reliable deliveries for customers with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s note: Today’s article comes from Alex Papaspiridis, Head of Product and Agamemnon Papazoglou, Director of Strategy, Skroutz Last Mile. They share how Skroutz was able to automate its routing at scale and handle its deliveries in a more robust and agile manner, improving efficiencies and increasing delivery fulfillment rates with Google Maps Platform. Skroutz […]
GCP – Hear from One AI, a fast-growing seed-stage startup on what to consider when selecting a cloud provider
From the newsroom to the boardroom, everywhere we turn these days the topic of conversation is artificial intelligence (AI). From the smallest startups to the largest enterprises, every business is looking for ways to incorporate generative AI technology into their products or services. Generative AI is a new breed, able to not only discern patterns […]
GCP – Introducing new SQL functions to manipulate your JSON data in BigQuery
Enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate, spanning traditional structured transactional data, semi-structured like JSON and unstructured data like images and audio. Beyond the scale of the data, these divergent types present processing challenges for developers, at times requiring separate processing flows for each. With its initial release BigQuery’s support for semi-structured JSON eliminated […]