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GCP – Navigating Google Cloud: a decision tree for data & analytics workloads
Google Cloud provides a wide range of services for running data and analytics workloads, which can mean sifting through a lot of information when choosing the right tools for your specific use cases. Each workload requires a unique set of services, from data ingestion and processing to storage, governance, and orchestration. To simplify the decision-making […]
GCP – Unlock insights faster from your MySQL data in BigQuery
Data practitioners know that relational databases are not designed for analytical queries. Data-driven organizations that connect their relational database infrastructure to their data warehouse get the best of both worlds: a production database unhassled by a barrage of analytical queries, and a data warehouse that is free to mine for insights without the fear of […]
Azure – Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-July 2023
Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in mid-July 2023 Read More for the details.
GCP – How ETH Library uses Apigee to make its open data holdings available to the public
Editor’s note: The ETH Library aims to advance knowledge, support research, and teaching and as a trustworthy institution to make the world of yesterday, today, and tomorrow more comprehensible to users. As the central university library of ETH Zurich, the ETH Library facilitates access of its data with information from other areas of society and knowledge. In […]
AWS – AWS Marketplace Vendor Insights now includes PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR certifications
AWS Marketplace sellers can now add additional certifications to their Vendor Insights security profiles, including PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance. These are in addition to already available certifications for FedRAMP, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type 2. AWS Marketplace Vendor […]
AWS – Amazon Omics now provides workflow run queuing
Amazon Omics has added run queuing to the Omics workflow. Amazon Omics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data. With workflow run queuing, you are now able to queue up to thousands of workflow runs, and the […]
AWS – Access resource and stack drift information directly in AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Today, AWS CloudFormation StackSets launches a new API ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts, and adds a new filter in ListStackInstances to improve visibility to resource and stack instance drift information. A resource or stack instance is considered drifted when it’s actual configuration differs from its expected configuration. You can now use ListStackInstanceResourceDrifts to list and filter resources in a […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower launches additional proactive controls
We are excited to announce the launch of 28 new proactive controls in AWS Control Tower. This launch enhances AWS Control Tower’s governance capabilities, allowing you to implement controls at scale across your multi-account AWS environments by blocking non-compliant resources before they are provisioned for services such as Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Neptune, Amazon ElastiCache, AWS […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports cross account sharing, discovery and access
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now makes it easier to share, discover and access feature groups across AWS accounts. This new capability promotes collaboration and minimizes duplicate work for teams involved in ML model and application development, particularly in enterprise environments with multiple accounts spanning different business units or functions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR launches new capabilities to enhance EMR on EC2 cluster scaling experience
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR has launched two new capabilities that enhances the scaling experience for Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters: a new retry mechanism for faster scaling of your Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters running Presto or Trino; and faster scale-down of Amazon EMR on EC2 clusters by enforcing the data redundancy […]