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GCP – Learn how to run Serverless Spark workloads without provisioning and managing clusters
Serverless Spark is a fully-managed and serverless product on Google Cloud that lets you run Apache Spark, PySpark, SparkR, and Spark SQL batch workloads without provisioning and managing your cluster. Serverless Spark enables you to run data processing jobs using Apache Spark, including PySpark, SparkR, and Spark SQL, on your data in BigQuery with the […]
GCP – Introducing Google Cloud Support on mobile: Manage support cases on-the-go
We’re excited to announce that Google Cloud Support is now available as Public Preview* in the Google Cloud mobile app. View and manage Google Cloud Support cases We understand how important it is to be able to access and collaborate on Cloud Support cases. As such, we’ve made it easy for you to manage your […]
GCP – IBL Education’s GenAI-based chat mentor with Google
With more than 6 years of experience in building open source and Generative AI in education at scale, ibleducation.com continues to evolve its approach and services. More recently, the company became an education-focused Vertex AI integrator. They provide enterprises and academic institutions with a platform to build, train and securely customize large language models (LLMs) […]
AWS – AWS AppConfig Agent simplifies feature flag and configuration use for Amazon EC2
AWS AppConfig, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces support for the AWS AppConfig Agent on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). AWS AppConfig allows customers to deploy faster and safer using feature flags and dynamic configuration, decoupling software releases from code deployments. The AWS AppConfig Agent is client-side software that manages configuration data on […]
AWS – AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Hudi Tables
AWS Glue Crawlers now supports Apache Hudi tables, allowing customers to query data in Apache Hudi tables directly from AWS analytics services like Amazon Athena. Apache Hudi is an open-source table format that brings database and data warehouse capabilities to the data lake. Apache Hudi helps data engineers manage continuously evolving data sets while maintaining query performance. […]
AWS – EMR on EKS now supports Apache Spark with Java 17
We are excited to announce support for Apache Spark with Java 17 in EMR on EKS. AWS customers can now leverage Java 17 as a supported Java runtime to run Spark workloads on Amazon EMR on EKS, and benefit from Java 17’s language enhancement and performance improvement. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big […]
AWS – AWS Config advanced queries support 65 new resource types
AWS Config supports 65 new resource types in advanced queries. The advanced queries feature provides a single query endpoint and a powerful query language to get current resource state metadata without performing service-specific describe API calls. You can use configuration aggregators to run the same queries from a central account across multiple accounts and AWS […]
AWS – AWS Lake Formation now supports delegation of LF-Tag management
AWS Lake Formation now supports the ability to delegate the creation, management and granting of permissions of Lake Formation Tags (LF-Tags) to non-Lake Formation administrators. With this launch, Lake Formation administrators can give permissions to data stewards and other users to manage LF-Tags. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS PrivateLink announces integration with Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights
You can now enable CloudWatch Contributor Insights on your AWS PrivateLink-powered VPC Endpoint Services in 6 new regions- Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne), Europe (Spain, Zurich) and Middle East (UAE). AWS PrivateLink is a fully-managed private connectivity service that enables customers to access AWS services, third-party services or internal enterprise services hosted on AWS in […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver now available on AWS Outposts rack
Starting today, you can enable Amazon Route 53 Resolver on AWS Outpost rack, allowing you to resolve Domain Name Server (DNS) queries locally and enhance the availability and performance of applications running on Outposts rack. Read More for the details.