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GCP – How HPC and generative AI will accelerate drug discovery and precision medicine
Two decades ago, humanity first sequenced its own genetic code, the start of an unprecedented look at the roles and interactions of amino acids, proteins, and other building blocks of life. From both a scientific and healthcare basis, we’ve arrived in a new world of knowledge and treatment, based on discerning the code of life. […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Common Sub-expression Elimination for SPICE performance optimization
Amazon QuickSight is excited to announce the launch of Common Sub-expression Elimination (CSE) – a performance optimization initiative for better query generation for SPICE datasets. The CSE improves QuickSight user experience through pushing down repeated use of complex expressions into intermediate tables hence simplify complex queries, such as for totals/subtotals, top bottom filter, conditional formatting, […]
Azure – Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025. Read More for the details.
Azure – Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026 Read More for the details.
AWS – Advanced sampling now available in AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the tail sampling processor and the group-by-trace processor in the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) collector. ADOT is a secure, production-ready, AWS supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this release, customers can use the ADOT collector for advanced distributed trace sampling use cases. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon Timestream now supports unloading data to Amazon S3
Amazon Timestream now enables you to export your query results to Amazon S3 in a cost-effective and secure manner using the new UNLOAD statement. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract updates its Queries feature within Analyze Document API
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to deliver better accuracy and latency. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Queries feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API. Read […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Container Storage
Azure Container Storage is a new Azure service built natively for containers that enables customers to create and manage volumes for running production scale stateful container applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces
Azure Payment HSM Service now supports two host IP network interfaces Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Config advanced queries support 62 new resource types
AWS Config supports 62 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 […]