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AWS – RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now provides improved developer productivity
RStudio on Amazon SageMaker now comes with the new RStudio Workbench version 2023.03 with enhanced developer productivity capabilities. The new capabilities include improvements to auto-completion and accessibility and support for R-4.3.0. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch now supports dashboard variables
We are excited to announce Amazon CloudWatch dashboard variables, a new experience that makes it easier for you to quickly navigate between different operational views by using variables as navigation to view different data sets for the same resource. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports time to live (TTL) in online store
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports the ability to set a time to live (TTL) for records in the online store. The online store contains the most recent features and is used for low latency model serving. With this launch, you can now set a TTL duration after which a record will be hard deleted, […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for Apache Parquet file format
Amazon SageMaker Canvas now supports the Apache Parquet file format, enabling additional file formats for tabular, time-series forecast, and NLP datasets. SageMaker Canvas is a visual interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. […]
AWS – Amazon GameLift adds support for Amazon Linux 2023
Amazon GameLift now supports Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a new Linux-based operating system for AWS that is designed to provide a secure, stable, high-performance environment to develop and run your cloud applications. Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service that allows you to manage and scale dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. With this release, […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Late June 2023
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2023. In my previous newsletter, I discussed the growing, important role that accurate threat intelligence can play in helping keep organizations secure, and how we centered that at our Security Summit. Today’s cybersecurity threats can pose dangerous risks to organizations, and have a material impact on […]
GCP – Querying flexibly in Firestore with OR operator
You can now query Firestore using the OR operator. Your application may often need to compare one or more fields with two or more values and select the documents that match at least one of the values. This is an extension to the IN operator which could be used to compare multiple values with the […]
GCP – Introducing the Hive-BigQuery open-source Connector
In our work on the Big Data solutions architecture, BigQuery, and Dataproc teams, we talk to a lot of customers who are interested in migrating all or part of their data warehouse from Apache Hive to BigQuery, but who have hit some speed bumps along the way. To help, we are proud to announce the […]
GCP – Making insights actionable with new Looker Studio scheduling capabilities
Scheduling reports in Looker Studio helps teams predictably and reliably distribute insights to business users in the flow of work and workflows where they spend their time. This helps to foster a data culture, making information more actionable and contextual, and enabling cross-team collaboration. Today, we are introducing two new capabilities in Looker Studio scheduling: […]
AWS – AWS Global Accelerator adds new edge location
AWS Global Accelerator now supports traffic through a new edge location in Osaka (Japan). With the addition of this edge location, Global Accelerator is now available through 107 Points of Presence globally and supports application endpoints in 24 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.