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GCP – Cloud Deploy gets deploy parameters, new console creation flows, and reduced pricing
When it comes to software delivery and deployments, details matter. Earlier this year, we added parallel deployments to Cloud Deploy. Since launching that feature, we’ve received feedback to support differentiated release deployments across individual child targets. To enable this, we are pleased to introduce deploy parameters to Cloud Deploy in Preview, allowing you to configure […]

GCP – Streamlining ML development with Feast
This post is the first in a short series of blog posts about Feast on Google Cloud. In this first blog post, we describe the benefits of using Feast, a popular open source ML feature store, on Google Cloud. In our second blog post, we’ll provide a simple, introductory tutorial for building a product recommendation […]

GCP – Announcing Tecton on Google Cloud: Accelerate the development of ML-powered applications
Data is the lifeblood of any machine learning application. To make more accurate predictions, ML models need access to high-quality data signals, commonly referred to as ML features. These ML features are usually characterized by refined data with high signal value that incorporate all the latest information available to an organization. Tecton on Google Cloud […]

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 […]