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GCP – How to simplify unstructured data analytics using BigQuery ML and Vertex AI
Unstructured data such as images, speech and textual data can be notoriously difficult to manage, and even harder to analyze. The analysis of unstructured data includes use cases such as extracting text from images using OCR, sentiment analysis on customer reviews and simplifying translation for analytics. All of this data needs to be stored, managed […]
AWS – AWS Application Migration Service available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use Application Migration Service to migrate and modernize your applications in these AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now offers visibility of point in time cost estimations
Starting today, AWS Pricing Calculator will enable you to re-access your previously saved estimate with pricing as on the date you created the estimate, while giving you the option to update the estimate to reflect latest pricing. The new experience will now make it possible for you to track changes to your cost estimates over […]
AWS – AWS Service Catalog now supports wildcards in IAM principal name associations
AWS Service Catalog now supports granting portfolio access to IAM principal (user, group or role) names with wildcards, such as ‘*’ or ‘?’. This enables flexible and efficient sharing of infrastructure-as-code templates for customers using wildcard patterns to cover multiple IAM principal names at a time. Previously, customers had to use the exact IAM principal […]
AWS – Amazon VPC IP Address Manager introduces a customizable dashboard with new insights
Today, AWS announced the launch of a new customization feature for the Amazon VPC IP Address Manager (VPC IPAM) dashboard, that allows you to adapt the VPC IPAM dashboard to your specific needs. With this new feature, you can rearrange and resize widgets to your preferences. For example, if you want to see the overlapping […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 now integrates with Amazon GuardDuty threat intelligence
Starting today, you can enable a new Managed Domain List on Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall, to block domains identified as low-reputation or that are known or suspected to be malicious by Amazon GuardDuty’s threat intelligence. This means that customers using GuardDuty can now block domains using the same GuardDuty threat intelligence used to […]
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports delivery of client-side overlay ads
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now recognizes overlay ad-break signals as valid ad break types in over the top (OTT) streams. Non-linear overlay ads can be rendered in-line with the program content on to the client device using metadata returned by MediaTailor’s existing interface to an ad decision server (ADS) and the VAST standard. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Snow Family quickens multi-PB data migration with new 210TB device
AWS announces the general availability of a new AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device with higher storage capacity. The new Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device increases storage capacity on Snow devices from 80TB to 210TB with high performance NVMe storage, enabling customers to simplify multi-petabyte data migrations from on-premises locations to AWS. Read More for […]
Azure – Generally available: Azure Files scalability improvement for Azure Virtual Desktop and other workloads that open root directory handles
Azure Files has increased the root directory handle limit per share from 2,000 to 10,000 for standard and premium file shares. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Zone Redundant Storage for Azure Disks is now available in more regions.
Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) for Azure Disks is now available on Azure Premium SSD and Standard SSD in Brazil South, UK South, East US, East US 2, and South-Central US. Read More for the details.