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GCP – Google Cloud to join Catena-X and help build a sovereign data ecosystem in the automotive industry
The automotive industry has a long history of being at the forefront of automation and digitalization in many areas, be it digital design or digital shop floor. In parallel, carmakers have grown into broad partnerships within their ecosystem, with a special focus on their suppliers in the value chain. Digitizing and automating the way partners […]
GCP – Understanding Cloud SQL connectors
Connecting to a database can be one of the most challenging parts of setting up a new application. We know we aren’t the only developers who have lost full days to creating the right connection string followed by asking ourselves, “Should our database password be here in plain text?” (Hint: No) Cloud SQL, Google Cloud […]
Azure – Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2020-03-31)
Azure Digital Twins Preview Control-Plane API (2020-03-31-preview) will be retired on 05/02/2023 Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Digital Twins Control-Plane Preview API Retirement (2021-06-31)
Starting on May 02, 2023, Azure Digital Twins Preview Control-Plane API 2021-06-30-preview version will be retired. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now offers a Windows client library
The Amazon Chime SDK now provides a native client library for Windows applications to connect to WebRTC media sessions. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web, mobile applications, and now, Windows applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Mac instances now support replacing root volumes for quick instance restoration
Amazon EC2 now supports replacing the root volume on a running EC2 Mac instance, enabling you to restore the root volume of an EC2 Mac instance to its initial launch state or to a specific snapshot, without requiring you to stop or terminate the instance. You can now reset the EC2 Mac instance back to […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional cipher suites for OEM Agent and SSL option
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports additional cipher suites that can be used with the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Agent and Oracle Secure Socket Layer (SSL) options. Customers can make use of these new cipher suites, as they provide stronger security for the RDS for Oracle database instance(s) connections, thereby strengthening […]
AWS – AWS SAM CLI introduces ‘sam list’ command to inspect AWS SAM resources
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of sam list command, helping developers access information about deployed resources while they are testing their SAM applications. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Panorama simplifies ordering of Panorama Appliances
AWS Panorama customers are now able to get faster quotes and place orders for AWS Panorama Appliances directly in the AWS Panorama Console. With these new capabilities, customers can receive an automated quote from the AWS Panorama Console. This will reduce the time needed for customers to generate purchase orders and will expedite orders for […]
GCP – How to use advance feature engineering to preprocess data in BigQuery ML
Preprocessing and transforming raw data into features is a critical but time consuming step in the ML process. This is especially true when a data scientist or data engineer has to move data across different platforms to do MLOps. In this blogpost, we describe how we streamline this process by adding two feature engineering capabilities […]