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AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in Amazon Web Services China Regions
Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports object versioning
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports versioning, helping you to locally preserve, retrieve, and restore each version of every object stored in your buckets. Versioning objects makes it easier to recover from both unintended user actions and application failures. After you enable versioning for your S3 on Outposts bucket, all variants of an object are stored […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot experiments are now up to 8X faster with new ‘Ensemble’ training mode powered by AutoGluon
Today, we’re pleased to announce that Amazon SageMaker Autopilot has added a new training mode that supports model ensembling powered by AutoGluon. For moderately large datasets (< 100MB), ensemble training mode builds machine learning (ML) models with high accuracy quickly – up to 8x faster than the current hyper parameter optimization (HPO) training mode with 250 […]

AWS – AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Encryption scopes on hierarchical namespace enabled storage accounts
You can now use separate encryption keys for each customer in a single hierarchical namespace enabled storage account. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google launches dedicated cloud training program for Ukrainians
Editor’s note: This blog was originally published in Ukrainian on September 14. 2022. Google launches cloud technology training program to support Ukrainian businesses and IT professionals Around the world, organizations across multiple industries are in the midst of digitally transforming their businesses. And Ukrainian businesses are no different – they are looking for new ways to survive, grow […]

GCP – Building trust in the data with Dataplex
Analytics data is growing exponentially and so is the dependence on the data in making critical business and product decisions. In fact, the best decisions are said to be the ones which are backed by data. In data, we trust! But do we trust the data ? As the data volumes have grown – one […]

GCP – Introducing Custom Organization Policy for GKE to harden security
Compliance officers and platform engineering teams often find it challenging to ensure security, manage consistency, and oversee governance across multiple products, environments, and teams. Google Cloud’s Organization Policy Service can help tackle this challenge with a policy-based approach that simplifies policy administration across Google Cloud resources and projects. We’re excited to announce the Preview release […]

GCP – Join Google Workspace at Cloud Next ’22
Join us online or in-person at Google Cloud Next ’22, our flagship event where over 1 million people across the globe come together to learn and grow. Don’t miss out on meeting other IT and security professionals, developers, and business leaders. Learn about the latest product announcements and hear valuable insights from Google executives, including […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling now supports simultaneous TCP connections
AWS IoT Device Management Secure Tunneling now provides support for multiple simultaneous TCP connections, unlocking new use cases for advanced troubleshooting on remote devices. Secure Tunneling allows customers to establish bidirectional communication to remote devices using SSH, VNC or RDP. Now with multiple simultaneous TCP connections, customers can establish tunnels to access HTTP-based applications that […]