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GCP – Data governance building blocks on Google Cloud for financial services
Data governance includes people, processes, and technology. Together, these principles enable organizations to validate and manage across dimensions such as: Data management, including data and pipelines lifecycle management and master data management. Data protection, spanning data access management, data masking and encryption, along with audit and compliance. Data discoverability, including data cataloging, data quality assurance, […]
GCP – Develop for Compute Engine in your IDE with Cloud Code
When developing services with Compute Engine, our customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure, you’ll likely find yourself frequently switching between your code editor, terminal, and the Google Cloud Console. Cloud Code is a set of IDE plugins for popular IDEs like VS Code and IntelliJ that make […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for instance creation
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation for instance creation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy Amazon Connect instances—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use AWS CloudFormation to deploy Amazon Connect instances along with other resources within the instance, including users, quick connects, […]
AWS – Automate AWS Control Tower guardrail management through APIs
AWS Control Tower customers can now programmatically manage controls, also known as guardrails, across their organization at scale. Customers can programmatically enable, disable, and view application status of controls available in the AWS Control Tower library. Control APIs include AWS CloudFormation support, allowing customers to manage AWS resources as infrastructure as code (IaC). AWS Control Tower […]
AWS – Custom forecast frequencies now supported in Amazon Forecast
Today, Amazon Forecast is excited to announce the ability to customize the forecast frequency, enabling you to more closely align forecast intervals with your demand cycles. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides custom data split options along with an improved experience for creating an AutoML experiment
SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, when creating Autopilot experiment to train a machine learning model, you can customize the splits of data used for training and validation of models. By default Autopilot splits […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight Q Authors can now identify questions that Q did not answer or required user disambiguation to generate an answer
QuickSight Authors can now better analyze user activity; new enhancements to user activity in Topics make it easy for authors to – a. Identify questions that required user disambiguation to generate an answer, b. Filter questions based on whether they were answered or required user disambiguation and c. Filter questions based on the User who […]
AWS – AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in AWS Systems Manager
AWS Config conformance pack templates can now be stored in and deployed from AWS Systems Manager documents (SSM documents). Conformance packs are collections of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a Region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. Conformance packs are […]
AWS – AWS SAM CLI esbuild support is now generally available
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces general availability of esbuild support in SAM CLI. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Esbuild, “an extremely fast JavaScript bundler”, links JavaScript ( js , jsx , ts , and tsx […]
AWS – Amazon EBS adds the ability to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance
In May 2019, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) launched the ability for customers to take crash-consistent snapshots of all Amazon EBS volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance with a single API call. Now you can choose to take crash-consistent snapshots of a subset of Amazon EBS data volumes attached to an Amazon EC2 instance. […]