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AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches a new user interface for dataset management
Amazon QuickSight launches a new user interface for dataset management. Previously, the dataset management experience was a popup dialog modal with limited space and all functionality shown up in one small modal. The new dataset management user interface replaces the existing popup dialog modal with a full-page experience, providing a clearer breakdown of dataset management […]
Azure – Generally available: IoT Edge 1.4
The Azure IoT Edge release 1.4 is the long term servicing (LTS) release of IoT Edge. The companion release of Azure IoT Edge for Linux on Windows (EFLOW) 1.4 long term servicing will be coming later this fall. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP
AWS and VMware now offer a supplemental, jointly-engineered network file system (NFS) datastore option for VMware Cloud on AWS so you can reduce costs and accelerate your migration to the cloud. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a fully managed service that allows you to run NetApp ONTAP filesystems on AWS. With this integration, you […]
GCP – Introducing Pay-as-you-go pricing for Apigee API Management
Apigee is Google Cloud’s API management platform that enables organizations to build, operate, manage and monetize their APIs. Customers from industries around the world trust Apigee to build and scale their API programs. While some organizations operate with mature API-first strategies, others might still be working on a modernization strategy. Even within an organization, different […]
GCP – Building a Fleet of GKE clusters with ArgoCD
Organizations on a journey to containerize applications and run them on Kubernetes often reach a point where running a single cluster doesn’t meet their needs. One example, you want to bring your app closer to the users in a new regional market. Add a cluster to the new region and get the added benefit of […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: August 2022
Welcome to this month’s Cloud CISO Perspectives. This month, we’re focusing on the importance of vulnerability reward programs, also known as bug bounties. These programs for rewarding independent security researchers for reporting zero-day vulnerabilities to the software vendor first started appearing around 1995, and have since evolved into an integral part of the security landscape. […]
AWS – A new sign-in experience is now generally available for Amazon QuickSight
Amazon QuickSight is changing the way users sign in to the service with a new look and feel that aligns the sign-in experience with existing AWS application sign-in patterns. The QuickSight sign-in process is now a three-step experience: 1) the first page requires your QuickSight account name, 2) the second page asks for your user […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize expands the number of events considered by filters to make recommendations even more relevant
Amazon Personalize has extended the capabilities of its filters, increasing limits and providing control over the number of interactions considered by each filter. Amazon Personalize filters improve the relevance of recommendations by removing products that users have already purchased, videos they have already watched, or other digital content they have already consumed in their recent […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints announces 99.99% Service Level Agreement and updates its Service Level Agreement for Route 53 hosted zones
AWS has published a service level agreement (SLA) for Amazon Route 53 Resolver Endpoints, which provides availability guarantees for this service. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon Route 53 Multi-AZ Resolver Endpoints available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.99% (the “Service Commitment”). In the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler accelerates onboarding with sample dataset and guided feature discovery
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio, the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of […]