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AWS – Announcing support for Crawler history in AWS Glue
AWS Glue Crawlers now provide properties and metrics associated with past crawler executions to simplify monitoring and auditing. This crawler history feature builds on AWS Glue Crawlers; customers use Crawlers to discover datasets, extract schema information, and populate the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Firewall Manager adds support for AWS Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall
AWS Firewall Manager now allows you to centrally configure AWS Managed Rules for AWS Network Firewall policies, enabling you to stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own firewall rules. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Regions
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning is now available in the Europe (Milan), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Osaka), and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports email subscription for SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). There is no additional cost to use the email subscription feature on your Amazon RDS for SQL Server DB instance. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces new edge locations in Vietnam
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces expansion in Vietnam by launching new edge locations in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. End users served by these new edge locations will see improvements in application availability, security, and performance. The new locations offer edge networking services including Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator that are integrated with security service […]

AWS – Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Today, we are announcing the availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.

GCP – Observing Women’s Equality Day 2022 with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day celebrated in the United States to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. In 1920, one hundred and two years […]

GCP – Google Kubernetes Engine: 7 years and 7 amazing benefits
Today, as we celebrate seven years of general availability of the most automated and scalable managed Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), we present seven of the common ways that GKE helps customers do amazing things. Accelerates productivity of developers Developer time is at a premium. GKE provides a rich set of integrated tools to help […]

GCP – Spatial Clustering on BigQuery – Best Practices
Most data analysts are familiar with the concept of organizing data into clusters so that it can be queried faster and at a lower cost. The user behavior dictates how the dataset should be clustered: for example, when a user seeks to analyze or visualize geospatial data (a.k.a location data), it is most efficient to […]
GCP – Dassana secures businesses with Google Workspace, Google Cloud
When Dassana co-founders Gaurav Kumar and Parth Shah, formerly founder and founding engineer at RedLock (now Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks), set out on a new startup journey in 2020, they knew exactly where to start: sign up for Google Workspace. “Every startup I’ve been at, we used Google Workspace,” said Kumar. “We’ve been […]