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AWS – AWS announces Amazon EC2 Inf2 instances (Preview)
Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances, which are designed to deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for the most demanding deep learning (DL) inference applications. Inf2 instances are powered by up to 12 AWS Inferentia2, the third AWS-designed DL accelerator. Inf2 instances offer 3x […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Security Lake (Preview)
Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a purpose-built data lake stored in your account. Security Lake makes it easier to analyze security data so that you can get a more complete understanding of your security across the entire organization. You can also improve the protection of your […]
GCP – Seer Interactive gets the best marketing results for their clients using Looker
Marketing strategies based on complex and dynamic data get results. However, it’s no small task to extract easy-to-act-on insights from increasing volumes and ever-evolving sources of data including search engines, social media platforms, third-party services, and internal systems. That’s why organizations turn to us at Seer Interactive. We provide every client with differentiating analysis and […]
AWS – New question types for Amazon QuickSight Q
Today, Amazon QuickSight announces support for two new question types that simplify and scale complex analytical tasks using natural language. Business users type “forecast” to see future trajectories for up to 3 measures simultaneously. “Why” performs contribution analysis to automatically identify key drivers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS announces Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark
Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark helps developers seamlessly build and run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Redshift data. If you are using AWS analytics and machine learning (ML) services—such as Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon SageMaker—you can now build Apache Spark applications that read from and write to your Amazon Redshift data warehouse […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark with Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR announces Amazon Redshift integration with Apache Spark. This integration helps data engineers build and run Spark applications that can consume and write data from an Amazon Redshift cluster. Starting with Amazon EMR 6.9, this integration is available across all three deployment models for EMR – EC2, EKS, and Serverless. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon Aurora zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift
Amazon Aurora now supports zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift, to enable near real-time analytics and machine learning (ML) using Amazon Redshift on petabytes of transactional data from Aurora. Within seconds of transactional data being written into Aurora, the data is available in Amazon Redshift, so you don’t have to build and maintain complex data pipelines […]
GCP – SIGOPS Hall of Fame goes to Spanner paper — here’s why that matters
Earlier this month, SIGOPS announced that it had selected the paper, “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database” for the 2022 SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award, an honor bestowed on the most influential Operating Systems papers published by the organization. In giving this award, the award committee stated: “Spanner showed how to balance the requirements of consistency, availability, […]
GCP – BigQuery’s performance powers AutoTrader UK’s real-time analytics
Editor’s note: We’re hearing today from Auto Trader UK, the UK and Ireland’s largest online automotive marketplace, about how BigQuery’s robust performance has become the data engine powering real-time inventory and pricing information across the entire organization. Auto Trader UK has spent nearly 40 years perfecting our craft of connecting buyers and sellers of new […]
GCP – How InstaDeep used Cloud TPU v4 to help sustainable agriculture
You are what you eat. We’ve all been told this, but the truth is what we eat is often more complex than we are – genetically at least. Take a grain of rice. The plant that produces rice has 40,000 to 50,000 genes, double that of humans, yet we know far more about the composition […]