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AWS – AWS Lake Formation now available in AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Lake Formation is a service that allows you to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secured repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches expanded JSON attribute support in flows
Amazon Connect now supports the use of JSON structures such as nested arrays as attributes in flows, enabling you to build more personalized and automated customer experiences. For example, you can now build self-service experiences to help customers track their order status based on multiple purchases in the last month rather than the single most […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom now supports new General Purpose gp3 storage volumes
Today, AWS announced the availability of next-generation General Purpose gp3 storage volumes for Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle and Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server. Amazon RDS gp3 volumes give you the flexibility to provision storage performance independently of storage capacity, paying only for the resources you need. You can choose gp3 […]
AWS – Amazon Omics now enables batch variant store imports
Amazon Omics now supports batch import of variant data into Omics variant stores. You can now import up to 1,000 variant call format (VCF) and genome VCF (gVCF) files in a single variant import job. This simplifies how you bring population scale variant data into Omics and make it available for analysis. Read More for the […]
Azure – Azure Service Fabric 9.1 Second Refresh Release
This release includes quality improvements. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Image Builder Portal Functionality now available
Using Azure Image Builder’s new portal functionality, you can now build and validate custom images inside the portal. Now available! Read More for the details.
GCP – Confidential Space: The future of privacy-preserving collaboration
Today, we are happy to announce that Confidential Space is Generally Available. Confidential Space builds on our Confidential Computing portfolio. It provides a secure enclave, also known as a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), that our Google Cloud customers can leverage for privacy-focused use cases such as joint data analysis and machine learning (ML) model training. […]
GCP – How BCW is using decentralized technology on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s blog discusses efforts by Arkhia, the organization developed by BCW Group, to provide Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Web3 backend solutions for blockchain & DLT developers. It is the first of three posts. BCW is a Web3 venture studio and enterprise consulting firm serving enterprise clients who want to integrate existing products or otherwise […]
GCP – IBM Spectrum Scale is now available in Google Cloud
Google Cloud and Sycomp are introducing Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale. This launch is highly useful for customers looking to run HPC, AI/ML, and big data workloads on a proven file system, in a fully-persistent deployment, and with Google’s Cloud Storage integration for cost optimization. Sycomp Storage Fueled by IBM Spectrum Scale optimizes […]
GCP – Accelerate database modernization with Google Cloud Ready – AlloyDB validated partners
AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is a fully-managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise database workloads. With AlloyDB, you can free yourself from expensive, legacy databases with restrictive licensing. For extended capabilities such as migration tooling, analytics or database observability, at the Google Data Cloud & AI Summit, we launched Google Cloud Ready – […]