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AWS – Amazon Redshift launches Concurrency Scaling in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions
Amazon Redshift Concurrency Scaling is now available in the China (Beijing, operated by Sinnet), and China (Ningxia, operated by NWCD) Regions. Read More for the details.

GCP – BigQuery authorized views permissions via Terraform, avoiding the chicken & egg problem
Enterprises that use Terraform for spinning up their Infrastructure, including the instantiation of Google BigQuery, can run into a chicken & egg problem if using the IAM access permissions resource blocks for both their Datasets and Authorized Views. This problem can cause BigQuery operational issues across an organization, creating an unpleasant experience for the end-user […]

GCP – You get what you pay for: Principles for designing a chargeback process
Principles for designing a chargeback process As large organizations increase their cloud footprint, it becomes critical to ensure costs are being managed effectively. A good understanding of the cost of running each workload, and the value that workload brings to your business, allows organizations to have confidence in the efficiency of their cloud consumption — […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: Lytics launches secure data sharing and enrichment solution on Google Cloud
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Background and Context A Customer Data Platform (CDP) provides a monolithic view of the customer by collecting data from various sources to provide accessibility across different systems. CDPs are becoming increasingly vital as companies look […]

GCP – Establish consistent business language and improve trust in your data
Today we announce the Dataplex business glossary, now available in public preview. Dataplex is an intelligent data fabric that provides a way to manage, monitor, and govern your distributed data at scale. Dataplex business glossary offers users a cloud-native way to maintain and manage their business terms and definitions, establishing consistent business language, improving trust […]

GCP – Scalability testing on Google Kubernetes Engine: Know before you go
Building large-scale systems can be challenging. Systems that are predictable and reliable on a smaller scale can become chaotic and uncontrollable when scaled up, revealing the limits of your design, exhibiting suboptimal performance, or even not working. To mitigate these effects, it’s important to test large-scale systems before deploying them in production. But predicting system […]

GCP – Transforming Japan’s food delivery industry with Google Maps Platform
Editor’s Note: Today’s blog features Yuichi Sato, Takayuki Niwa, and Tatsuo Mitani of menu corporation, a group company of Reazon Holdings. They explore how menu has used Google Maps Platform capabilities and integrated Mobility services into their food delivery applications, opening up a new frontier for the takeout and food delivery industry in Japan. “At […]

AWS – AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 for Amazon EC2 instances on Snow
AWS Snow Family now supports Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) for Amazon EC2 instances on AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge devices. You can use AWS Snow Family devices to run storage, compute, and data-processing operations in locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited connectivity. IMDSv2 is an enhancement to instance metadata access that […]

AWS – AWS Glue is now available in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region
Today, we are launching AWS Glue in the AWS Middle East (UAE) Region, enabling customer to discover, prepare, and integrate their data at any scale. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Radar chart
Amazon QuickSight now includes Radar chart as a new chart type. Radar charts (also known as spider charts, polar charts, or web charts) are a way to visualize multivariate data. They are used to plot one or more groups of values over multiple common variables. They do this by providing an axis for each variable, […]