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AWS – Amazon EventBridge Pipes is now generally available
EventBridge Pipes provides a simpler, consistent, and cost-effective way to create point-to-point integrations between event producers and consumers, expanding the EventBridge offering beyond event buses and scheduling. EventBridge Pipes makes it easy to connect your applications with data from sources including Amazon SQS, Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Managed Streaming Kafka, self-managed Kafka, and Amazon […]

GCP – Bridging The Gap: Melina López on Expanding Access to Technology in Latin America
Editor’s note: Melina López describes her job as “training the workforce of the future” across much of Latin America. She is a native of Argentina, and now works in Brazil seeking ways to empower underrepresented groups through podcasts, training sessions, skills-building websites, and more. Her quest for greater social justice began years ago, and has […]

GCP – Cloud SQL and Powershell working together on linux
PowerShell is a powerful scripting tool often used by database administrators for managing Microsoft SQL Server. This blog will focus on the aspects of using PowerShell for common database tasks and management on a Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. We will also look at dbatools.io and how this can be used on instances with […]

GCP – Deploy a Google Cloud Marketplace VM with Terraform
Google Cloud Marketplace helps scale and simplify procurement for your organization with online discovery, flexible purchasing, and easy fulfillment of top cloud solutions. Today we are proud to announce an additional Marketplace deployment option for select VM products: Terraform. Now with just a few clicks, you can auto-generate a configuration file to use with Terraform, […]

GCP – Break down data silos with the new cross-cloud transfer feature of BigQuery Omni
To help customers break down data silos, we launched BigQuery Omni in 2021. Organizations globally are using BigQuery Omni to analyze data across cloud environments. Now, we are excited to launch the next big evolution for multi cloud analytics: cross-cloud analytics. Cross-cloud analytics tools help analysts and data scientists easily, securely, and cost effectively distribute […]

GCP – Built with BigQuery: How Datalaksa provides a unified marketing and customer data warehouse for brands in South East Asia
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Datalaksa is a unified marketing and customer data warehouse created by Persuasion Technologies, a Big Data Analytics & Digital Marketing consultancy serving clients throughout South East Asia. It enables marketing teams to optimize campaigns by […]

GCP – Cloud Pub/Sub announces General Availability of exactly-once delivery
Today the Google Cloud Pub/Sub team is excited to announce the GA launch of exactly-once delivery feature. With this availability, Pub/Sub customers can receive exactly-once delivery within a cloud region and the feature provides following guarantees: No redelivery occurs once the messages has been successfully acknowledged No redelivery occurs while a message is outstanding. A […]

AWS – Introducing AWS Graviton Delivery Partners
We are thrilled to announce the new AWS Graviton Delivery specialization for AWS partners that excel in enabling the best price performance for workloads in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This specialization validates AWS Partners that help customers accelerate and scale their adoption of AWS Graviton to achieve better workload performance and cost savings. […]

AWS – Introducing AWS Glue Delivery
We are excited to announce the new AWS Glue Delivery specialization, which validates AWS Partners with deep expertise and proven success delivering AWS Glue for data integration, data pipeline, and data catalogue use cases. AWS Glue is a scalable, serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) Delivery Partners
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is incredibly excited to announce the new Amazon MSK Service Delivery specialization for AWS partners that help customers migrate and build real-time streaming analytics solutions with fully managed Apache Kafka. Amazon MSK provisions your servers, configures your Apache Kafka clusters, replaces servers when they fail, orchestrates server patches and upgrades, architects […]