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GCP – Measuring climate and land changes with AI
Imagine what could be possible if we had a dataset that could automatically and in near real-time show you how the Earth has changed week over week, month over month, year over year. We would get a birds eye view of recent events like floods, fires, snowstorms from days ago and be able to identify […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports TDE enabled SQL Server Database Migration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports TDE enabled database migrations using Native Backup/Restore for Microsoft SQL Server. Previously, you would need to disable TDE on your on-premises TDE enabled SQL Server database in order to migrate to Amazon RDS. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces support for Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Catalog now supports Attributed Based Access Controls (ABAC), allowing customers the ability to use tags to easily manage access and permissions to AWS resources in Service Catalog. Now, Service Catalog administrators have the ability to define their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to grant access and specify finer-grained […]
GCP – Automate annotations for Vertex AI text datasets with Cloud Vision API and BigQuery
One of the main challenges machine learning practitioners face is the availability of annotated training datasets or a lack thereof. In many cases, practitioners may have access to existing datasets that have been manually extracted, which they can use to accelerate their model training. In this post, we demonstrate how Google Cloud AI/ML products can […]
GCP – Serverless MEAN Stack Applications with Cloud Run and MongoDB Atlas
Plea and the Pledge: Truly Serverless As modern application developers, we’re juggling many priorities: performance, flexibility, usability, security, reliability, and maintainability. On top of that, we’re handling dependencies, configuration, and deployment of multiple components in multiple environments and sometimes multiple repositories as well. And then we have to keep things secure and simple. Ah, the […]
Azure – Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Learn how private link support for Application Gateway drives more secured network access. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing general availability of reCAPTCHA Enterprise password leak detection
As long as passwords remain an incredibly common form of account authentication, password reuse attacks—which take advantage of people reusing the same password across multiple services—will be one of the most common ways for malicious hackers to hijack user accounts. Password reuse is such a serious problem that more than 52% of users admitted to […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21 versions, and updated extensions
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. Refer to the Aurora version policy to help you to decide how often to upgrade […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL supports LO module
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports the Large Objects (LO) module. The LO module provides support for managing Large Objects (also called LOs or BLOBs). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas accelerates onboarding with new interactive product tours and sample datasets
Amazon SageMaker Canvas accelerates onboarding with new interactive product tours and sample datasets for different use cases. Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate machine learning (ML) models for insights and predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a […]