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GCP – How to build comprehensive customer financial profiles with Elastic Cloud and Google Cloud
Financial institutions have vast amounts of data about their customers. However, many of them struggle to leverage data to their advantage. Data may be sitting in silos or trapped on costly mainframes. Customers may only have access to a limited quantity of data, or service providers may need to search through multiple systems of record […]

GCP – How StreamNative facilitates integrated use of Apache Pulsar through Google Cloud
StreamNative, a company founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, is partnering Google Cloud to build a streaming platform on open source technologies. We are dedicated to helping businesses generate maximum value from their enterprise data by offering effortless ways to realize real-time data streaming. Following the release of StreamNative Cloud […]

GCP – IT prediction: the vast majority of security operations workloads will be automated
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction #3: By 2025, 90% of security operations workflows will be automated and managed as code There is not enough funding, […]

GCP – Google Maps Platform Hackathon Winners Announced
In September, we launched the Google Maps Platform hackathon on Devpost. We were blown away by the creativity of the projects submitted. Over 2,600 participants spanning 100+ countries joined to build something they’re passionate about and created unique experiences using Google Maps Platform. Thanks to all the participants and judges that made this hackathon one […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Metric Math for Target Tracking Policies
EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math to customize the metrics they use with Target Tracking policy without actually having to publish and pay for customized metrics. Customers can use both arithmetic operators (such as +, -, /, and *) and mathematical functions (such as Sum and Average) to easily create […]

AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker launches asset synchronization with AWS IoT SiteWise
Starting today, AWS IoT TwinMaker will support asset synchronization with AWS IoT SiteWise, making it easier for AWS IoT SiteWise customers to bring their assets and asset models into AWS IoT TwinMaker. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon QuickSight supports billion-row dataset with SPICE
Amazon QuickSight now supports even larger SPICE datasets on the Enterprise Edition. Today, all new SPICE datasets can accommodate up to 1 billion rows (or 1TB) of data in the Enterprise Edition and 25 million rows (or 25GB) for Standard Edition. Before the launch, each SPICE dataset could hold up to 500 million rows and […]

AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection adds account name and other important details to its alert notifications
We are pleased to announce that as of today, customers will see additional details in AWS Cost Anomaly Detection’s console, alerting emails, and SNS topics posted to Slack and Chime. AWS Cost Anomaly Detection is a cost management service that leverages advanced machine learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, so customers can quickly […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now supports Amazon EMR Presto as a big data query engine
Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes in Amazon SageMaker Studio. With SageMaker Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and complete each step of the data preparation workflow, including data selection, cleansing, exploration, and […]
AWS – AWS Cost Management introduces 1-click experience to refresh Savings Plans Recommendations
AWS Cost Management now offers a 1-click experience to refresh Savings Plans Recommendations, so you can generate new Savings Plans Recommendations at any time to reduce costs and accelerate your cloud optimization journey. Savings Plans is a flexible pricing model offering lower prices compared to On-Demand pricing, in exchange for a specific usage commitment (measured in $/hour) […]