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Azure – Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature – Dataset with GeoJSON
Azure Maps Creator enables you to create Indoor Maps with GeoJSON. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract announces updates to the forms and text extraction features
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our text and forms extraction feature available via the AnalyzeDocument […]
AWS – Amazon S3 on Outposts further optimizes storage management with new Lifecycle actions and filters
Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports additional S3 Lifecycle rules to optimize capacity management. You can now optimize your storage capacity by expiring objects as they age or are replaced with newer versions. You can use S3 Lifecycle configurations for a whole bucket on your Outpost, or for a subset of the objects in the […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides feature selection and the ability to change data types while creating an AutoML experiment
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot now provides the ability to perform feature selection and change auto inferred data types while creating an AutoML experiment, enabling you with the flexibility to choose which features to include while training your machine learning (ML) models. SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, […]
AWS – AWS WAF Now Supports Granular Geographic Match
Starting today, the AWS WAF geographic match statement adds labels to each request, to indicate ISO 3166 country and region codes. Customers have asked for more control of geographic regions within a country, such as a specific state in the United States. With the updated geographic match rule statements, customers can control access at the […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: How True Fit’s data journey unlocks partner growth
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our awesome partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. “True Fit is in a unique position where we help shoppers find the right sizes of apparel and footwear through near real time, adaptable ML models thereby rendering a great shopping experience while also […]
GCP – Building advanced Beam pipelines in Scala with SCIO
Apache Beam is an open source, unified programming model with a set of language-specific SDKs for defining and executing data processing workflows. Scio, pronounced shee-o, is Scala API for Beam developed by Spotify to build both Batch and Streaming pipelines. In this blog we will uncover the need for SCIO and a few reference patterns. Why […]
GCP – Flare Network gives blockchain a boost with groundbreaking protocol running on Google Cloud
Flare started as a research organization looking into the future of blockchain technology. This resulted in the development of our own platform and the launch of Flare Network, a blockchain which presents developers with a simple and coherent stack for decentralized interoperability. Decentralized applications on Flare can safely access information from outside the Flare network […]
GCP – A deep dive into Spanner’s query optimizer
Spanner is a fully managed, distributed relational database that provides unlimited scale, global consistency, and up to five 9s availability. It was originally built to address Google’s needs to scale out Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads without losing the benefits of strong consistency and familiar SQL that developers rely on. Today, Cloud Spanner is used […]
Azure – Generally available: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant. Read More for the details.