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Azure – General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights Read More for the details.
AWS – Administer AWS Single Sign-On from a delegated member account in your organization
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) now supports centralized administration and API access from an AWS Organizations delegated administrator account for all member accounts in your organization. This means you can designate an account in your organization that can be used to centrally administer all member accounts. With delegated administration, you can adhere to best practices […]
GCP – Building connection in the era of hybrid work
In response to the pandemic, an overwhelming 92% of the U.S. workforce is now interested in working in a hybrid or fully remote capacity1. All employers, including government leaders, are now critically focused on finding the right tools and techniques to foster engagement, improve productivity, and strengthen relationships – in-person and virtually – or risk […]
GCP – Previewing the power of BigQuery Remote Functions for drive time optimization
BigQuery’s Remote Functions (in preview) make it possible to apply custom cloud functions to your warehouse without moving data or managing compute. This flexibility unlocks many use cases including data enrichment. In this post we demonstrate a pattern for combining BigQuery with the Google Maps API to add drive times to datasets containing origin and […]
GCP – Our I/O 2022 announcements: In demo form
In the Cloud PA Keynote at I/O Aparna Sinha walked through the backend for an application that connects volunteers with volunteer opportunities in their area. In this blog post we’ll walk through each component of that application in a bit more detail, explaining the new products that Google Cloud has released, the pros and cons […]
Azure – Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) announced the general availability of the new model with support for 164 languages. It’s also available as a Docker container. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup Audit Manager adds compliance management for data protection of hybrid VMware workloads
AWS Backup Audit Manager now allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies for hybrid VMware workloads. With this launch, you can include the VMware Virtual Machines in AWS Backup Audit Manager’s controls to maintain the compliance status of your organizational data protection policies and to generate unified auditor-ready reports […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in AWS South America (Sao Paulo), Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and offer up to 60 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 260,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS. […]
AWS – AWS PrivateLink announces support for IPv6
You can now connect over IPv6 to your services hosted in AWS using AWS PrivateLink. AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that enables you to privately connect your VPC to supported AWS services, services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC Endpoint Services), third-party SaaS services and supported AWS Marketplace partner services. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now certified for SAP HANA workloads
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now SAP-certified for workloads including S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA, BW/4HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, and Data Mart Solutions on HANA. Read More for the details.