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AWS – Amazon Keyspaces is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra), a scalable, highly available, and fully managed Cassandra-compatible database service, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Data Exchange increases the asset size limit to 100GB
Third-party data providers on AWS Data Exchange can now import Amazon S3 assets up to 100GB in size, an increase from the former limit of 10GB. The increased asset size unlocks new use cases in Healthcare and Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Retail among other industries, because providers can now license genomics data, high volume […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches API-based domain allow listing for developers to scale embedded analytics across different applications
Amazon QuickSight now supports API-based allow listing of domains where QuickSight data visualizations can be embedded. With this new capability, developers can scale their embedded analytics offerings including visuals, dashboards, QuickSight Q (natural language querying), and authoring experience across different applications for their different customers quickly. All of this is done without any infrastructure setup […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g, M6g, R6g instances in the Europe (Paris, Milan) regions and R6gd instances in the Europe (Paris) region
Amazon ElastiCache now supports AWS Graviton2-based T4g, M6g and R6g node types in the Europe (Paris) and Europe (Milan) regions. Customers choose Amazon ElastiCache for workloads that require blazing-fast performance with sub-millisecond latency and high throughput. Now, with Graviton2 T4g, M6g and R6g instances, customers can enjoy up to a 45% price/performance improvement over previous […]

AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL supports new minor versions 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL minor versions 14.3, 13.7, 12.11, 11.16, and 10.21. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. […]

GCP – Founders and tech leaders share their experiences in “Startup Stories” podcast
From some angles, a lot of startup founders consider broadly similar questions, such as “should I use serverless?”, “how do I manage my data?”, or “do I have a use case for Web3?” But the deeper you probe, the more every startup’s rise becomes unique, from the early moments among founders, to the of hiring […]

GCP – How Wayfair is reaching MLOps excellence with Vertex AI
Editor’s note: In part one of this blog, Wayfair shared how it supports each of its 30 million active customers using machine learning (ML). Wayfair’s Vinay Narayana, Head of ML Engineering, Bas Geerdink, Lead ML Engineer, and Christian Rehm, Senior Machine Learning Engineer, take us on a deeper dive into the ways Wayfair’s data scientists […]

GCP – Manhattan Associates transforms supply chain IT with Google Cloud SQL
Editor’s note: Manhattan Associates provides transformative, modern supply chain and omnichannel commerce solutions. It enhanced the scalability, availability, and reliability of its software-as-a-service through a seamless migration to Google Cloud SQL for MySQL. Geopolitical shifts and global pandemics have made the global supply chain increasingly unpredictable and complex. At Manhattan Associates, we help many of […]

GCP – ML Engineers: Partners for Scaling AI in Enterprises
Enterprises across many industries are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) at a rapid pace. Many factors fuel this accelerated adoption, including a need to realize value out of the massive amounts of data generated by multichannel customer interactions and the increasing stores of data from all facets of an enterprise’s operations. This […]
GCP – Zero-ETL approach to analytics on Bigtable data using BigQuery
Modern businesses are increasingly relying on real-time insights to stay ahead of their competition. Whether it’s to expedite human decision-making or fully automate decisions, such insights require the ability to run hybrid transactional analytical workloads that often involve multiple data sources. BigQuery is Google Cloud’s serverless, multi-cloud data warehouse that simplifies analytics by bringing together […]