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GCP – Unlocking the power of connected vehicle data and advanced analytics with BigQuery
As software-defined vehicles continue to advance and the quantity of digital services grows to meet consumer demand, the data required to provide these services continue to grow as well. This makes automotive manufacturers and suppliers look for capabilities to log and analyze data, update applications, and extend commands to in-vehicle software. The challenges the automotive […]
GCP – Join the Google Cloud BI Hackathon
Calling all developers, innovators and data scientists – collaborate and build new innovative applications, tools, and data experiences on Looker and Looker Studio. Join our virtual 2 day hackathon on December 6th and win the “Best Hack” award. More reasons to join: Meet and team up with your developer community and Google Cloud Innovators Gain […]
GCP – Skaffold v2 GA: Further enhancing developer productivity
For years, Google has been committed to maximizing developer productivity. In 2019, we announced the general availability of Skaffold, a command-line tool that facilitates continuous development and delivery for containerized applications. Today, we’re excited to announce that Skaffold V2 is now generally available. Skaffold V2 expands Skaffold’s supported platforms and architectures with the introduction of […]
GCP – Google is a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services
For the fifth consecutive year, Gartner® has named Google a Leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services. Over the past year, we have continued to invest in platform and go-to-market capabilities that have an immediate impact on the speed and simplicity of building solutions on Google Cloud. We are […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2idn instance, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 G5 instances now available in Stockholm region
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are available in Stockholm. G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference, and up […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Paris) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances benefit […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 enables easier patching of guest operating system and applications with Replace Root Volume
Starting today, Amazon EC2 supports the replacement of instance root volume using an updated AMI without requiring customers to stop their instance. This allows customers to easily update their applications and guest operating system, while retaining the instance store data, networking and IAM configuration. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn Instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 Is4gen and Im4gn instances, the latest generation storage-optimized instances, are available in Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. Based on the AWS Nitro System, Im4gn and Is4gen instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and are build using AWS Nitro SSDs which enable up to 60% lower latency and up to 75% […]
AWS – Avoid runaway queries and improve query resiliency to spot interruptions with PrestoDB and Trino on EMR 6.8
Amazon EMR supports PrestoDB and Trino for running interactive SQL analytics over large datasets across multiple data sources. Today, we’re excited to announce the latest PrestoDB and Trino updates included in EMR release 6.8. Read More for the details.