Welcome to Cloud Data Science 8. This weeks news includes information about AWS working with Azure, time-series, detecting text in videos and more.

News

• Amazon Redshift now supports Authentication with Microsoft Azure AD
  Redshift, a data warehouse, from Amazon now integrates with Azure Active Directory for login. This continues a trend of cloud companies working together.
• Amazon Forecast now uses public Holidays from 30 Countries
  Forecast, which is a time-series forecasting tool, supports holidays from many countries now. This will greatly improve the forecast accuracy as holidays can play a large part in forecasting.
• Amazon Rekognition detects Text in Videos
  Rekognition, a text and video analytics tool, now supports the ability to identify text in videos. Plus, filtering for text is available.
• Dates are set for Google Cloud Next 2020
  It is April 6-8, 2020 in San Francisco
• Power BI has a new usage metrics report
  Power BI is the visualization and reporting tool from Microsoft. You can now see the views of a report broken down by platform.

Videos

• Setting Up the Google BigQuery Sandbox
  A quick video to demonstrate setting up BigQuery without using a credit card. This is helpful if you want to participate in the Big Query Challenges

• Using Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio
  This is a nice overview of the Azure Data Studio tool

Thank You

Thanks for reading the weekly news, and you can find previous editions on the Cloud Data Science News page.