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AWS – Automate visual inspection of product defects at the edge with Amazon Lookout for Vision – now generally available
Amazon Lookout for Vision is now generally available to AWS customers to use at the edge. You can deploy your trained Amazon Lookout for Vision models to a hardware device of your choice and run inference locally without any cloud dependencies. Your trained models can be deployed on any NVIDIA Jetson edge appliance or x86 compute platform […]
GCP – Customer Care portfolio: Flexible, scalable, robust support
Technical support is now more critical than ever. It’s crucial to keeping your business running smoothly, while rapidly adjusting to an increasingly hybrid workforce that needs to stay connected at all times. Although the scale may vary, organizations of all sizes face similar challenges. We launched the Cloud Customer Care portfolio, a significant evolution in […]
GCP – A handheld lab: How Cue Health is revolutionizing healthcare diagnostics for COVID and beyond
Editor’s note: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Cue Health, inventors of the portable Cue Health Monitoring System and Cue COVID-19 At-Home Test, engaged Google Cloud to help quickly transform and scale their back-end operations. The company had largely been in research-and-Development mode since its founding in 2010 and needed to shift to commercial mode, […]
AWS – Announcing Windows support for containerd runtime on EKS starting with Kubernetes 1.21
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service now supports the containerd container runtime on Windows worker nodes. Containerd is a lightweight container runtime that manages the complete container lifecycle on its host system, from container image transfer to execution, as well as storage and network attachment. Customers with Windows workloads can now get similar performance, security, and stability benefits […]
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection supports integration with AWS Chatbot
Starting today, you can receive AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alert notifications in Slack and Amazon Chime through AWS Chatbot. Integration with AWS Chatbot allows you to easily configure your cost anomaly alert subscriptions with a Slack or Amazon Chime chat channel. This allows you to receive individual AWS Cost Anomaly Detection alerts within your existing […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports on-premises workload orchestration on Windows OS
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports managing on-premises workloads running on a Windows operating system with Amazon ECS Anywhere. Amazon ECS Anywhere is a capability of Amazon ECS that enables customers to more easily run and manage container-based applications on-premises, including virtual machines (VMs), bare metal servers, and other customer-managed infrastructure. Customers, who need to […]
AWS – AWS Network Firewall achieves FedRAMP High compliance
AWS Network Firewall has achieved FedRAMP High authorization for the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. You can now use AWS Network Firewall to protect and control access to and from your Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in these regions for workloads that require FedRAMP High categorization level. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Cognito launches support for in-region integration with Amazon SES and Amazon SNS
Amazon Cognito now enables you to use Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) in the same region where your Amazon Cognito user pools are configured. By integrating these services in the same region, you can more easily achieve lower latency, and follow best practices in regional configuration. Read […]
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall significantly reduces service cost
Over the course of March 2022, Amazon is reducing the cost of using the Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in all regions. First, Amazon is launching new tiered pricing effective March 1 that provides for reduced query processing fees as your query volume increases. Secondly, Amazon is implementing internal optimizations to reduce the number […]
GCP – How the CARTO platform enables the creation of advanced data visualizations with Google Maps Platform and deck.gl
Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is from Alberto Asuero, CTO of CARTO, the location intelligence platform. Today he shares more details about the source of the data for advanced data visualizations created with Google Maps Platform and deck.gl and how the CARTO platform enables this workflow. During Google Cloud Next in October, the Google team […]