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GCP – What’s new with Cloud Memorystore for Redis
Cloud Memorystore for Redis provides a fully managed in-memory store that is compatible with open source Redis. Whether you are using Redis for caching, building lightning fast gaming experience or enabling real-time experiences like threat detection, Memorystore for Redis makes it easy to deploy and manage a scalable, highly available, secure Redis service on Google […]
AWS – AWS KMS and ACM now support the latest hybrid post-quantum TLS ciphers
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now support hybrid post-quantum key establishment for transport layer security (SSL/TLS) connections using the latest post-quantum ciphers from Round 3 of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) selection process. These TLS configurations allow you to measure the potential performance impact of PQC algorithms ahead of a […]
GCP – Google Cloud VMware Engine now a part of VMware Cloud Universal program
As the pace of digital transformation accelerates, our partnership with VMware continues to focus on helping customers successfully navigate their cloud journey and achieve their business objectives through seamless and rapid migration of business critical VMware workloads. We announced the general availability of Google Cloud VMware Engine in May 2020. Since then we have worked […]
GCP – Richemont nutzt KI-Empfehlungen für ein besseres Einkaufserlebnis
Ob online, offline oder auch beides – Einzelhändler stehen im Umgang mit ihren Kund*innen vor der gleichen Herausforderung: Wie können sie ihrer Kundschaft überall und jederzeit die richtige Auswahl bieten, ohne sie zu überfordern – und sie dadurch möglicherweise zu verlieren? Hier handelt es sich in erster Linie um ein Informationsproblem – und damit eines, […]
GCP – How AI-curated suggestions serve a better client experience at Richemont
Whether they meet customers online, offline, or in some combination, retailers share a big problem: How can they offer the right choices, when and how the customer wants, without overwhelming (and often losing) the buyer? More than anything, this is an information problem. As such, it’s a good candidate for using artificial intelligence (AI) for […]
AWS – New Amazon RDS Multi-AZ option with up to 2x faster transaction commit latency is now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
The Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs) is now available in US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. This deployment option give you up to 2x faster transaction commit latency, automated failovers typically under 35 seconds, and readable […]
AWS – Experts on AWS IQ can now complete proposals with one click
AWS IQ Experts can now complete proposals with one click. Previously, you were required to send a final payment request to close a proposal, even if no additional payment was needed. Now you can select the “Complete’” button within an open proposal without requesting an additional payment. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions
Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Asia Pacific (Jakarta) regions. Using Container Insights, you can monitor, isolate, and diagnose containerized applications and microservices environments through automated dashboards. This helps you visualize the performance and health of Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate resources including […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK now supports Amazon Voice Focus noise reduction for phone calls
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Voice Focus uses artificial intelligence to help reduce background noises such as fans, lawnmowers, and barking dogs. Starting today, developers can use Amazon Voice Focus with Amazon Chime SDK Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) […]
GCP – Using Vertex AI for rapid model prototyping and deployment
Bringing AI models to a production environment is one of the biggest challenges of AI practitioners. Much of the discussions in the AI/ML space revolve around model development. As shown in this diagram from the canonical Google paper “Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems”, the bulk of activities, time and expense in building and […]