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GCP – Accelerate your data to AI journey with new features in BigQuery ML
AI is at a tipping point. We are seeing the impact of AI across more and more industries and use cases. Organizations with varying levels of ML expertise are solving business-critical problems with AI — from creating compelling customer experiences, to optimizing operations, to automating routine tasks, these organizations learn to innovate faster and ultimately, […]
GCP – Introducing Blockchain Node Engine: fully managed node-hosting for Web3 development
Blockchain is changing the way the world stores and moves its information. Building on our commitment to help Web3 developers build and deploy new products on blockchain-based platforms, today we’re thrilled to announce Google Cloud’s Blockchain Node Engine. Blockchains consist of transaction data that is permanently stored and encrypted, acting as decentralized databases of sorts. […]
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now supports network connectivity disruption
AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) now supports network connectivity disruption as a new FIS action type. Using the new disrupt connectivity action in AWS FIS, you can inject a variety of connectivity issues as part of an AWS FIS experiment. Supported connectivity issues include disrupting all traffic, or, limiting the disruption to traffic to/from a specific […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Serverless is now generally available
Amazon Neptune Serverless is a new deployment option that automatically scales capacity based on the needs of the application, making it easy and cost effective for developers to run graph databases without managing database capacity. Neptune is a fast, reliable, and fully managed graph database service for building and running applications with highly connected datasets, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect adds real-time schedule adherence
Amazon Connect now includes the ability to view agent schedule adherence in real-time as part of the forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling capabilities (preview). Within the real-time metrics page, contact center supervisors can identify when agents deviate from their planned schedule, enabling supervisors to quickly take action to help improve agent productivity. For example, if […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.10
This quality release includes bug fixes in the Azure Sphere OS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Grid Search to enable use cases that require reproducibility of hyperparameter tuning. Grid search will cover every combination of the specified hyperparameter values and yield reproducible tuning results. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring, a new Visual Studio extension
The AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring is a new extension for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2022. The extension helps transform your legacy .NET Framework applications to a modern, cloud-optimized architecture letting you fully leverage the benefits of reduced cost, increased up time, and improved scalability. It extends the functionality of Porting […]
AWS – AWS Private Certificate Authority introduces a mode for short-lived certificates
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) now offers short-lived certificate mode, a lower cost mode of AWS Private CA designed for issuing short-lived certificates. With this new mode, public key infrastructure (PKI) administrators, builders, and developers can save money when issuing certificates with validity periods of 7 days or fewer. If you use certificates […]
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Web Access for WSP now includes 7 new features, including bi-directional audio/video
Amazon WorkSpaces now supports the following new features for WorkSpaces Web Access using the WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol (WSP): Bi-directional audio/video – IT administrators can make video conferencing and other tools that use webcam and microphone available to their end users who use Web Access, to enhance the ability of teams to collaborate from anywhere. Clipboard […]