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AWS – Amazon ECS now supports warm pools for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to help applications scale out faster and save costs by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling Warm Pools with their Amazon ECS clusters. Warm Pools allow customers to create a pool of pre-initialized Amazon EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application […]
GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting Symbl.ai
Editor’s note: In the US, the UK and Australia, March is celebrated as Women’s History Month. Here at Google, we’re excited to celebrate women from all backgrounds and are committed to increasing the number of women in the technology industry. Over the next few weeks, we will shine a spotlight on women-led startups and how […]
GCP – Save big by temporarily suspending unneeded Compute Engine VMs—now GA
One of the best aspects of the cloud is the ability to purchase and use only what you need. This enables you to take advantage of modern and performant computing while fine tuning cost optimization. With Suspend/Resume, Generally Available today, you have even more control over your Google Cloud resource consumption. Similar to […]
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag based access controls
AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access to cost categories. You can define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Cost Categories based on resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these two granular access control features. Read […]
GCP – Meet AI’s multitool: Vector embeddings
Embeddings are one of the most versatile techniques in machine learning, and a critical tool every ML engineer should have in their toolbelt. It’s a shame, then, that so few of us understand what they are and what they’re good for! The problem, perhaps, is that embeddings sound slightly abstract and esoteric: In machine learning, […]
GCP – How technology is forging the foundation for more efficient, transparent and secure financial markets
Financial markets were among the first to adopt new technologies, and that has certainly been true of the derivatives markets, which were early adopters of electronic trading. Going forward, new capabilities will transform the way industry participants communicate, analyze, and trade. I sat down with Google Cloud’s Phil Moyer and former SEC Commissioner, Troy Paredes, […]
Azure – Azure Time Series Insights will be retired on 31 March 2025
We’re retiring Azure Time Series Insights on 31 March 2025 – transition to Azure Data Explorer Read More for the details.
Azure – Review your VNET configurations that may be affected by IP address changes
IP address changes will begin affecting your ability to manage your virtual network-enabled API Management services on 31 March 2023. Read More for the details.
Azure – Templates functionality preview version in Azure portal will be retired on 31 March 2025
Start using template specs in the Azure portal before 31 March 2025. Read More for the details.
GCP – Using GeoJSON in BigQuery for geospatial analytics
The first step in most analytical workloads is to ingest the data that you need for your analysis into your data warehouse. For geospatial analysis involving point, line, or polygon data, ingesting data can be complex because geospatial data comes in myriad data formats. Two of the most popular geospatial formats are GeoJSON and GeoJSON-NL […]