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GCP – How organizations can rethink their approach to time management coaching
As business leaders evaluate their hybrid work models, employee productivity is top of mind. They’re trying to understand how to balance organizational needs for productivity with employee needs for autonomy, flexibility, and work/life balance. In my role as Google’s Productivity Advisor, I help organizations and employees realize that being productive means working smartly and efficiently […]

GCP – Zero Trust and BeyondCorp Google Cloud
Let’s say in 2021, you are organizing an in-person event. You need to make sure it’s COVID-safe for everyone attending, so you set up a system in which every person is tested and only allowed in if the results are negative. You had every invitee fill out a form where they shared their negative test […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas expands capabilities to better prepare and analyze data for machine learning
We’re excited to announce expanded capabilities for data preparation and analysis in Amazon SageMaker Canvas including replacing missing values, replacing outliers, and the flexibility to choose different sample sizes for your datasets. Amazon SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports alternate SageMaker training instance types for more robust tuning
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports specifying multiple alternate SageMaker training instance types to make tuning jobs more robust when the preferred instance type is not available due to insufficient capacity. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now supports the Decimal128 data type
Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a database service that is purpose-built for JSON data management at scale, fully managed and integrated with AWS, and enterprise-ready with high durability. Read More for the details.

Azure – Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews
Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure Lab Services August 2022 update
Improve performance, reliability, and scalability for Azure Lab Services with the latest update. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host restart
Azure Dedicated Host restart is now in public preview. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks
Serverless SQL for Azure Databricks provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads without waiting for clusters to start up or scale out. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Update management center in Azure
Update management center is the next iteration of the Azure Automation Update Management solution. It works out of the box, with zero onboarding steps and has no dependency on Azure Automation and Log Analytics. Read More for the details.