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GCP – How SLSA and SBOM can help healthcare resiliency
Taking prescription medication at the direction of anyone other than a trained physician is very risky—and the same could be said for selecting technology used to run a hospital, to manage a drug manufacturing facility and, increasingly, to treat a patient for a medical condition. To pick the right medication, physicians need to carefully consider […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches monitoring with CloudWatch metrics
Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of QuickSight assets by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. QuickSight developers and administrators can use these metrics to observe and respond to the availability and performance of their QuickSight ecosystem in near real time. They can monitor dataset ingestions, dashboards, and visuals to provide their readers with a consistent, performant, […]

AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support is generally available for SageMaker Ground Truth
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth helps you build high-quality training datasets for your machine learning (ML) models. With SageMaker Ground Truth, you can use workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, a vendor company that you choose, or your own private workforce to create labeled datasets for training ML models. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports synthetic data generation
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now provides support so you can generate labeled synthetic data without collecting large amounts of real-world, manually labeled data. Amazon SageMaker provides two data labeling offerings, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. You can use both options to identify raw data […]

AWS – AWS announces Amazon CodeWhisperer (Preview)
Amazon CodeWhisperer is a machine learning (ML)–powered service that helps improve developer productivity by generating code recommendations based on developers’ comments in natural language and their code in the integrated development environment (IDE). During preview, CodeWhisperer is available for Java, JavaScript, and Python programming languages. The service integrates with multiple IDEs, including JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, […]

Azure – General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
Enable fetching secrets from an Azure Key Vault directly into the workload running on an Arc connected Kubernetes cluster. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL—Generally available updates for late June 2022
Generally available updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure SQL—Public preview updates for late June 2022
Public preview updates made in late June 2022 for Azure SQL. Read More for the details.

GCP – Announcing Data-driven styling: style Google map boundaries to convey key information
Displaying data through maps enables you to communicate key information to your users in a more visually engaging and intuitive way. One way to do this is through utilizing polygons to highlight regions and data. Many of you have told us that purchasing, updating, and maintaining your own boundary data to style polygons and create […]
GCP – Impact.com: Forging a new era of business growth through partnerships
Business partnerships come in all shapes and forms: from affiliate and influencer marketing, to SaaS providers and strategic B2B alliances. For all parties to be successful and drive business growth through a partnership, they must have a way to manage, track, and measure the incremental value their partners provide throughout their relationship. That’s why impact.com […]