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GCP – Enabling real-time AI with Streaming Ingestion in Vertex AI
Many machine learning (ML) use cases, like fraud detection, ad targeting, and recommendation engines, require near real-time predictions. The performance of these predictions is heavily dependent on access to the most up-to-date data, with delays of even a few seconds making all the difference. But it’s difficult to set up the infrastructure needed to support […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: Retailers drive profitable growth with SoundCommerce
As economic conditions change, retail brands’ reliance on ever-growing customer demand puts these companies at financial and even existential risk. Top-line revenue and active customer growth do not equal profitable growth. Despite multi-billion dollar valuations for some brands, especially those operating the direct-to-consumer model, the rising costs of meeting shoppers’ high expectations (i.e. free shipping, […]
GCP – Reduce operational complexity and costs with a central load balancer
We’re excited to announce the General Availability of cross-project service referencing with Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing and Regional External HTTP(S) Load Balancing. This new capability allows organizations to configure one central load balancer and route traffic to hundreds of services distributed across multiple different projects. You can centrally manage all traffic routing rules and policies […]
Azure – General availability (update): Improved Append Capability on Immutable Storage for Blob Storage
Immutable storage for Blob Storage on containers now includes a new append capability. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage
Immutable storage for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing local clusters for Amazon EKS on Outposts
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) on Outposts, which enable you to run highly available Kubernetes clusters in on-premises environments. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly adds Cantonese language support
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Hiujin, Amazon Polly’s first Cantonese speaking, neural text to speech (NTTS) voice Read More for the details.
GCP – Schedule Connectivity Tests for continuous networking reachability diagnostics
As the scope and size of your cloud deployments expand, the need for automation to quickly and consistently diagnose service-affecting issues increases in parallel. Connectivity Tests – part of the Network Intelligence Center capabilities focused on Google Cloud network observability, monitoring, and troubleshooting – help you quickly troubleshoot network connectivity issues by analyzing your configuration […]
GCP – Hispanic Heritage Month: Storybook makes bedtime fun with the help of Google Cloud
September 15th to October 15th is Hispanic Heritage Month—a time to celebrate Latino community, history, and culture. In the coming weeks, we’ll highlight Latino-led startups and how they use Google Cloud to grow their businesses. This blog, written by Storybook cofounder and CEO Francisco Cornejo, describes how his innovative mobile app is taking the stress […]
GCP – How Atlas AI and Google Cloud are promoting a more inclusive economy
What if governments could quantify where improved access to safe drinking water would have the greatest benefit on communities? Or if telecom and energy companies could identify ways to expand infrastructure access and improve regional wealth disparities? Satellite imagery and data from other “earth observation” sensors, combined with the analytical power of artificial intelligence (AI) […]