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GCP – EvoJAX: Bringing the Power of Neuroevolution to Solve Your Problems
JAX is one of the most important machine learning (ML) frameworks at Google these days that allows both simplified user code, large-scale parallelization and orders of magnitude acceleration. The framework used in recent state of the art results include Pathways Language Model (PaLM) for language understanding, Brax and JAX MD for physics and molecular dynamics […]
GCP – How Redbox improved service resilience and availability across clusters with GKE and Anthos multicluster ingress
Americans are used to seeing movie-stuffed red kiosks at stores around the country. The company that offers these movie kiosks—along with On Demand entertainment—is Redbox. Redbox started their cloud-native journey by having microservices deployed across one region with another cloud provider and this was primarily on a single Compute cluster in the region. With business […]
GCP – Catalyst Black: the next-generation mobile multiplayer action game built on Google Cloud
At Super Evil Megacorp our vision is to push the creative and technical boundaries of video games. This was the driving force behind Vainglory, released in 2014, which showcased AAA-quality games can be successful on mobile while filling a gap for multiplayer online battle arena games on mobile. Our vision continues with the development of […]
GCP – Smooth sailing: The resource hierarchy for adopting Google Cloud BigQuery across Twitter
Editor’s note: As part of an on-premises data warehousing migration to BigQuery, Twitter and Google Cloud teams created a Google Cloud resource hierarchy architecture that provides one-to-one mapping of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) to BigQuery. Designed for scalability and security, this architecture is set up to enable smoother adoption of BigQuery by mirroring […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler now enables model training with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot
Starting today, you can invoke SageMaker Autopilot from SageMaker Data Wrangler to automatically train, tune and build machine learning models. SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, […]
AWS – AWS Health Dashboard streamlines service transparency via Connector for ServiceNow
Starting today, customers can now view AWS Health and service status availability powered by AWS Health Dashboard in the Connector for ServiceNow. AWS Health provides ongoing visibility into resource performance and the availability of AWS services. Customers can view the AWS Health Dashboard to get relevant and timely information to help manage events in progress, […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Change Manager integration now displays AWS CloudTrail events associated with ServiceNow change requests.
Starting today, customers can view CloudTrail event logs corresponding to a change request using AWS Systems Manager Change Manager ServiceNow Connector. The integration helps customers understand which resources were impacted by the change request, thereby providing customers with more visibility into the change request execution. AWS Systems Manager Change Manager helps customers request, approve, implement, and […]
AWS – Incident Manager from AWS Systems Manager now streamlines responses to ServiceNow Incidents
Starting today, customers who use ServiceNow can respond, investigate and resolve incidents affecting their AWS-hosted applications using AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager and the AWS Service Management Connector. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for AWS applications and resources, that helps to automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. With the Incident Manager integration […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon R6id instances
AWS announces the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6id instances. R6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage, and up to 15% better price performance than R5d instances. Furthermore, R6id instances […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce availability of Amazon Transcribe streaming APIs in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.