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GCP – Costs meet code with programmatic budget notifications
TL;DR – More than just alerts, budgets can also send notifications to Pub/Sub. Once they’re in Pub/Sub, you can hook up all kinds of services to react to them. You can use the information about the budget along with some code to do just about anything. Programmatic budget notifications can help you automate and fits […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d Instances now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the US East (Ohio) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: New Simplified NSX networking experience for Azure VMware Solution
Azure VMware Solution helps simplify migration to the cloud by running VMware environments natively on Azure. With the new simplified NSX networking experience, it is now easier for VMware administrators to execute networking operations for Azure VMware Solution from the Azure portal. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Redshift launches RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and RA3.xlplus in additional AWS Regions
Amazon Redshift RA3.16xlarge and RA3.4xlarge nodes are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In addition, the smallest RA3 node type, RA3.xlplus, is also now available in five additional AWS regions. RA3.xlplus is now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Bombay) and EU (Frankfurt, London, Stockholm), in addition to the previously available regions Asia Pacific […]
AWS – AWS Solutions: Serverless Bot Framework adds Amazon Lex V2 Console and API integration for an improved bot building experience
AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that automatically sets up a chatbot application with sample interactions. This update enables customers to build and iterate on their chatbots faster. The new functionalities help customers scale the use of their chatbots with additional languages and support for more natural conversations. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions
Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt and London), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Helping small business customers think big with help from cloud technology
Editor’s note: Keap selected Google Cloud initially to overcome scalability issues related to on-premises data centers. Here, we’ll look at how moving to the cloud helped Keap overcome those challenges with a whole range of Google products to bring always-on, mission-critical services to its users—and free up the time and resources to develop and push […]
GCP – Data champions: How the Golden State Warriors are turning on-court data into a competitive advantage
The Google Cloud and the Golden State Warriors (GSW) partnership began in 2019 and launched with the opening of the Chase Center, the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue in San Francisco. As the public cloud provider for the Warriors, we also joined forces to help transform the franchise through data-driven decision making. Today, the Warriors […]
GCP – City of San Jose ensures critical services reach community using AI translation
San José is one of the most diverse U.S. cities, with residents speaking more than 100 languages. Several years ago, we set out to improve city community interactions through more equitable service management and delivery. This demanded a new approach to automating the intake of requests from a majority population whose first language is not […]
GCP – Stepping up business transformation with SAP RISE and Google Cloud
The global pandemic has accelerated the digital transformations of many businesses. For the tens of thousands of customers who run SAP, this has meant accelerating the migration of SAP workloads to the cloud as businesses seek greater agility, elasticity, uptime, and benefits from cutting edge cloud AI, ML, and analytics capabilities. In that context, SAP’s […]