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GCP – How to manage your GraphQL APIs with Apigee
Over the past two decades REST APIs have emerged as a lightweight and flexible standard for enterprise data and backends get exposed to external, partner, and internal applications. Google Cloud’s Apigee is a leader in API Management, allowing users to manage REST APIs — define rate limits, enforce authentication and authorization, block clients that attempt […]

GCP – Using BigQuery with data sources in Google Cloud VMware Engine
This blog is intended for customers who have migrated on-premises data sources to Google Cloud VMware Engine and want to utilize data and analytics services provided by Google Cloud. One of the objectives of customers who choose Google Cloud is to leverage Google Cloud analytics with their datasets. If you are an IT decision maker […]

GCP – Roche, the global healthcare company, boosts employee productivity with Chrome browser
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Mario Rodriguez Maroto, Service Delivery Manager, and Tim Ehrhart, Global Team Head for Security Monitoring, both at Roche, a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the global IT team for a company the size of Roche, with 100,000 worldwide employees, we’re always looking for ways to reduce troubleshooting, improve […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances for macOS
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) M1 Mac instances for macOS are available in preview. Built on Apple silicon Mac mini computers and powered by AWS Nitro System, EC2 M1 Mac instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads. EC2 M1 Mac […]

AWS – Introducing AWS Cloud WAN Preview
Today AWS announced the preview release of AWS Cloud WAN, a new wide area networking (WAN) service that helps you build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that manages traffic running between resources in your cloud and on-premises environments. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports cross-account lineage tracking and multi-hop lineage querying
Amazon SageMaker now offers enhancements to the machine learning (ML) lineage tracking capability that enables customers to track and query the lineage of artifacts such as data, features, and models across an ML workflow. Now, customers can retrieve the end-to-end lineage graph spanning the entire workflow from data preparation to model deployment through a single […]

AWS – Announcing a simplified FreeRTOS out-of-box AWS IoT connectivity experience
Today, we are excited to announce a new and simplified out-of-box AWS IoT connectivity experience that can be implemented on two partner-provided FreeRTOS Reference Integration boards: the STM32L4+ and the ESP32-C3. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google showcases Cloud TPU v4 Pods for large model training
Recently, models with billions or trillions of parameters have shown significant advances in machine learning capabilities and accuracy. For example, Google’s LaMDA model is able to engage in a free-flowing conversation with users about a large variety of topics. There is enormous interest within the machine learning research and product communities in leveraging large models […]

GCP – Expanding our infrastructure with cloud regions around the world
Businesses and organizations around the world depend on Google Cloud to help them digitally transform, innovate across their industries, and drive operational efficiencies for long-term growth. Our global network of Google Cloud Platform regions is the foundation of this capability, delivering high-performance, low latency cloud-based services to customers and their users in more than 200 […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer announces the 2022 Season of DeepRacer League including physical races in the Summit Circuit, LIVE virtual head-to-head racing and a dedicated Student League
Today AWS announces a new structure for the 2022 Season of the award-winning AWS DeepRacer League. The AWS DeepRacer League is the world’s first global autonomous racing league, including an autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning and a 3D racing simulator where developers can get hands-on experience with Machine Learning (ML). 2022 […]