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GCP – Intro to data science on Google Cloud
While you likely know that data science is the practice of making data useful, you may not have a clear landscape around the tools that can aid each stage of the data science workflow as you use machine learning to tackle your challenges. Read on to discover the six broad areas that are critical to […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. We are excited to announce multiple transcripts and confidence scores support for speech input. The transcripts provide alternate interpretations of the user’s speech input. Each transcript is associated with a confidence score that indicates the likelihood of a match. […]
AWS – AWS Lambda auto scaling improvements for Amazon MSK and self-managed Apache Kafka as event sources
AWS Lambda has launched improved auto scaling for Amazon MSK and self-managed Kafka as event sources to improve performance and help lower costs for customers. Lambda starts with one consumer and checks the OffsetLag metric (measure of backlog at source) every minute and scales up or down every 3 minutes. Lambda allows up to one […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports a configurable chat duration of up to 7 days
Amazon Connect now allows you to configure your chat duration from 1 hour to 7 days. This enables you to define how long your customers have to resume a chat interaction before it expires. To configure the duration of chats in Amazon Connect, simply add an optional, new parameter when calling the StartChatContact API to […]
GCP – Smarter applications with Document AI, Workflows and Cloud Functions
At enterprises across industries, documents are at the center of core business processes. Documents store a treasure trove of valuable information whether it’s a company’s invoices, HR documents, tax forms and much more. However, the unstructured nature of documents make them difficult to work with as a data source. We call this “dark data” or […]
AWS – AWS Step Functions adds mocking support for testing workflows locally
AWS Step Functions Local, a runtime for debugging and testing state machine based workflows locally, is now designed to support mocking for service integrations, allowing you to run state machines without the need to call downstream services. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon MSK now offers the ability to scale storage throughput up to 1000 MiB/s per broker
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now offers an option to provision storage throughput for Amazon MSK, enabling customers with high throughput workloads to seamlessly scale I/O without having to provision additional brokers. By provisioning up to 1000 MiB/s of throughput to Amazon MSK storage volumes, you can scale I/O requirements past 250 MiB/s […]
GCP – BigQuery Connector for SAP: Power your cloud data analytics strategy
Google Cloud has a genuine passion for solving technology problems that make a difference for our customers. With the release of our BigQuery Connector for SAP, we’re taking a another big step towards solving a major challenge for SAP customers with a quick, easy, and inexpensive way to integrate SAP data with BigQuery, our serverless, […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: January 2022
I’m excited to share our first Cloud CISO Perspectives post of 2022. It’s already shaping up to be an eventful year for our industry and we’re only in month one. There’s a lot to recap in this post, including the U.S. government’s recent efforts to address critical security issues, like open source software security and […]
GCP – Introducing Certificate Manager to simplify SaaS scale TLS and certificate management
We’re excited to announce the public preview of Certificate Manager and its integration with External HTTPS Load Balancing. Certificate Manager enables you to use External HTTPS Load Balancing with as many certificates or domains as you need. You can bring your own TLS certificates and keys if you have an existing certificate lifecycle management solution […]