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GCP – Cloud Bigtable launches Autoscaling plus new features for optimizing costs and improved manageability
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed, scalable NoSQL database service for large operational and analytical workloads used by leading businesses across industries, such as The Home Depot, Equifax, and Twitter. Bigtable has more than 10 Exabytes of data under management and processes more than 5 billion requests per second at peak. Today, we’re announcing the […]
GCP – Bigtable Autoscaling: Deep dive and cost saving analysis
Cloud Bigtable is a fully managed service that can swiftly scale to meet performance and storage demands with the click of a button. If you’re currently using Bigtable, you might configure your cluster sizes to perform for peak throughput or programmatically scale to match your workload. Bigtable now supports autoscaling for improved manageability, and in […]
GCP – Google Tau VMs deliver over 40% price-performance advantage to customers
In November 2021, we announced the general availability of Tau VMs. Since then, Google Cloud’s Tau VMs with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) have unlocked value for many customers who are now using Tau VMs for their production workloads, such as: Ascend, who achieved over 125% higher performance; Nylas, who gained over 40% higher price-performance; and […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon EC2 R5b instances are now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. R5b instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and offer up to 60 Gbps of EBS bandwidth and 260,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS), enabling customers to lift and shift memory intensive applications to AWS. R5b instances provide 3x higher EBS-Optimized […]
AWS – Amazon Textract adds synchronous support for single page PDF documents and support for PDF documents containing JPEG 2000 encoded images
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. Read More for the details.
GCP – Announcing Quick Builder, a new low-code tool for you to build location-based experiences
Here at Google Maps Platform, we are embracing low-code development. For more than 15 years, we’ve helped customers like Argos, Dunzo, and Redfin drive success by building custom location-based solutions from scratch. While this approach allows for deep customization, we recognize that not all of our customers have the resources or bandwidth to complete these […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances
Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are available. Amazon EC2 X2iezn instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all core turbo frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, the fastest in the cloud. X2iezn instances deliver the highest all-core turbo CPU performance from Intel Xeon Scalable processors in the […]
AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now protects Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service clusters
Amazon GuardDuty has expanded coverage to continuously monitor and profile Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) cluster activity to identify malicious or suspicious behavior that represents potential threats to container workloads. Amazon GuardDuty for EKS Protection monitors control plane activity by analyzing Kubernetes audit logs from existing and new Amazon EKS clusters in your accounts. […]
AWS – Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now supports custom vocabulary for tuning transcription accuracy
Contact Lens for Amazon Connect now includes a new custom vocabulary capability that helps businesses improve the accuracy of speech recognition for product names, brand names, and domain-specific terminology by expanding the vocabulary of Contact Lens’ speech-to-text engine. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud now the most favored platform for research globally, according to Ipsos
In the summer of 2021 Google Cloud Public Sector commissioned Ipsos to ask researchers in educational institutions around the world about their use of cloud computing. The study aimed to measure awareness and usage of Google Cloud, as well as other cloud providers, in order to assess the benefits and challenges of cloud integration. To […]