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GCP – Predict hospital readmission rates with Google Cloud Platform
Today’s challenge with healthcare data:The amount of data collected today is at an all time high and the demand to leverage and understand that data is rapidly growing. Organizations across every industry want convenient, fast, and easy access to data and insights, while allowing users to take action on it in real-time. Healthcare is no […]
GCP – Announcing a Firestore Connector for Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow
Large scale data processing workloads can be challenging to operationalize and orchestrate. We’re excited to announce the release of a Firestore in Native Mode connector for Apache Beam to make data processing easier than ever for Firestore users. Apache Beam is an open source project that supports large scale data processing with a unified batch […]
GCP – Surfboard payment app delivers next-generation checkout experiences for merchants of any size
One of the main challenges entrepreneurs face—from small merchants selling at weekly farmer’s markets to local retailers looking to become the next big brand—is handling customer payments. According to VISA, there are more than 180 million underserved micro merchants across the globe. We foundedSurfboard Payments and developed ourSurfpay app to provide micro merchants everywhere with […]
AWS – AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types
AWS Toolkits for JetBrains, VS Code and Cloud9 now provide customers with the ability to select and view from a list of 245 resource types across 94 services without leaving their IDEs. With this release, in addition to accessing AWS services that are listed by default in the AWS Explorer pane, customers can choose from hundreds […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Austrian German
Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for Austrian German. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text so you can build […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing
Starting today, you can configure EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet to automatically terminate a Spot Instance when using Capacity Rebalancing. With Capacity Rebalancing, EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet attempt to replace a Spot Instance when it is at an elevated risk of interruption as indicated by the EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation signal. Until now, EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Starting today, you can use your own encryption keys from the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt data placed in your S3 bucket. Up until now, Amazon Translate used Amazon S3-SSE to encrypt your data. AWS KMS makes it […]
GCP – Google Cloud billing tutorials: Because surprises are for home makeover shows, not your wallet
Let’s face it: billing is probably not the most fun or glamorous part of building an app or service, but it’s definitely one of the most important parts. And since billing isn’t particularly exciting, let’s start with a surprise! Just kidding! No surprises here. The truth is, I’m a routine-oriented person who doesn’t like surprises. […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations
You can configure the failover and test failover settings of your secondary IP configuration for a seamless site recovery experience. Read More for the details.