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GCP – Wayfair teams up with Google Cloud for the inaugural Wayfair-Google Cloud Machine Learning Hackathon
On Dec 9th and 10th, Wayfair and Google Cloud came together for the inaugural Wayfair-Google Cloud Machine Learning Hackathon. Wayfair firmly believes that hackathons are a great way to fuel a culture of collaboration and experimentation. To fuel Wayfair’s incredible pace of innovation at scale, it’s team of more than 3,000 technologists is constantly experimenting […]

AWS – EC2 Image Builder adds console support for custom image creation from on-premise images
Now customers can use EC2 Image Builder to build custom images from their on-premise images in a single console-based experience. This capability makes it easier for customers to incorporate on-premise images stored in S3 (in OVA, VHD, VHDX, VMDK and raw format) in EC2 Image Builder pipelines. Those customers can now leverage existing EC2 Image […]

AWS – NICE DCV releases web client SDK 1.0.4 with multiple connection support
NICE DCV web client software development kit (SDK) version 1.0.4 introduces support for multiple concurrent connections. Developers can now use the web client SDK to build applications with multiple side-by-side streaming views that show different DCV sessions in a single webpage. Read More for the details.

AWS – NICE DCV releases version 2021.3 with DCV Connection Gateway
NICE DCV version 2021.3 introduces multiple new features such as DCV Connection Gateway and a refreshed DCV Web Client user interface. NICE DCV is a high-performance remote display protocol that helps customers securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs. Read More for the details.

GCP – Google Cloud’s top AI blog posts from 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) remained in the spotlight over the last year, as the gap continued to grow between organizations that merely possess data and those that can use data to leverage the power of AI to generate actionable insights or improve customer experiences. At Google Cloud, helping you turn AI investments into real-world results is […]

GCP – Google Meet in 2021: A year of accelerated innovation
2021 has been a year of change for all of us as the pandemic continued to expedite technology’s role in keeping us connected through video. Google Meet played a significant role in enabling those connections, helping friends, families, and colleagues across the globe safely come together. As we saw in our recent global Economist Impact […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports pre-configured connectors from Segment and Shopify
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports near real-time data ingestion from Segment and Shopify. Use existing Segment data sources to ingest customer information such as name, email address, and phone number into Amazon Connect. Once your connectors are configured, customer profiles are created and updated in near real-time for new customer actions such as new customer registration, […]

AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now FedRAMP compliant
AWS Transfer Family is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in GovCloud(US-West) and GovCloud(US-East). Read More for the details.

AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for .NET 6 and conversion of ASP.NET Web Forms applications to ASP.NET Core Blazor
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports .NET 6 as a target framework and porting of certain ASP.NET Web Forms application configurations to ASP.NET Core Blazor framework. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate select Web Forms view/UI layer files, page life-cycle events, and application life cycle events to the cross-platform Blazor Framework. Developers can use […]
AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool adds four new Trusted Advisor checks
AWS Well-Architected now supports four new AWS Trusted Advisor checks as a unified home of best practice recommendations to identify the most impactful risks and take action to mitigate them. The new checks are: 1. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for cost optimization 2. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance efficiency 3. AWS Well-Architected […]