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Azure – General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. Read More for the details.
GCP – How geospatial insights can help meet business goals
Organizations that collect geospatial data can use that information to understand their operations, help make better business decisions, and power innovation. Traditionally, organizations have required deep GIS expertise and tooling in order to deliver geospatial insights. In this post, we outline some ways that geospatial data can be used in various business applications. Assessing environmental […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s data ingestion principles
Businesses around the globe are realizing the benefits of replacing legacy data silos with cloud-based enterprise data warehouses, including easier collaboration across business units and access to insights within their data that were previously unseen. However, bringing data from numerous disparate data sources into a single data warehouse requires you to develop pipelines that ingest […]
GCP – Faster distributed GPU training with Reduction Server on Vertex AI
Neural networks are computationally intensive and often take hours or days to train. Data parallelism is a method to scale the training speed with the number of workers (e.g. GPUs). At each step, the training data is split in mini-batches to be distributed across workers, and each worker computes its own set of gradient updates, […]
AWS – AWS Audit Manager custom framework sharing is now generally available
AWS Audit Manager now offers custom framework sharing so you have a secure and easy way to share custom frameworks across AWS accounts and regions. This enables instant access of your custom frameworks across multiple AWS accounts, without the need to manually copy or move underlying custom controls. Custom framework sharing provides quick access to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for users, user hierarchy groups, and hours of operation
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation on three new APIs: Users, User Hierarchies, and Hours of Operation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy these Amazon Connect resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use these templates to maintain consistency across Amazon Connect […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to configure hours of operation programmatically
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically create and manage hours of operation. Using this API, you can programmatically configure hours of operation which can be used in contact flows to decide which queue to route contacts to. Additionally, you can now delete hours of operation that are no longer required using the delete […]
AWS – AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.3 now available with support for ALB IPv6 targets
The AWS Load Balancer Controller provides a Kubernetes native way to configure and manage Elastic Load Balancers that route traffic to applications running in Kubernetes clusters. Elastic Load Balancing offers multiple load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to help make your applications fault tolerant. Read More for […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Implementation: Web Client for AWS Transfer Family
Web Client for AWS Transfer Family provides an intuitive web browser interface for using AWS Transfer for Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). It allows you to adopt AWS Transfer Family plus provides a simple web portal to your corporate SFTP environments for your users. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Fault Injection Simulator now injects Spot Instance Interruptions
You can now inject Amazon EC2 Spot Instance interruptions into your Spot Instance workloads using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS). Spot Instances enable you to run compute workloads on Amazon EC2 at steep discounts in exchange for returning the Spot Instances when Amazon EC2 needs the capacity back. Because it is always possible that your […]