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AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in Asia Pacific (Bombay), Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) AWS regions
AWS IoT SiteWise is now available in the Bombay, Seoul, and Tokyo AWS Regions, extending the footprint to 11 AWS Regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – A new way to explore what’s possible with Google Maps Platform
For more than 15 years, developers have used Google Maps Platform to deliver location-based experiences to their end users and used location intelligence to optimize their businesses. Along this journey, we’ve made a variety of changes to better support our community as needs have changed and new industries and technologies have emerged. We started rolling […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra launches support for 34 additional languages
We are excited to announce that Amazon Kendra is adding support for 34 languages for keyword-based search over documents and FAQs. Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Customers with content in one or more of the supported languages can now use Amazon Kendra to index and search their content with […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds support for Pixel-Perfect dashboards
Amazon QuickSight now supports pixel-perfect dashboards with the new free-form layout mode. Free-form layouts provide authors with precise, pixel-level control over the size and placement of visual elements on QuickSight dashboards, including support for overlapping content. In addition, authors can also set additional attributes for QuickSight visuals in free-form layout, including background color, transparency, border […]
AWS – Announcing Fast File Mode for Amazon SageMaker
Amazon SageMaker now supports Fast File Mode for accessing data in training jobs. This enables high performance data access by streaming directly from Amazon S3 with no code changes from the existing File Mode. For example, training a K-Means clustering model on a 100GB dataset took 28 minutes with File Mode but only 5 minutes with […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches new recipe that increases the relevance of similar items recommendations
We are excited to announce a new recipe in Amazon Personalize that, when given an item, will recommend similar items based on both user-item interaction data and item metadata. The combination of your users’ historical interactions and the information you have about your items increases the relevance of recommendations and ensures similar items capture your users’ […]
Azure – Public preview: Standard Network Features for Azure NetApp Files
Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files volumes is now in public preview in select regions. This includes support for increased IP limits, Network Security Groups, User-defined routes, and additional connectivity patterns like connectivity over Active/Active VPN gateway and ExpressRoute FastPath Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports IAM authentication for Amazon MSK as an event source
AWS Lambda functions that are triggered from Amazon MSK topics can now access MSK clusters secured by IAM Access Control. This is in addition to SASL/SCRAM, which is already supported on Lambda. To get started, customers who select MSK as the event source for their Lambda function can configure their function’s execution role to allow Lambda […]
GCP – Debugging Vertex AI training jobs with the interactive shell
Training a machine learning model successfully can be a challenging and time consuming task. Unlike typical software development, the results of training depend on both the training code and the input data. This can make debugging a training job a complex process, even when you’re running it on your local machine. Running code on remote […]
GCP – Next ‘21 – Your guide to Google Cloud Security sessions
Google Next ’21 is just a few days away! We have an exciting lineup in the security track that will help you understand the Google Cloud security offerings available to protect your employees and assets, intellectual property, users, and brand. Thesecurity track at Next ’21 includes a security spotlight session, breakout sessions, panel discussions, hands-on […]