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GCP – Build, deploy, and scale ML models faster with Vertex AI’s new training features
Vertex AI includes over a dozen powerful MLOps tools in one unified interface, so you can build, deploy, and scale ML models faster. We’re constantly updating these tools, and we recently enhanced Vertex AI Training with an improved Local Mode to speed up your debugging process and Auto-Container Packaging to simplify cloud job submissions. In […]
AWS – Announcing a new AWS Billing console Home page experience
Starting today, the AWS Billing console has a new Home page experience, providing an at-a-glance view of your AWS charges. The AWS Billing console allows you to easily understand your AWS spend, view and pay invoices, manage billing preferences and tax settings, and access additional Cloud Financial Management services. The Billing console Home page helps […]
GCP – Introducing Compute Optimized VMs powered by AMD EPYC processors
Over the last six months, we launched 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ CPUs (formerly code-named “Milan”) across our Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) families. We introduced the Tau VM family, targeting scale-out workloads. Tau VMs are the leader both in terms of performance and workload total cost of ownership (TCO) from any leading provider available today. We also refreshed our […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Video supports 7 new languages and improves accuracy for text detection
Amazon Rekognition can detect and read text in an image or video, and return bounding boxes for each word found. On 11/17/2021, we launched support for 7 new languages in Amazon Rekognition text detection in images – Arabic, Russian, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Amazon Rekognition can automatically detect and extract text in images […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Transfer Family is available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces – Now Generally Available
Ready to fast-track application refactoring? AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the new starting point for incremental app refactoring. Using Refactor Spaces, customers focus on refactoring their applications, and not the creation and management of the underlying infrastructure that makes refactoring possible. Refactor Spaces orchestrates AWS services across multiple accounts to create a refactor environment […]
AWS – AWS Organizations console now lets users centrally manage alternate contacts on AWS accounts
Today, we are enhancing the AWS Organizations console to enable you to centrally view and update the alternate contacts for your AWS accounts. To ensure that you receive important notifications about your AWS accounts, we previously released the Accounts SDK that enabled you to programmatically manage billing, operations, and security contacts for accounts in your organization. With this […]
GCP – How a zero trust approach protects governments and constituents against fraud
With the rise in digital services, government programs that distribute money to constituents are facing serious identity fraud challenges. In 2020, the massive increase in available benefits attracted significant fraudulent activity–leading to billions of misdirected funds, such as $6 billion in alleged losses to federal healthcare programs1. Fraudsters use stolen identities to file false tax […]
GCP – SoFi Stadium powers the return of live entertainment with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Engineers from SoFi Stadium, Google Cloud, and Deloitte built a fan-ready Personal Concierge app that uses advanced analytics to tailor game-day experiences for every visitor. SoFi’s 10-year partnership with Google Cloud not only pumps up the fans. Advanced analytics also enable stadium employees to securely store, analyze, and action analytics data, and seamlessly collaborate […]
GCP – Managed Istio-based service mesh on our managed GKE clusters: Anthos Service Mesh comes to GKE Autopilot
We launched GKE Autopilot last year and since then, we’ve been hard at work adding additional functionality to deliver a fully featured, fully managed Kubernetes platform. Today, we’re excited to introduce Anthos Service Mesh availability on GKE Autopilot Clusters. (Not familiar with GKE Autopilot or Anthos Service Mesh yet? Check out the Autopilot breakout session […]