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GCP – How Caribou Coffee uses reCAPTCHA Enterprise to create safe and frictionless digital experiences
Like most businesses, we are constantly evolving and innovating to keep pace with the digital world. Last year, many experiences we had with our customers shifted to being online. And while our virtual customer interactions increased, so did attempted attacks. We needed to secure our customers’ experiences while simultaneously not disrupting them. Today, we’re going […]
GCP – Protecting Healthcare data with DLP: A guide for getting started
Protecting patient data is of paramount importance to any healthcare provider. This is not only because of the many laws and regulations in different countries around the world requiring this data to be safeguarded, but it is a foundational requirement for trust between a provider and their patient. This does create some tension between patients […]
GCP – Anomaly detection with TensorFlow Probability and Vertex AI
Time series anomaly detection is currently a trending topic—statisticians are scrambling to recalibrate their models for retail demand forecasting and more given the recent drastic changes in consumer behavior. As an intern, I was given the task of creating a machine-learning based solution for anomaly detection on Vertex AI to automate these laborious processes of […]
GCP – Replicating from Cloud Spanner to BigQuery at scale
Cloud Spanner is GCP’s native and distributed Online Transaction Processing System (OLTP). Due to its distributed nature, it can scale horizontally and therefore is suitable for workloads with very high throughputs containing large volumes of data. This invites a huge opportunity to do analytics on top of it. Thanks to Cloud Spanner BigQuery Federation, you […]
AWS – Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards
Amazon CloudWatch announces the immediate availability of custom widgets, a new feature that enables you to gain operational visibility and agility by customizing the content of your CloudWatch dashboard such as adding visualizations, displaying information from multiple data sources or adding controls like buttons to take remediation actions. A set of templates and a sample […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to resize your VPC prefix list, making it easier to manage your security posture and routing behavior as your network grows. Prefix lists allow you to group multiple CIDR blocks into a single object, and use it as a reference to simplify network configuration. You can share […]
GCP – Real-time analytics made easy with Cloud Spanner federated queries with BigQuery
As enterprises compete for market share, their need for real-time insights has given rise to increased demand for transactional databases to support data analytics. Whether it’s to provide dashboards that inform rapid decision-making, to perform analysis on a lookup table stored in a transactional database, or to conduct complex hybrid transactional analytical workloads, there is […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Refer to AWS GovCloud documentation to learn more, and see where AWS Glue DataBrew is available by using […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 6 new languages – Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English
Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports batch transcription in six new languages – Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech to text capabilities to your applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – All you need to know about Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is a global, secure, and scalable object store for immutable data such as images, text, videos, and other file formats. You can add data to it or retrieve data from it as often as your application needs. The objects stored have an ID, metadata, attributes, and the actual data. The metadata can include […]