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AWS – Amazon Rekognition improves the accuracy of celebrity recognition, adds new attributes
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Celebrity Recognition makes it easy for customers to automatically recognize tens of thousands of well-known personalities in images and videos using ML. Celebrity recognition significantly reduces the repetitive manual […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances
AWS Compute Optimizer now helps customers understand impact of migrating to Graviton2-based instances by recommending up to 3 Graviton2-based instance type options for x86-based Linux instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions
Amazon Textract is a managed service that leverages computer vision and machine learning to automatically extract printed and handwritten text, tables and forms data from scanned documents with no machine learning experience necessary. Today, we are excited to announce that effective September 1, 2021, customers will see a price reduction of up to 32% and save […]
GCP – Helping organizations around the globe navigate the future of work
Google Workspace’s secure collaboration and productivity apps have played a key role in helping teams stay connected as they navigate new ways of working, whether it’s redesigning internal processes or maintaining customer service remotely. With tools that strengthen collaboration and foster ideation for teams near and far, our mission is to help businesses build a […]
GCP – BigQuery Admin reference guide: Monitoring
Last week, we shared information on BigQuery APIs and how to use them, along with another blog on workload management best practices. This blog focuses on effectively monitoring BigQuery usage and related metrics to operationalize workload management we discussed so far. Monitoring Options for BigQuery Resource BigQuery Monitoring Best Practices Visualization Options For Decision Making […]
AWS – AWS Snowcone is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) and AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions
The AWS Snowcone service is now available for customer orders in the AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) and, AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. With this launch, Snowcone is now available for order in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West […]
GCP – How BungkusIT uses Google Maps Platform to run errands and deliver packages for over one million customers across Malaysia
Editor’s note: Today’s post is written by Hatim M, Chief Commercial Officer at BungkusIT. The on-demand delivery service delivers packages within the hour for one million customers across Malaysia and uses Google Maps Platform to create a seamless end-to-end delivery experience for its customers. Imagine it’s the end of a long day at work, and […]
GCP – Celebrating Women’s Equality Day with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: August 26th is Women’s Equality Day, a day celebrated in the United States to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote on the basis of sex. This post celebrates this moment in U.S. […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Registry now supports Inference Pipelines
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now supports registering and deploying SageMaker inference pipelines with the model registry. SageMaker Pipelines includes a model registry, which is a central repository for cataloging models for production, managing model versions, associating metadata with models, managing approval statuses […]