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GCP – Build a reinforcement learning recommendation application using Vertex AI
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a form of machine learning whereby an agent takes actions in an environment to maximize a given objective (a reward) over this sequence of steps. Applications of RL include learning-based robotics, autonomous vehicles and content serving. The fundamental RL system includes many states, corresponding actions, and rewards to those actions. Translate […]

AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler extends visualizations capability with a new compare option for application profile
Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Developers can use Amazon CodeGuru Profiler to understand the runtime behavior of their applications, identify and remove code inefficiencies, improve performance, and significantly decrease compute costs. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces Renews Windows Desktop Experience with Windows Server 2019 bundles and 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019
Amazon WorkSpaces now offers new bundles powered by Windows Server 2019, providing a Windows 10 desktop experience along with a 64-bit Microsoft Office 2019 Professional Plus bundle option. The feature brings a refreshed Windows 10 desktop experience, and enables customers to run applications that require recent Windows versions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS CDK releases v1.111.0 – v1.116.0 with updates for unit testing and CDK Pipelines support
During July, 2021, 6 new versions of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) for JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, .NET and Go were released (v1.111.0 through v1.116.0). With these releases, CDK Pipelines is generally available with a new API which makes it easier to define multi-environment deployment pipelines for cloud applications in all shapes and sizes. Additionally, the […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager now offers report generation for Managed Instances
AWS Systems Manager Fleet Manager, a capability in AWS Systems Manager (SSM) that helps you streamline and scale your remote server management processes, now offers the ability to generate at-a glance reporting on your SSM Managed Instances. The new feature enables you to customize the Fleet Manager information panel in which you can view alerts, […]

GCP – Access free training and learn how to automate hyperparameter tuning to find the best model
In today’s post, we’ll walk through how to easily create optimal machine learning models with BigQuery ML’s recently launched automated hyperparameter tuning. You can also register for our free training on August 19 to gain more experience with hyperparameter tuning and get your questions answered by Google experts. Can’t attend the training live? You can […]

AWS – New release of AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C simplifies authentication and provisioning of IoT devices
AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C (C-SDK) release 202108.00 includes the AWS SigV4 library and a refactored AWS IoT Fleet Provisioning client library for IoT applications. This release makes it easier for developers using C-SDK to authenticate inbound API requests to AWS services from IoT devices running HTTP, and provision IoT devices that do […]

Azure – Select Azure Cognitive Search skills will be retired on 31 August 2024
Upgrade your skills to version 3 of Azure Cognitive Search sentiment analysis and entity recognition skills. Read More for the details.

Azure – Update Java SDK 3.x to Java SDK 4.x by 31 August 2024
We’ll be retiring version 3.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK on 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.
Azure – Upgrade to Text-to-Speech Neural Voice
All standard voices will be retired on 31st August 2024. Read More for the details.