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GCP – Customers cut document processing time and costs with DocAI solutions, now generally available
Some of the most important data at your company isn’t living in databases, but in documents, and most business processes begin, involve or end with a document. Yet most companies are still manually entering data and reliant on guesswork to make sense of it all as the volume and variety of data explodes. Organizations are […]
AWS – AWS Glue Studio is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region
AWS Glue Studio is now available in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. AWS Glue Studio is a visual interface for AWS Glue that makes it easy for extract-transform-and-load (ETL) developers to author, run, and monitor AWS Glue ETL jobs. You can now use a simple visual interface to compose jobs that move and transform […]
AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now generally available
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of EMR Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it easy for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark. EMR Studio provides fully managed Jupyter Notebooks, and tools like Spark […]
AWS – Announcing General Availability of Amazon Athena ML powered by Amazon SageMaker
Today, Amazon Athena announced the general availability of a new capability that makes working with machine learning models as simple as running a SQL query. You can now build and deploy machine learning models in Amazon SageMaker and use SQL functions in Amazon Athena to generate predictions from your SageMaker models. This enables analytics teams […]
Azure – Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker announces a price reduction by up to 14% on instances and SageMaker Savings Plans with up to 64% cost saving
Today we are announcing Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans, a new flexible pricing model that allows you to save up to 64% on Amazon SageMaker ML instances in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of eligible usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a 1- or 3-year term. We are also pleased to share that effective […]
GCP – How Lumiata democratizes AI in healthcare with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from AI for healthcare platform Lumiata. Here’s the story of how they use Google Cloud to power their platform—performing data prepping, model building, and deployment to tackle inherent challenges in healthcare organizations. If ever there was a year for healthcare innovation—2020 was it. At Lumiata, we’ve been on a […]
GCP – Four consecutive years of 100% renewable energy—and what’s next
We’re proud to announce that in 2020 Google again matched 100 percent of its global electricity use with purchases of renewable energy. We were the first company of our size to achieve this milestone back in 2017, and we’ve repeated the accomplishment in every year since. All told, we’ve signed agreements to buy power from […]
Azure – Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types
Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types – C6gd, M6gd, R6gd, C6gn,C5a, C5ad, d3, d3en, m5zn and R5b. These instances are supported in all commercial regions where the instances are available. Amazon EMR 5.33 ships with Apache Hudi 0.7.0, ApacheFlink 1.12.1, PrestoDB 0.245 and Zeppelin 0.9.0. Read More for the details.