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AWS – Amazon EC2 C6i instances are now available in 10 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6i instances are available in these additional AWS Regions US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo).C6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in 8 additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 R6i instances are available in additional AWS Regions US West (N. California), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (London), and Europe (Paris). Designed for memory-intensive workloads, R6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight […]
GCP – Find anything blazingly fast with Google’s vector search technology
Recently, Google Cloud partner Groovenauts, Inc. published a live demo of MatchIt Fast. As the demo shows, you can find images and text similar to a selected sample from a collection of millions in a matter of milliseconds: Image similarity search with MatchIt Fast Give it a try — and either select a preset image […]
AWS – Amazon FinSpace now provides Quick Setup with pre-configured data catalog, sample data, and improved data loading
Amazon FinSpace now makes it even easier to start analyzing data with newly included financial services sample data, catalog configurations with taxonomy and metadata, capabilities to load your data into Amazon FinSpace, and the ability to run multiple Spark jobs in parallel. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud recommendations for investigating and responding to the Apache “Log4j 2” vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)
In this post, we’ll provide recommendations from the Google Cybersecurity Action Team and discuss solutions available to Google Cloud customers and security teams to manage the risk of the Apache “Log4j 2” vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228). Please visit Google Cloud’s advisory page for the latest updates on our assessment of CVE-2021-44228, and the potential impact of the […]
AWS – Amazon Lookout for Vision now supports visual inspection of product defects at the edge
Amazon Lookout for Vision is excited to preview support for anomaly detection at the edge. Starting today, you can use your trained Amazon Lookout for Vision models on the edge by deploying these models to a hardware device of your choice. Your trained models can be deployed on any NVIDIA Jetson edge appliance or x86 compute […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now supports using multiple custom AMIs when you mix AWS Graviton2-based instances with non-Graviton2 instances in a single EMR cluster
Amazon EMR now supports using multiple custom Amazon Machine Images (AMI) when you mix Arm-based AWS Graviton2-based instances with non-Graviton2 based instances in a single cluster. This capability allows you to diversify across more instance types when using custom AMIs, helping improve your access to EC2 capacity for large clusters. Prior to this release, you […]
GCP – Google Cloud helps UK-based fintech Fluidly scale to 50,000 customers and beyond
Small businesses are the backbone of economies, and over the last four-plus years, UK-based startup Fluidly has built an industry-leading platform that helps small businesses and their accountants simplify their most critical accounting and cash flow work. Fluidly provides businesses intelligent cash flow management, which Hans Morris, a managing partner and early Fluidly investor at […]
GCP – Investigating the usage of GCP Service Accounts
Service accounts on Google Cloud are used when a workload needs to access resources or conduct actions without end-user involvement. There are multiple methods of authenticating using service accounts, including using service accounts as part of Google Compute Engine instances, impersonating service accounts, or using service accounts with a key file — an option which […]
GCP – Machine learning, Google Kubernetes Engine, and more: 10 free training offers to take advantage of before 2022
We’re continuing to offer learning opportunities at no charge to help you grow your Google Cloud skills. Here are ten training offers you can take advantage of before the end of this year to keep building your knowledge of machine learning, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and more. Register here by January 10, 2022 to receive […]