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Azure – Public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop is now available in the Azure China cloud
Get started today with Azure Virtual Desktop in public preview in Azure China cloud. Deploy and scale Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS App2Container now supports containerization of complex multi-tier Windows applications
AWS App2Container (A2C) now supports containerization and deployment of multi-tier Windows applications. This is in addition to A2C support for ASP.NET applications. With this release, customers can now containerize the following types of Windows applications: a) Multi-tier Windows applications — IIS applications or Windows services running in multi-tier architecture containerized separately, deployed to ECS or […]
AWS – Updated versions of AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass are now available
AWS IoT Device Tester for FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass are test automation tools for your IoT devices running FreeRTOS and AWS IoT Greengrass. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point
Amazon S3 Access Points aliases allow any application that requires an S3 bucket name to easily use an access point. With S3 Access Points, you can create hundreds of unique policies to easily control access to shared datasets. Now, you can use S3 Access Point aliases anywhere you use S3 bucket names to access data […]
AWS – Amazon Connect CTI Adapter for Salesforce now provides guided setup
The Amazon Connect Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) Adapter for Salesforce now provides an improved guided setup after installing the CTI Adapter AppExchange package. Customers leveraging the guided setup will accelerate the time to deploy and take the first call to minutes. In addition, each step of the guide will have contextual documentation links for additional […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot and Automatic Model Tuning now support more refined access control using Condition Key Policies
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while giving you full control and visibility, and Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning (AMT) automatically finds the best version of a machine learning model for any algorithm and data set. Autopilot and AMT now support enhanced access control […]
GCP – Easy data blending, intelligent reporting leveraging Google Cloud to extend Anaplan Planning
All around the globe, organizations have had to re-evaluate their enterprise planning needs to keep up with changing demands while dealing with point solutions and data scattered across disjointed systems and sources. This re-evaluation has become even more pressing with the unprecedented levels of disruption over the past 18 months. Connected planning makes enterprises agile […]
GCP – New to ML: Learning path on Vertex AI
At Google I/O this year, we announced Vertex AI: Google Cloud’s end-to-end ML platform. There’s a lot included here, as you can see from the diagram below. Figure 1. Vertex AI overview If you’re new to ML, or new to Vertex AI, this post will walk through a few example ML scenarios to help you […]
GCP – IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) increases Global Average Order Value for eCommerce by 2% with Recommendations AI
Background At IKEA we have multiple places in our customer journey in various channels where different kinds of personalization can deliver a superior customer experience. Product recommendations in the shopping basket, content recommendations in editorial sections, inspirational recommendations on product pages and more. After a while in the broader “recommendations” team there was a decision […]
GCP – How to lower costs and improve innovation with cloud computing
There is no one way to recover. The past year has seen unprecedented challenges for business across the world, with social distancing and quarantine measures forcing many organizations to quickly adapt to remote working. A new report from BCG Platinion, titled “Finding a New Normal in the Cloud”, points out that while companies have done […]