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GCP – Recommendations AI modeling
In this series of Recommendations AI deep dive blog posts, we started with an overview of Recommendations AIand then walked through the data ingestion process. In this post, we will walk you through the model creation process and how you can get the best of Google’s AI and ML techniques to solve your business problems […]

AWS – AWS IoT Device Defender now supports Detect alarm verification states
With AWS IoT Device Defender, customers can now verify an alarm based on their investigation of detected behavior anomalies. They can verify an alarm as True positive, Benign positive, False positive, or Unknown and provide a description of their verification. Users, such as a security or operational team, can use this to manage alarms and […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway simplifies tape management for Tape Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway now makes it easier and faster for you to search, view, and manage your virtual tapes stored in AWS using Tape Gateway. From the Tapes page in the Storage Gateway management console, you can now quickly search for tapes using common filters such as tape barcode and status. You simply select the desired […]

AWS – Now Use Lifecycle Configurations to Customize Amazon SageMaker Studio
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, as well as build, train, and deploy models. With a single click, data scientists and ML developers can quickly spin […]

AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports auto scaling in 17 additional public regions
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis auto scaling is now generally available in all public AWS regions excluding AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China (Beijing and Ningxia) Regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS announces availability of Microsoft Windows Server 2022 images on Amazon EC2
AWS customers can now use managed Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) with Microsoft Windows Server 2022. With these AMIs, customers can launch Windows Server 2022 and take full advantage of the latest Windows features on AWS. Amazon EC2 makes launching and running Windows Server 2022 easy whether it is for testing and enabling new features in […]

GCP – Introducing Quota Monitoring Solution: Single Dashboard with Alerting capabilities
If you are looking for an automated way to manage quotas over a large number of projects, we are excited to introduce a Quota Monitoring Solution from Google Cloud Professional Services. By default, Google Cloud employs resource quotas to restrict how much of a particular shared Google Cloud resource you can use. Each quota represents […]

GCP – Build your data analytics skills with the latest no cost BigQuery trainings
BigQuery is a fully-managed enterprise data warehouse that helps you manage and analyze your data with built-in features like machine learning, geospatial analysis, and intelligent caching for business intelligence. To help you make the most of BigQuery, we’re offering the following no cost, on-demand training opportunities: BigQuery basics In this training, you’ll learn the basics […]

GCP – Updated data processing terms to reflect new EU Standard Contractual Clauses
For years, Google Cloud customers who are subject to European data protection laws1 have relied on our Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs), as previously approved by regulators, to legitimize overseas transfers of their customer personal data when using our services. Today, we are glad to announce an update to our data processing terms for Google Cloud Platform, […]