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GCP – Choosing the right machine learning approach for your application
Many of our customers want to know how to choose a technology stack for solving problems with machine learning (ML). There are many choices for these solutions available, some that you can build and some that you can buy. We’ll be focusing on the build side here, exploring the various options and the problems they […]
GCP – New research: Enterprises more confident than ever in cloud security
Cloud-based solutions were a technology life raft for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic as employees took to the virtual office and companies scrambled to adjust to a distributed, remote reality. However, these rapid and substantial changes in the role of cloud technologies on the business came with an increased focus on security. The accelerated move […]
AWS – AWS Amplify launches new full-stack CI/CD capabilities
With this launch, AWS Amplify now supports conditional backend builds, automatic build-time aws-exports.js generation, and a simpler console workflow to re-use backends across multiple frontend branches. AWS Amplify’s continuous deployment service offers frontend developers the fastest way to build and deploy full-stack apps (both the frontend and backend) on every code commit. Read More for […]
AWS – AWS Amplify CLI adds support for storing environment variables and secrets accessed by AWS Lambda functions
Amplify CLI now supports storing environment variables and secrets to be used in AWS Lambda functions to help separate environment-specific configurations from business logic. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud that often include business logic powered by AWS Lambda functions. Customers use […]
GCP – Dashboards on Cloud Monitoring made easier with samples
Setting up Cloud Monitoring dashboards for your team can be time consuming because every team’s needs are different. Picking the right metrics, using the right visualizations to represent these metrics, deciding what metrics can go on the same chart, and determining the right pre-processing steps for metrics requires background and experience that may not yet […]
GCP – Kinguin helps shoppers find products faster with Recommendations AI
Over 2.14 billion people worldwide are expected to buy online this year, according to Statista. Online retail sales will account for 22% of all purchases by 2023. But in a competitive retail landscape, positive interactions can mean the difference between a sale and an abandoned shopping cart. One of the leading global marketplaces – Kinguin.net […]
GCP – Let Google Cloud’s predictive services autoscale your infrastructure
At Google Cloud, we believe you get most benefits from the cloud when you scale infrastructure based on changing demand. Compute Engine allows you to configure autoscaling to save costs during periods of low demand, and add capacity to support peak loads. When you use a managed instance group (MIG), you can have an autoscaler […]
GCP – What’s new with BigQuery ML: Unsupervised anomaly detection for time series and non-time series data
When it comes to anomaly detection, one of the key challenges that many organizations face is that it can be difficult to know how to define what an anomaly is. How do you define and anticipate unusual network intrusions, manufacturing defects, or insurance fraud? If you have labeled data with known anomalies, then you can […]
AWS – Amazon EBS now supports gp3, st1, and sc1 volume types in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones
AWS now supports three additional Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume types in the Los Angeles AWS Local Zones: General Purpose SSD (gp3), Throughput Optimized HDD (st1), and Cold HDD (sc1) volumes. With this expansion, you can now use gp3, st1, and sc1 volume types in addition to your existing gp2 and io1 volumes […]
GCP – Implementing Application-Consistent Data Protection for Compute Engine Workloads
Compute Engine provides reliable data protection infrastructure for your most demanding workloads. This infrastructure is the foundation for high-scale, mission critical services at Google and across industries including energy, retail, media, and finance. Today we are announcing the availability of application consistent Persistent Disk snapshot hooks for Linux, available for snapshots and machine images. New […]