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GCP – Top 25 Google Search terms, now in BigQuery
Today we’re announcing preview availability of a new public dataset for Google Trends. For the first time we’re bringing Google-owned Search data into Google Cloud Datasets for convenient analysis in BigQuery, or through your favorite business intelligence tools. For over a decade, Google Trends has provided a sample of Google Search data. Continuing to lead […]
GCP – Mrs. T’s Pierogies: Improved forecasting and DR with SAP on Google Cloud
Pierogies might just be the ultimate comfort food. But when Mrs. T’s Pierogies — the leading manufacturer of frozen pierogies in the US — learned it needed to transition its existing on-premises SAP ECC to S/4HANA, the company sought a little comfort for itself. Founded in 1952, Mrs. T’s Pierogies now produces more than 650 […]
Azure – Introducing the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech
Ingestion Client in conjunction with Azure Speech allows customers to transcribe audio files without any development effort. Whether you have few or millions of file Azure will transcribe those securely and quickly. Read More for the details.
GCP – Running older SQL Server (< 2017) databases on Cloud SQL for SQL Server
If you have databases running on SQL Server instances with versions older than 2017, you may be wondering if you can run those databases on Cloud SQL and how. Let’s break the SQL Server footprint down into three distinct parts: Edition refers to the licensing level of SQL server – of which Cloud SQL currently […]
GCP – 5 things you didn’t know about the new Tau VMs
Google Cloud Compute VMs are built on the same global infrastructure that runs Google’s search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services. And over the years, we’ve continued to launch more and more Compute family and VMs types to serve your workload needs at the price point you’re looking for. When you take a bird’s eye […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports copying DB cluster resources tags to DB snapshots
You can use Amazon Neptune resources tags to add metadata and apply access policies to your Amazon Neptune resources. Now, you can allow resource tags set on your Neptune clusters to be automatically copied to any automated or manual database snapshots that are created from your clusters. Tags can be used with AWS Identity and […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels adds support for KMS encryption of custom model training data
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels supports the ability to use an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) key, to encrypt the image data delivered to the Rekognition Custom Labels service to train your custom machine learning model. By default, Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels encrypts the image data at rest using server-side encryption. With this release, if you […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances – New features, improved performance and lower prices
Amazon EC2 Inf1 instances and AWS Neuron now support YOLOv5 and ResNext deep learning models as well as the latest open-source Hugging Face Transformers. We have also optimized the Neuron compiler to enhance performance and you can now achieve an out-of-the box 12X higher throughput than comparable GPU-based instances for pre-trained BERT base models. These […]
AWS – CloudWatch adds 14 new Metric math functions
Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math now supports 14 new functions including RUNNING_SUM, TIME_SERIES, and DATAPOINT_COUNT. Two new FILL variants, two logarithmic functions, two functions for calculating the difference between each datapoint, and five time functions are also now supported. With CloudWatch Metric Math, you can aggregate and transform metrics to create custom visualizations of your health […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches API to configure quick connects programmatically
Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically create and manage quick connects. Quick connects are a way for you to create preconfigured destinations for common transfers and make them available for agents to use. Using this API, you can programmatically configure thousands of quick connects to agents, queues, and phone numbers. Additionally, you can […]