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GCP – New SystemsResearch@Google team—shaping the future of hyperscalar systems
For over two decades, Google has helped lead the invention of modern cloud systems—defining, designing and deploying warehouse-scale computing as the foundation for reliable, performant, and secure global-scale information services delivered to billions of users around the world. This leadership involves significant innovation across a broad range of systems technologies, including distributed systems, storage systems, […]
AWS – SageMaker Studio enables interactive Spark based data processing from Studio Notebooks
Amazon SageMaker announces a new set of capabilities that will enable interactive Spark based data processing from SageMaker Studio Notebooks. 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, […]
GCP – 2021 Accelerate State of DevOps report addresses burnout, team performance
Over the past seven years, more than 32,000 professionals worldwide have taken part in the Accelerate State of DevOps reports, making it the largest and longest-running research of its kind. Year over year, the Accelerate State of DevOps reports provide data-driven industry insights that examine the capabilities and practices that drive software delivery as well […]
AWS – Optimize your Amazon Forecast model with the accuracy metric of your choice
We’re excited to announce that in Amazon Forecast, you can now select the accuracy metric of your choice to direct AutoML to optimize training a predictor for the selected accuracy metric. Additionally, we have added three more accuracy metrics to evaluate your predictor – average weighted quantile loss (Average wQL), mean absolute percentage error (MAPE), […]
GCP – Google Cloud research credits expand to nonprofit researchers
To fuel the breakthroughs of the future, today’s researchers need easy access to the most innovative cloud technologies. That’s why we are delighted to announce the latest expansion of Google Cloud research credits beyond its previous scope of government and academic research institutions to researchers at nonprofit institutions. This initiative is part of our ongoing […]
GCP – Deploying the Cloud Spanner Emulator locally
Welcome to the second part of our series on the Cloud Spanner Emulator. In the first part, we got an overview of Cloud Spanner and the emulator, as well as the various ways that it can be provisioned. Today, we will learn about running the Cloud Spanner emulator locally and containerizing + deploying the backend […]
Azure – Public preview: Management Group Scope for Azure Reservations
You can now purchase and change existing reservations to scope them to a management group. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elastic Beanstalk supports Dynamic Instance Type Selection
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports dynamic instance type selection for Elastic Beanstalk’s environments. This means Elastic Beanstalk will automatically fetch all compatible instance types for you to run a variety of applications. With dynamic instance type, you can choose the best suited instance type to optimize your application’s performance. For example, if you have machine […]
AWS – Amazon Detective supports S3 and DNS finding types, adds finding details
Amazon Detective expands security investigation support for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) and DNS-related findings on Amazon GuardDuty, providing full coverage of all detections from GuardDuty. Along with this, Detective now makes it even easier for a security analyst to investigate entities and behaviors using a revamped user experience. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface
Amazon Connect Chat now supports passing a customer display name and contact attributes through the chat user interface so you can personalize the chat customer experience. Contact attributes include relevant metadata associated with the contact such as customer ID, loyalty status, or even context about the webpage the customer was on when they started the chat. […]