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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 […]
GCP – The BigQuery admin reference guide: Resource Hierarchy
Starting this week, we’re adding new content to the BigQuery Spotlight Youtube series. Throughout the summer we’ll be adding new videos and blog posts focused on helping new BigQuery architects and administrators master the fundamentals. You can find complimentary material for the topics discussed in the official BigQuery documentation, which is linked below. First up, […]
GCP – AutoML Tables is now generally available in BigQuery ML
Google’s cloud data warehouse, BigQuery, has enabled organizations around the world to accelerate their digital transformation and empower their data analysts to unlock actionable insights from their data. Using BigQuery ML, data analysts are able to create sophisticated machine learning models with just SQL and uncover predictive insights from their data much faster. Today we […]
GCP – Five Tips for Prioritizing Investments in Government Technology
Five tips for prioritizing investments in government technology Editor’s note:Today’s post highlights five takeaways from our session at the first ever Google Cloud Public Sector Summit. To watch the full session, check out All the Right Moves: Prioritizing Investments in Technology. Now more than ever, government agencies need to invest in digital services to fulfill […]
Azure – Azure NetApp Files | Regional Capacity Quota
We’re changing the regional capacity quota for Azure NetApp files at no additional cost to you. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports encryption in transit of data between your applications and DAX clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster
You now can further enhance the security of your applications by encrypting data in transit between your applications and your Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) clusters, and between the nodes within a DAX cluster. To use this new feature, enable encryption in transit when creating a DAX cluster and use the latest version of any of […]