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AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 instances with dense local HDD storage now available in India (Mumbai) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS ParallelCluster now supports cluster management through Amazon API Gateway
Amazon ParallelCluster is a fully supported and maintained open source cluster management tool that makes it easier for scientists, researchers, and IT administrators to deploy and manage high performance computing (HPC) clusters on Amazon Web Services. HPC clusters are traditionally collections of tightly coupled compute, storage, and networking resources that enable customers to run large […]
GCP – Wrapping up the summer: A host of new stories and announcements from Data Analytics
August is the time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the last of the summer. Or, for those in the southern hemisphere, August is the month you start looking at your swimsuits and sunglasses with interest as the weather warms. But regardless of where you live, August also seems to be when Google produces a […]
AWS – Amazon Braket introduces verbatim compilation for quantum circuits
Amazon Braket, the AWS quantum computing service, now offers greater control over how quantum circuits are executed on quantum computers. With the new verbatim compilation feature, customers can now specify their circuits to run exactly as defined without any modification during the compilation process. Read More for the details.
GCP – Why higher ed needs to go all-in on digital: Research from BCG and Google
Why Higher Ed Needs to Go All-in on Digital In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of students within the 18-24-year-old demographic now expect hybrid learning environments–even once we are beyond the pandemic. And a vast number of adult learners are seeking options that accommodate their work and family lives now that it’s […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in AWS Regions in the Middle East (Bahrain), South Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan)
Starting today, Amazon EC2 I3en Instances are Now Available in Amazon Web Services regions in the Middle East (Bahrain), South Africa (Cape Town), and Europe (Milan). I3en instances offer up to 60 TB of low latency NVMe SSD instance storage and up to 50% lower cost per GB over I3 instances. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS Gateway Load Balancer achieves PCI DSS Compliance
AWS Gateway Load Balancer (GWLB) is now a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliant service. GWLB helps you deploy, scale, and manage third-party virtual network appliances such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, analytics, and traffic visibility systems. As an addition to the Elastic Load Balancer family, GWLB combines a transparent […]
AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Korean
We are delighted to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Korean. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text and natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities to recognize the intent of the text, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 announces increases for instance network bandwidth
Amazon EC2 now offers increased instance bandwidth from AWS region to traffic destined towards Internet Gateway, Direct Connect and between regions for the current generation of instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Amplify announces command hooks to execute custom scripts when running Amplify CLI commands
With today’s launch, customers can execute custom scripts before, during, and after Amplify CLI commands (“amplify push”, “amplify api gql-compile”, and more). This allows you to extend Amplify’s best-practice defaults to meet your organization’s specific security guidelines and operational requirements. AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend web and mobile developers […]