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GCP – Join us: Google Workspace for the Public Sector Sector events
As the world adjusted to remote work and hybrid learning from kitchens, bedrooms and patios, the need to balance collaboration and productivity with well being became paramount. Google Workspace helps the public sector tap into tools to enable teamwork, supercharge workflows, and accelerate innovation. This June, learn about Google Workspace tips and tricks to help […]

GCP – How Zebra Technologies manages security & risk using Security Command Center
Zebra Technologies enables businesses around the world to gain a performance edge – our products, software, services, analytics and solutions are used principally in the manufacturing, retail, healthcare, transportation & logistics and public sectors. With more than 10,000 partners across 100 countries, our businesses and workflows operate across the interconnected world. Many of these workflows […]

AWS – Read multiple records simultaneously from Amazon SageMaker Feature Store using the new BatchGetRecord API
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store is a fully managed, purpose-built repository to store, update, retrieve, and share machine learning (ML) features. Customers can retrieve features from SageMaker Feature Store at low millisecond latencies for real-time use-cases using the GetRecord API. This API allows customers to retrieve features from a single feature group and access one record […]

GCP – All about cables: A guide to posts on our infrastructure under the sea
From data centers and cloud regions to subsea cables, Google is committed to connecting the world. Our investments in infrastructure aim to further improve our network—one of the world’s largest—which helps improve global connectivity, supporting users and Google Cloud customers. Our subsea cables play a starring role in this work, linking up cloud infrastructure that […]

GCP – The top cloud capabilities industry leaders want for sustained innovation
Cloud computing technologies help companies and governments to deliver essential services to their customers and citizens—never was this seen more than during the pandemic. From enabling the quick rollout of indispensable programs like unemployment assistance or access to COVID-19 testing online portals to leveraging on-demand infrastructure to meet enterprise compute needs, cloud empowers IT leaders […]

GCP – Why you need to explain machine learning models
Many companies today are actively using AI or have plans to incorporate it into their future strategies — 76% of enterprises are now prioritizing AI and ML over other initiatives in their IT budgets and the global AI industry is expected to reach over $260 billion by 2027. But as AI and advanced analytics become […]

AWS – Amazon Cognito now supports targeted sign out through refresh token revocation
By default, Amazon Cognito refresh tokens expire 30 days after a user signs in to a user pool. When you create an app, you can set the app’s refresh token expiration to any value between 60 minutes and 10 years. Amazon Cognito now enables you to revoke refresh tokens in real time so that those […]

AWS – AWS Removes NAT Gateway’s Dependence on Internet Gateway for Private Communications
You can now launch NAT Gateways in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Pipelines now supports callback capability
Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, the first purpose-built continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service for machine learning (ML), now supports a new callback step that allows customers to integrate any task or job outside Amazon SageMaker as a step in the model building pipeline. When a callback step is invoked, the current execution of a SageMaker […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway adds Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) Multicast support in 4 additional AWS regions
Starting today AWS Transit Gateway supports internet group management protocol (IGMP) multicast in the Africa (Cape Town), EU (Milan), Middle East (Bahrain), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) AWS Regions. Read More for the details.