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GCP – Model training as a CI/CD system: Part II
In the first part of the blog post, we discussed how to monitor code changes and submit a TensorFlow Extended (TFX) pipeline to Vertex AI for execution. We concluded that post with a few questions: What if we wanted to maintain a schedule (say hourly — usually dependent on the use-case) to trigger the pipeline […]
GCP – Google Cloud Next Rollup for Data Analytics
October 23rd (this past Saturday!) was my 4th Googlevarsery and we are wrapping an incredible Google Next 2021! When I started in 2017, we had a dream of making BigQuery Intelligent Data Warehouse that would power every organization’s data driven digital transformation. This year at Next, It was amazing to see Google Cloud’s CEO, Thomas […]
Azure – Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights support for Availability Zones is now generally available in West US 2
Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights are now support Availability Zones capability in West US 2. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Backup now supports Archive Tier through Azure Portal
Azure Backup support to move backups for SQL and SAP HANA databases running in Azure VMs into the Archive tier, via Azure portal and Azure CLI, is also generally available. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Advisor recommendations for Azure Data Explorer Clusters
Azure Advisor analyzes the Azure Data Explorer cluster configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized and actionable recommendations to help you optimize your cluster. Advisor is designed to help you save you time on the cluster optimization. The recommendations include suggested actions you can take right away, postpone, or dismiss. Read More for the details.
GCP – How geospatial insights can help meet business goals
Organizations that collect geospatial data can use that information to understand their operations, help make better business decisions, and power innovation. Traditionally, organizations have required deep GIS expertise and tooling in order to deliver geospatial insights. In this post, we outline some ways that geospatial data can be used in various business applications. Assessing environmental […]
GCP – Google Cloud’s data ingestion principles
Businesses around the globe are realizing the benefits of replacing legacy data silos with cloud-based enterprise data warehouses, including easier collaboration across business units and access to insights within their data that were previously unseen. However, bringing data from numerous disparate data sources into a single data warehouse requires you to develop pipelines that ingest […]
GCP – Faster distributed GPU training with Reduction Server on Vertex AI
Neural networks are computationally intensive and often take hours or days to train. Data parallelism is a method to scale the training speed with the number of workers (e.g. GPUs). At each step, the training data is split in mini-batches to be distributed across workers, and each worker computes its own set of gradient updates, […]
AWS – AWS Audit Manager custom framework sharing is now generally available
AWS Audit Manager now offers custom framework sharing so you have a secure and easy way to share custom frameworks across AWS accounts and regions. This enables instant access of your custom frameworks across multiple AWS accounts, without the need to manually copy or move underlying custom controls. Custom framework sharing provides quick access to […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches AWS CloudFormation support for users, user hierarchy groups, and hours of operation
Amazon Connect now supports AWS CloudFormation on three new APIs: Users, User Hierarchies, and Hours of Operation. You can now use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy these Amazon Connect resources—along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure—in a secure, efficient, and repeatable way. Additionally, you can use these templates to maintain consistency across Amazon Connect […]
