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GCP – Scale model training in minutes with RAPIDS + Dask and NVIDIA GPUs on AI Platform
Python has solidified itself as one of the top languages for data scientists looking to prep, process, and analyze data for analytics and machine learning (ML) related use cases. However, base Python libraries are not designed for large-scale transformations, creating major obstacles for data scientists seeking to deploy their code in production environments. Increasingly, ML […]

AWS – Introducing our new Solutions Training for Partners: Sales Best Practices courses
AWS Training and Certification is excited to launch the Solutions Training for Partners: Sales Best Practices digital training series. These 30-minute fundamental courses are designed to introduce AWS Partners to cloud concepts and relevant AWS solutions for services that customers leverage most to innovate and transform their business. Read More for the details.

GCP – Partnering with Intel to accelerate cloud-native 5G
Communications service providers are increasingly adopting cloud-native technologies to harness the potential of 5G not only as a connectivity solution, but also as a business services platform for delivering applications to the network edge. We announced our telecommunications industry strategy last year to help Communication Service Providers address the growing demands of enterprise customers to […]

AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region
Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) region. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance with the ability to […]

AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm) regions
Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), and Europe (Stockholm) regions. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. The T4g instances provide a baseline level of CPU performance […]

GCP – At your service! With schedule-based autoscaling, VMs are at the ready
We believe that managing even the most demanding VM-based application in Google Cloud should be easy. For instance, in a Compute Engine environment, managed instance groups (MIGs) offer autoscaling that lets you automatically change an instance group’s capacity based on current load, so you can rightsize your environment—and your costs. Autoscaling adds more virtual machines […]

Azure – Earlier versions of Analysis Services client libraries will retire on 30 June 2021
Update your Analytics Services client libraries to version 15.1.37.40 or higher by 30 June 2021. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Database for PostgreSQL ending support for PostgreSQL version 9.6 on 11 November 2021
Community support for Azure Database PostgreSQL version 9.6 ends on 11 November 2021 Read More for the details.

Azure – The E64i_v3 & E64is_v3 Azure VMs will not be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
E64i_v3 & E64is_v3 Azure VMs will no longer be isolated. Read More for the details.
Azure – The G5 and GS5 Azure VMs will no longer be hardware-isolated on 28 February 2022
G5 and GS5 Azure Virtual Machines will no longer be isolated. Read More for the details.