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Azure – Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker announces a price reduction by up to 14% on instances and SageMaker Savings Plans with up to 64% cost saving
Today we are announcing Amazon SageMaker Savings Plans, a new flexible pricing model that allows you to save up to 64% on Amazon SageMaker ML instances in exchange for making a commitment to a consistent amount of eligible usage (e.g. $10/hour) for a 1- or 3-year term. We are also pleased to share that effective […]
GCP – How Lumiata democratizes AI in healthcare with Google Cloud
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post comes from AI for healthcare platform Lumiata. Here’s the story of how they use Google Cloud to power their platform—performing data prepping, model building, and deployment to tackle inherent challenges in healthcare organizations. If ever there was a year for healthcare innovation—2020 was it. At Lumiata, we’ve been on a […]
GCP – Four consecutive years of 100% renewable energy—and what’s next
We’re proud to announce that in 2020 Google again matched 100 percent of its global electricity use with purchases of renewable energy. We were the first company of our size to achieve this milestone back in 2017, and we’ve repeated the accomplishment in every year since. All told, we’ve signed agreements to buy power from […]
Azure – Azure Purview resource set pattern rules available in public preview
Azure Purview is announcing the public preview of resource set pattern rules. A resource set is a single object in the data catalog that represents a large number of assets in storage. Resource set pattern rules allow you to customize or override how Azure Purview detects which assets are grouped as resource sets and how they are displayed within the catalog. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types
Amazon EMR Release 5.33 now supports 10 new instance types – C6gd, M6gd, R6gd, C6gn,C5a, C5ad, d3, d3en, m5zn and R5b. These instances are supported in all commercial regions where the instances are available. Amazon EMR 5.33 ships with Apache Hudi 0.7.0, ApacheFlink 1.12.1, PrestoDB 0.245 and Zeppelin 0.9.0. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract achieves FedRAMP compliance
Amazon Textract has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Additionally, Amazon Textract is now authorized in the US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), and US West (Oregon) Regions under FedRAMP Moderate. Read […]
GCP – What no-code automation looks like with AppSheet
As developers, we talk about automation in the context of technology as often as your friends might talk about Bitcoin — and for good reason: automation has spanned the farthest corners of cloud computing, from infrastructure as code, container orchestration, and DevOps to machine learning and even billing management. It’s making life easier for infrastructure […]
AWS – You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane API activity
You now can use AWS CloudTrail to log Amazon DynamoDB Streams data-plane APIs—GetRecords and GetShardIterator—to monitor and investigate item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables. Previously, you could use CloudTrail to log DynamoDB Streams control-plane activity (and not data-plane activity) on your DynamoDB tables. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Application Gateway URL Rewrite
Application Gateway now supports hosting friendly URLs and routing based on query string values. Read More for the details.