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GCP – Shifting gears: How mixi expanded from mobile games to bicycle racing with TIPSTAR
How do you reinvent entertainment for a completely new audience? For Japanese social network giant mixi, the challenge was to take the successes they’ve had with mobile games like Monster Strike, now with more than over 54 million worldwide users, and apply it to broadcasting Keirin bicycle races. As Koki Kimura, president of mixi, explains […]
GCP – A Google Cloud block storage options cheat sheet
“Where do virtual machines store data so they can access it when they restart?”—We need storage that is persistent in nature. That’s where Persistent Disks come in. Persistent Disk is a high performance block storage service that uses solid state drive (SSD) or hard disk drive (HDD) disks. These disks store data in blocks and […]
GCP – How Google Cloud is enabling vaccine equity
As multiple COVID-19 vaccines are distributed worldwide, government leaders are now acutely focused on vaccinating as many people as quickly as possible. But to effectively serve entire populations–including underserved and elderly communities–government organizations must provide constituents with a range of sign up options to ensure that no one is left behind. Google Cloud is already […]
Azure – Azure Automation support for System Assigned Managed Identities is now in public preview
Use managed identities now to authenticate runbooks to any Azure service that supports Azure AD authentication. Read More for the details.
AWS – Now Use Tags to Track and Allocate Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks Costs
Amazon SageMaker Studio is the first fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML). SageMaker Studio provides a single, web-based visual interface where you can perform all ML development steps required to prepare data, as well as build, train, and deploy models. With a single click, data scientists and ML developers can quickly spin […]
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway achieves FedRAMP Moderate compliance
AWS Storage Gateway has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate authorization, approved by the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB), for the AWS US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) Regions. You can use AWS Storage Gateway to store and manage your critical data in AWS with […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Integrates with AWS Lambda
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL can now make calls to AWS Lambda functions. AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers, and without worrying about scalability. Read More for the details.
Azure – Apache Spark 3.0 is now available for public preview in HDInsight 4.0.
Apache Spark 3.0 public preview in HDInsight 4.0 is a major update to Apache Spark and brings significant improvements including better performance and better support for ANSI SQL. Read More for the details.
AWS – New digital course: Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS
AWS Training and Certification has launched Getting Started with Data Analytics on AWS, a new self-paced digital course available on Coursera and edX. In this one-week course, you’ll learn how to go from raw data to meaningful insights using AWS services such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight. This course is intended for […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches audio device settings for the custom Contact Control Panel (CCP)
Amazon Connect now allows agents to select which speaker, microphone, and ringer device to use in the Contact Control Panel (CCP). For example, agents can change the ringer device from their headset to their speaker if they need to step away from their desk. Then, when a call comes in, the agent will hear the […]