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AWS – Amazon EventBridge now supports sharing events between event buses in the same account and Region
You can now configure EventBridge to send and receive events between event buses in the same AWS account and Region, to aggregate all your events from different event buses into a single event bus. You can also fan out events from a single event bus to other event buses, making it easier to decouple applications […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds automatic deployment support for the best trained model
Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, you have a convenient option to auto deploy the best trained model after running an experiment to create models. With auto deploy option enabled, SageMaker Autopilot will […]

Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop web client to end support for Internet Explorer 11 on September 30, 2021
Beginning September 30, 2021, the Windows Virtual Desktop web client will no longer support IE 11. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Solutions Implementations – Serverless Bot Framework adds new integrations for customers to expand the use of their Amazon Lex chatbots
AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that allows customers to automatically set up a chatbot application with sample interactions. The new functionalities help customers scale the use of their chatbots with integrations with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Application Cost profiler
Today, AWS announced AWS Application Cost Profiler, a managed service that enables you to view apportioned cost of AWS resources for software applications shared by multiple users (a.k.a. tenants). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Load Balancer Controller version 2.2 now available with support for NLB instance targeting
The AWS Load Balancer Controller provides a Kubernetes native way to configure and manage Elastic Load Balancers that route traffic to applications running in Kubernetes clusters. Elastic Load Balancing offers multiple load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to help make your applications fault tolerant. Read More for […]

AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – AWS Data Streaming Solution for Amazon MSK adds support for Apache Kafka versions 2.8.0 and 2.6.2
The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK, an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. Read More for the details.

GCP – Improving NCCL performance for cloud ML applications
The cloud is a great option for training deep neural networks because it offers the ability to scale on demand for specialized machine learning (ML) hardware, which provides increased agility. In addition, the cloud makes it easy to get started, and it provides pay-as-you-go usage models. Cloud also brings the latest GPU technologies to customers […]

GCP – Google Cloud Research Innovators drive scientific advances on the cloud
In the past, it was rare for an astrophysicist to use the same tools as a molecular biologist. But the growth of scientific data and the shift to cloud computing is driving a convergence of computational tools and methods. Techniques such as computer vision can be applied across data as different as satellite imagery and […]
GCP – Take control of your firewall rules with Firewall Insights
Corporate firewalls typically include a massive number of rules, which accumulate over time as new workloads are added. When rules stack up piecemeal like this, misconfigurations occur that, at best, create headaches for security administrators, and at worst, create vulnerabilities that lead to security breaches. To address this, we have introduced the Firewall Insightsmodule in […]