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AWS – Announcing Amazon Lightsail Containers, an easy way to run containerized applications on the cloud
Amazon Lightsail now provides you with the ability to run containerized workloads on the cloud with little-to-no prior cloud experience. With this native service, called Lightsail Containers, you can now deploy containerized applications to the cloud using the Docker images directly from your desktop or from the ones in public registries like DockerHub – with […]
GCP – It’s not DNS: Ensuring high availability in a hybrid cloud environment
Our customers have multi-faceted requirements around DNS forwarding, especially if they have multiple VPCs that connect to multiple on-prem locations. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, we recommend that customers utilize a hub-and-spoke model, which helps get around reverse routing challenges due to the usage of the Google DNS proxy range. But in […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports custom endpoints to access your workload
You can now create custom endpoints for Amazon Neptune to access your workload. Custom endpoints allow you to distribute your workload across a designated set of instances within a Neptune cluster. Read More for the details.
GCP – Introducing the Anthos Developer Sandbox—free with a Google account
Your colleagues in IT operations talk about needing a platform that can run a wide variety of apps: new or existing, running on Linux or Windows, long-running or serverless, capable of rapidly scaling up and down according to demand. Anthos is Google Cloud’s answer to these requirements for hybrid and multi-cloud. With Anthos, you not […]
GCP – Devoted Health employees don’t miss a beat serving seniors from home with Chrome OS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by David Gallant, Head of Enterprise Support and Technology for Devoted Health, a Medicare Advantage health plan on a mission to improve healthcare for seniors. Devoted Health is using Chrome OS and Pixelbooks—in combination with workplace tools like Google Workspace, Slack, Talkdesk, and systems built internally—to help members navigate the […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs for Snapshots now supports FIPS 140-2 compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs now offer Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS) compliant endpoints in the US Commercial and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. and Canadian government standard that specifies the security requirements for cryptographic modules that protect sensitive information. Read More for the details.
GCP – BigQuery Explained: Data Manipulation (DML)
In the previous posts of BigQuery Explained, we reviewed how to ingest data into BigQuery and query the datasets. In this blog post, we will show you how to run data manipulation statements in BigQuery to add, modify and delete data stored in BigQuery. Let’s get started! Data Manipulation in BigQuery BigQuery has supported Data […]
Azure – Custom Translator V2 upgrade (full trainability) is generally available
Custom Translator completed the full V2 platform upgrade to deliver an even bigger translation quality gain than before. Customers can now build custom models with all document types (Training, Testing, Tuning, Phrase Dictionary, and Sentence Dictionary) using full text documents, like Office documents, PDFs, HTML, and plain text. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex adds language support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Today, we are launching support for French, Spanish, Italian and Canadian French. With these new languages, you can build and expand your conversational experiences to better understand and engage your customer base. Amazon Lex can be applied to a […]
AWS – Updated digital course: AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce the launch of the updated AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials digital course. If you’re new to the cloud—whether you’re in a technical or nontechnical role—this course will help you understand the fundamental concepts of the AWS Cloud. As a result, you can build your skills and confidence while […]