Welcome to above the clouds
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices now supports high performance NFS data transfer
AWS Snowball Edge (SBE) Storage Optimized devices now support high performance Network File System (NFS) data transfer operations. With this launch, customers can now transfer up to 80TBs of data onto Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices through both file and object interfaces. The file interface exposes a Network File System (NFS) mount point for each […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK meetings now support live transcription with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, developers can overlay subtitles, build a transcript, or perform real-time content analysis with live audio transcription powered by Amazon Transcribe or Amazon Transcribe Medical. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: GitHub Codespaces and github.dev
GitHub Codespaces is now available to all GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers. Everyone can also leverage github.dev to browse GitHub repositories and make lightweight code changes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Fuel your custom models with Vertex AI
In May we announced Vertex AI, our new unified AI platform which provides options for everything from using pre-trained models to building your models with a variety of frameworks. In this post we’ll do a deep dive on training and deploying a custom model on Vertex AI. There are many different tools provided in Vertex […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now allows you to easily identify latest releases that have the applications you need
You can now easily list Amazon EMR releases available in an Amazon region and describe the applications available with any Amazon EMR release. Previously, if you were looking to launch Amazon EMR clusters in new regions, or with the latest version of an application, you had to read the release notes and manually update your cluster launch […]
Azure – Automatic Azure VM extension upgrade capabilities now generally available
Automatic extension upgrade provides safe and automatic upgrades for extensions on Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine Scale Sets, keeping your environments more secure and up to date. Read More for the details.
GCP – Streaming VR and AR content from Google Cloud with NVIDIA CloudXR
The Opportunity for Streamed AR/VR Content What if you could get a high quality AR/VR experience without a dedicated physical computer—or even without a physical tether? In the past, interacting with VR required a dedicated, high-end workstation and, depending on the headset, wall-mounted sensors and a dedicated physical space. Complex tasks in VR can push […]
GCP – IT leaders are choosing a sustainable future
The global-wide interruptions of the coronavirus pandemic provided the opportunity for businesses to take a closer look at how we work, learn, live, and consume. With work stoppages and quarantine orders in place, carbon emissions and pollution levels saw significant reductions, highlighting how business and environmental sustainability are linked. As the world returns to work, […]
GCP – Businesses realize the full value of visual data using Plainsight Vision AI on Google Cloud
Data-savvy businesses increasingly rely on images and videos for critical functions, and yet are challenged by the sheer mass of information—more than 3.2 billion images and 720,000 hours of video are created daily. This explosion in visual data has paved the way for the growth of computer vision, a form of artificial intelligence (AI) that […]
