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GCP – Diving into your documents with DocAI
We recently announced the GA of the Document AI Platform, Google’s solution for automating and validating documents to streamline document workflows. Important business data is not always readily available in computer-readable formats. This is what we consider dark formats such as pdfs, handwritten forms and images. The platform is a console for document processing where […]
GCP – Retire your tech debt: Move vSphere 5.5+ to Google Cloud VMware Engine
It can happen so easily. You get a little behind on your payments. Then you start falling farther and farther behind until it becomes almost impossible to dig yourself out of debt. Tech debt, that is. IT incurs a lot of tech debt when it comes to keeping up infrastructure; most IT departments are already […]
GCP – Databricks on Google Cloud is now generally available
Google Cloud and Databricks announced a new partnership to deliver Databricks at global scale on Google Cloud. Enterprises can deploy or migrate Databricks Lakehouse to Google Cloud to combine the benefits of an open data cloud platform with greater analytics flexibility, unified infrastructure management, and optimized performance. And we are excited to announce that this […]
AWS – AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now makes it easier for you to manage permissions for AWS services accessing your resources
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports policy conditions to help manage permissions for AWS services that access your resources. Many AWS services require access to your internal resources to perform tasks, and they often use their own service identity called a service principal to achieve this. Using the new service principal conditions, it is […]
GCP – Delivering smiles and sparking innovation at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc.
Editor’s note: In honor of Mother’s Day, we look at how 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. migrated to Google Cloud as part of its digital transformation to quickly deploy seamless and convenient customer experiences across multiple brands on Mother’s Day and every day. As a leading provider of gifts designed to help customers express, connect, and celebrate, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon FinSpace, a fully managed service to store, prepare, and analyze data for the financial services industry (FSI)
Amazon FinSpace is a new fully managed data management and analytics service that makes it easy to store, catalog, and prepare financial industry data at scale, reducing the time it takes for financial services industry (FSI) customers to find and access all types of financial data for analysis from months to minutes. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups
Starting today Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now support Amazon RDS Encrypted Cross-Region Automated Backups. This feature extends the existing RDS backup functionality, giving you the ability to set up automatic replication of system snapshots and transaction logs from a primary AWS Region to a secondary AWS Region. These […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
Starting today, AWS Transit Gateway Network Manager is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB local now supports the AWS SDK for Java 2.x
You now can use the AWS SDK for Java 2.x with DynamoDB local, the downloadable version of Amazon DynamoDB. With DynamoDB local, you can develop and test applications by using a version of DynamoDB running in your local development environment without incurring any additional costs. DynamoDB local does not require an internet connection, and it works […]
AWS – Easily clean up unused resources in Amazon Forecast using hierarchical deletion
We are excited to announce that you can now hierarchically delete resources in Amazon Forecast at a parent level without having to locate the child resources. You can stay focused on building value adding forecasting systems and not worry about trying to manage individual resources that are created in your workflow. Amazon Forecast uses machine […]