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GCP – AI Simplified: Managing ML data sets with Vertex AI
At Google I/O this year, we introduced Vertex AI to bring together all our ML offerings into a single environment that lets you build and manage the lifecycle of ML projects. In a previous post, we gave you an overview of Vertex AI, sharing how it supports your entire ML workflow—from data management all the […]

GCP – One click retail: How Marxent uses Google Cloud to power self-service 3D shopping apps
As ecommerce for home goods exploded in popularity during COVID, furniture and DIY retailers looked to find new ways to grow online transaction sizes to in-store levels. Shopping for furniture and home improvement projects has always been challenging online. Furniture, kitchen cabinets, fixtures, and appliances become a part of daily life, are challenging to return, […]

GCP – How Lowe’s meets customer demand with Google SRE practices
Editor’s note: Today we hear from the Lowe’s SRE team. They share about how they have been able to increase the number of releases they can support by adopting Google’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) framework and leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. At Lowe’s, we’ve made significant progress in our multiyear technology transformation. To modernize […]

GCP – Four steps to scale your quantitative investment research
Investment management is a heavily data-driven industry—portfolio managers and investment researchers require a large number of data sources to guide them in shaping their investment strategies. New cloud capabilities and technologies enable investment managers to process data faster than ever before and iterate on ideas quickly to fuel innovation in the signal generation process and […]

GCP – Google Cloud {Code_Love_Hack} Winners!
When we launched GKE Autopilot in February, we wanted to provide Google Cloud developers with the opportunity to be some of the first to give it a spin and experience the hands-off nodeless Kubernetes experience for themselves. We decided to host a hackathon all surrounded by the theme of spreading love – love of code, love of […]

Azure – General availability: ExpressRoute Global Reach Pricing Reduction
ExpressRoute Global Reach allows you to link ExpressRoute circuits together to make a private network between your on-premises networks. The data transfer price for this offering is now 50% lower. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Key Rotation and Expiration Policies for Azure Storage
Access Key Expiration and Policy support for Azure Storage Accounts Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EMR Studio is now available in 13 regions
Starting today, Amazon EMR Studio is available in US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Canada (Central), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, and Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, and Tokyo) regions. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon CloudWatch releases a C# client library for Embedded Metric Format
CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format enables you to ingest complex high-cardinality application data in the form of logs and easily generate actionable metrics from them. It has traditionally been hard to generate actionable custom metrics from your ephemeral resources such as Lambda functions, and containers. By sending your logs in the Embedded Metric Format, you can […]
Azure – Azure Maps Creator is now generally available
Azure Maps Creator provides an end-to-end solution for private indoor maps. Read More for the details.