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AWS – Amazon Kendra adds Google Drive connector
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers can automatically index and search content that is contained in Google Drive repositories using Amazon Kendra’s new built-in Google Drive connector. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor now supports new capabilities to maintain model quality in production
Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor continuously monitors machine learning models for concept drift (i.e. changes in data distribution and characteristics over time) and alerts you if there are any deviations so you can take remedial action. Starting today, you can also use Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor to detect drift in model quality, bias, and feature importance. […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Forecast Weather Index – automatically include local weather to increase your forecasting model accuracy
We’re excited to announce the Amazon Forecast Weather Index, which can increase your forecasting accuracy, by automatically including the latest local weather information to your demand forecasts with one click and at no extra cost. Weather conditions influence consumer demand patterns, product merchandizing decisions, staffing requirements and energy consumption needs; however, acquiring, cleaning, and effectively using […]
AWS – AWS announces AWS Audit Manager
AWS Audit Manager is a new service that helps you continuously audit your AWS usage to simplify how you assess risk and compliance with regulations and industry standards. Audit Manager automates evidence collection to make it easier to assess whether your policies, procedures, and activities, also known as controls, are operating effectively. When it is […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon SageMaker JumpStart – Easily and quickly bring machine learning applications to market
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you easily and quickly bring machine learning (ML) applications to market using pre-built solutions for common use cases and open source models from popular model zoos. Read More for the details.
GCP – Admin Essentials: Ready, set, Chrome—Improvements and polices to make Chrome more performant
From its inception, Chrome’s core principles have been the four S’s: speed, security, stability, and simplicity. Those principles guide us in the way we build Chrome. The first S—speed—is what has driven us to make Chrome one of the most performant browsers out there, and we are constantly finding ways to improve. Enterprise environments often […]
GCP – Just in time for TechEd, our latest innovations for SAP customers
With SAP TechEd kicking off this week, we thought it would be a good time to update you on the ways that Google Cloud continues to enhance our offerings for SAP customers. We’ve released new capabilities for both running SAP applications on Google Cloud as well as ways to get more out of your SAP […]
GCP – Unsiloing data to work toward solving food waste and food insecurity
While working on the Project Delta team, an early stage moonshot at X that was exploring new technologies to solve the pervasive problems of food waste and food insecurity, we worked closely with Kroger and Feeding America to transform and analyze datasets using Google Cloud. In this blog, we’ll talk about the technical effort of […]
GCP – Google Cloud named a leader in latest Forrester Research IaaS Platform Native Security Wave
The adoption of cloud services has created a generational opportunity to meaningfully improve information security and reduce risk. As an organization moves applications and data to the cloud, they can take advantage of native security capabilities in their cloud platform. Done well, use of these engineered-in platform capabilities can simplify security to the extent that […]
GCP – Silos are for food, not data — tackling food waste with technology
While 40% of food in America goes to waste, 35 million Americans (likely even more during this pandemic) are food-insecure—meaning they are without food or not sure where future meals will come from. In addition, food waste has been called the “world’s dumbest environmental problem.” As the pandemic continues, the food system is in the […]