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GCP – Albertsons Companies helps customers find COVID-19 vaccines with Business Messages
Since the release of initial COVID-19 vaccines in late 2020, online searches for vaccines have surged. While vaccines are becoming more broadly available, many people still have questions about eligibility criteria, as well as where and how vaccine appointments can be made. Meanwhile, for some vaccine administrators, there is no centralized process or call center […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now allows you to execute commands in a container running on Amazon EC2 or AWS Fargate
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) introduces Amazon ECS Exec – a simple, secure, and auditable way for customers to execute commands in a container running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances or AWS Fargate. ECS Exec gives you interactive shell or single command access to a running container making it easier to debug […]
AWS – AWS Config Adds 3 New Config Rules for Amazon Secrets Manager
AWS Config now supports three new AWS Config managed rules to help you verify that your secrets in AWS Secrets Manager are configured in accordance with your organization’s security and compliance requirements. AWS Config records and evaluates configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config managed rules are predefined rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate […]
AWS – AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS Cost Anomaly Detection now supports provisioning cost monitors and alert subscriptions via AWS CloudFormation templates. You can now set up Cost Anomaly Detection via JSON or YAML commands, enabling quick, consistent, and scalable configurations across AWS accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), North America (Montreal), and South America (Sao Paulo) AWS Regions
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the following three additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Seoul) North America (Montreal) South America (Sao Paulo) Read More for the details.
AWS – Bundle Management APIs now generally available for Amazon WorkSpaces
Amazon WorkSpaces bundle management APIs are now available for customers to perform WorkSpaces bundle operations via command-line interface (CLI). The new set of APIs support creation, deletion, and image association operations for WorkSpaces bundles. These APIs are intended for use by WorkSpaces administrators who want to automate WorkSpaces management workflows. Read More for the details.
GCP – Reduce Deprecation Stress: Understand SDK Dependencies in Google Maps Platform
To improve Google Maps Platform for developers and end users, sometimes we need to deprecate existing functionality. For example, last year when many establishments closed temporarily to limit the spread of COVID-19, we introduced the business_status field to describe a place’s status in a non-binary way and deprecated the permanently_closed field because it cannot accurately […]
Azure – Azure expands PCI DSS certification
You can now leverage Azure’s Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification across all live Azure regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – Event-triggered detection of data drift in ML workflows
With ML workflows, it is often insufficient to train and deploy a given model just once. Even if the model has desired accuracy initially, this can change if the data used for making prediction requests becomes—perhaps over time—sufficiently different from the data used to originally train the model. When new data becomes available, which could […]
GCP – New research on how COVID-19 changed the nature of IT
The impact of COVID-19 was felt everywhere, and the world of IT—and its budgets—was certainly not spared. Yet, along with the general slowdown in IT investment were widespread reports about how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation. To learn more about how organizations are shifting their technology priorities, Google commissioned a study by IDG to […]