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GCP – Google Cloud selected to provide cloud services to digitally transform the State of Israel
Google Cloud today announced that it has been selected by the Israeli government to provide public cloud services to help address the country’s challenges within the public sector, including in healthcare, transportation, and education. Following a thorough public tender process, Google Cloud was selected for this four-phase project known as “Project Nimbus.” The agreement will […]
GCP – What is Vertex AI? Developer advocates share more
With so much data at our fingertips, many organizations are utilizing machine learning to generate insightful predictions and improve their apps. But most teams have varying levels of machine learning expertise, ranging from novice all the way to experts. To accelerate AI innovation, you need a platform that can help you build expertise for those […]
GCP – What is Compute Engine? Use cases, security, pricing and more
Compute Engine is a customizable compute service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google’s infrastructure. You can create a Virtual Machine (VM) that fits your needs. Predefined machine types are pre-built and ready-to-go configurations of VMs with specific amounts of vCPU and memory to start running apps quickly. With Custom Machine Types, […]
GCP – Roostify simplifies mortgage processing with Lending DocAI
The home lending journey entails processing an immense number of documents daily from hundreds of thousands of borrowers. Currently, home lending document processing relies on some outdated digital models and a high dependency on manual labor, resulting in slow processing times and higher origination costs. Scaling a business that sorts through millions of documents daily, […]
AWS – Updated classroom course: Migrating to AWS
We are excited to announce the launch of our updated, three-day classroom training course, Migrating to AWS. This course helps you to build skills to migrate with confidence to the AWS Cloud to achieve business outcomes, innovate, and advance your professional future. Migrating to AWS is ideal for solution architects, software engineers, IT project managers, […]
AWS – Amazon Braket introduces quantum circuit noise simulator, DM1
Amazon Braket now offers a fully managed, density matrix simulator, DM1, to simulate quantum circuits with noise. DM1 helps you investigate the effects of realistic noise on your quantum algorithms to inform error mitigation strategies to get more accurate results from today’s quantum computing devices. With DM1, you can simulate circuits with up to 17 […]
AWS – AWS Data Exchange now supports custom payment schedules for private offers
Data subscribers on AWS Data Exchange can now pay for their data products in installments with custom payment schedules created by their data provider. Before this launch, subscribers paid the total price of their private offer at the start of the subscription. With the introduction of payment schedules, providers can now create private offers for […]
GCP – 5 tips to maximize the Kubernetes developer experience with Cloud Code
Starting a new project that deploys to Kubernetes can be a time consuming process. It’s easy to get caught up with configuring your infrastructure instead of actually writing your application’s business logic. Developer tools and practices that help streamline Kubernetes workflows, while keeping you focused on code, are key to driving your productivity. Here are […]
GCP – 3x Dataflow Throughput with Auto Sharding for BigQuery
Many of you rely on Dataflow to build and operate mission critical streaming analytics pipelines. A key goal for us, the Dataflow team, is to make the technology work for users rather than the other way around. Autotuning, as a fundamental value proposition Dataflow offers, is a key part of making that goal a reality […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer enhances EC2 instance type recommendations
AWS Compute Optimizer is a service that recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics. Today, Compute Optimizer is launching several updates to its EC2 instance type recommendations. Through these updates, Compute Optimizer has improved recommendation quality, doubled the number of […]