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GCP – Kickstart your organization’s ML application development flywheel with the Vertex Feature Store
We often hear from our customers that over 70% of the time spent by Data Scientists goes into wrangling data. More specifically, the time is spent in feature engineering — the transformation of raw data into high quality input signals for machine learning (ML) models — and in reliably deploying these ML features in production. […]
AWS – AWS IQ now supports chat response directly through email
You can now respond to AWS IQ messages from experts and buyers directly from your email, without logging into AWS IQ. If you are offline and receive responses from buyers or experts, you will receive unread responses via email. Reply to the email or log in to AWS IQ to continue the conversation. All responses […]
AWS – Introducing AWS Edit in the Cloud
AWS Edit in the Cloud is an AWS Solutions Implementation that helps the content creator to build a virtual editing environment on AWS. This allows your editors and creative professionals to work from anywhere in the world using only a laptop with a high-speed connection. Leveraging the AWS Cloud for editorial and content delivery, this solution […]
AWS – AWS RoboMaker WorldForge now supports adding doors to indoor residential simulation worlds
AWS RoboMaker WorldForge, a capability that makes it faster, simpler, and less expensive to create a multitude of virtual 3D worlds, now supports adding doors to indoor residential simulation worlds. With this new feature, robotics developers can add doors to connect rooms on the same floor of their indoor residential simulation world to test robot […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Cross-Region Automated Backups Regional Expansion
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Cross-Region Automated Backups feature is now available in the AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Stockholm), […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Data Sharing is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift Data Sharing, a secure and easy way to share live data across Redshift clusters, is now available in AWS GovCloud(US) regions. Ability to share data across Redshift clusters in the same AWS account is generally available and sharing across Redshift clusters that are in separate AWS accounts in the same region is available […]
GCP – Inside Chess.com’s smart move to Google Cloud
Editors note: In early 2020, Chess.com was experiencing steady growth and had projected that it would hit around 4 million daily active users in 10 years. Then the pandemic hit, and alongside the release of the Netflix smash hit, The Queen’s Gambit, they reached this active user number in six months. In this post, Saad […]
GCP – How to put your company on a path to successful cloud migration
Migrating your company’s applications to the cloud has many benefits, including improved customer satisfaction, reduction of technical debt, and the ability to lay the foundations of operational excellence. But there are also many challenges. Organizations often stop short because they don’t know how to get started, lacking prescriptive guidance and partnership from their cloud provider. […]
GCP – Make informed decisions with Google Trends data
A few weeks ago, we launched a new dataset into Google Cloud’s public dataset program: Google Trends. If you’re not familiar with our datasets program, we host a variety of datasets in BigQuery and Cloud Storage for you to access and integrate into your analytics. Google pays for the storage of these datasets and provides […]
AWS – AWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program
The new AWS Training Partner (ATP) program enables AWS customers to work with a single, trusted Partner who can offer, deliver, and/or resell official AWS-authored training. All AWS Training Partners are selected based on their quality and expertise in providing training. They must continually meet or exceed rigorous criteria to maintain their status in the […]