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AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for fully managed image updates
Starting today, you can use managed Amazon AppStream 2.0 image updates to keep your AppStream 2.0 images up-to-date with the latest Windows operating system updates, driver updates, and AppStream 2.0 agent software. Previously, AppStream 2.0 images were kept up to date by installing your applications on the latest base image each time a new image […]
AWS – AWS Firewall Manager Now Available in AWS GovCloud (US)
Starting today, AWS Firewall Manager is available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Read More for the details.
GCP – How to use PyTorch Lightning’s built-in TPU support
The Lightning framework is a great companion to PyTorch. The lightweight wrapper can help organize your PyTorch code into modules, and it provides useful functions for common tasks. For an overview of Lightning and how to use it on Google Cloud Platform, this blog post can get you started. One really nice feature of Lightning […]
GCP – A recipe for building a conversational AI team
Contact center virtual agents, such as chatbots or voice bots, leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help businesses connect with their customers and answer questions round the clock, regardless of request volume. AI tools will only become more critical for streamlining customer experience processes in the future. Are you convinced about the benefits […]
GCP – How to deploy Certificate Authority Service
Certificate Authority Service (CAS) is a highly available, scalable Google Cloud service that enables you to simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA). As it nears general availability, we want to provide guidance on how to deploy the service in real world scenarios. Today we’re releasing a whitepaper […]
GCP – Leaf Space: Enabling next-gen satellites on Google Cloud
There is a revolution happening in the space industry. Spurred on by low rocket launch costs, component miniaturization, and digitalization, more than 15,000 satellites will launch over the next decade1—more than have been launched throughout the prior six decades—studying the Earth’s weather and environment, helping people and things communicate in remote locations, monitoring critical infrastructure, […]
GCP – Creating a SQL Server instance integrated with Active Directory using Google Cloud SQL
SQL Server instances in Google Cloud SQL now integrate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a pre-GA feature that you can try out for yourself right now. This post describes the basic steps required to create a SQL Server instance with this new functionality. If you’re looking for complete details see the official documentation. Create […]
GCP – Recovering global wildlife populations using ML
Wildlife provides critical benefits to support nature and people. Unfortunately, wildlife is slowly but surely disappearing from our planet and we lack reliable and up-to-date information to understand and prevent this loss. By harnessing the power of technology and science, we can unite millions of photos from [motion sensored cameras] around the world and reveal […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces quality updates to its tables extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce a quality enhancement to our table recognition feature. Starting today, Textract more […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower introduces changes to preventive S3 guardrails and updates to S3 bucket encryption protocols
AWS Control Tower is releasing four new, less restrictive, mandatory preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails and changing the guidance of the four previous, more restrictive, preventative S3 Log Archive guardrails from mandatory to elective. With these guardrail changes you can now separate S3 Log Archive governance for resources created by AWS Control Tower from governance […]