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AWS – AWS Marketplace launches Discovery API, making it easier to discover relevant third-party software and data products
AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog with 8000+ software listings and data products, has announced general availability of AWS Marketplace Discovery API. This launch enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and data providers to curate and surface a set of third-party software and data products on their web properties through integration with the AWS Marketplace catalog. […]
AWS – Amazon Braket now offers D-Wave’s Advantage quantum system for quantum annealing
Customers now can use D-Wave’s Advantage system on the Amazon Braket quantum computing service. The new Advantage quantum processing unit (QPU) has more than 5000 qubits with 15-way connectivity to enable researchers and developers to explore larger, more complex quantum optimization problems. Read More for the details.
Azure – General Availability: Application Insight in UK West
Application Insight, a part of Azure Monitor, is now generally available in the UK West region for customers to collect telemetry and analyze their service health in production environments. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure HDInsight –Autoscale for Interactive Query with HDInsight 4.0 is now generally available
Enable HDInsight Autoscale to drive higher utilization of your clusters. Read More for the details.
GCP – Google Cloud Migration Made Easy
At Google Cloud, we believe that effective integration of public cloud capabilities is fundamental to an enterprise’s digital transformation journey. A well-designed digital transformation strategy should do much more than keep you competitive… instead, it should position you to excel by untethering IT staff from low value, labor-intensive tasks, allowing them to focus on innovation […]
GCP – SAP on Google Cloud: 2 analyst studies reveal quantifiable business benefits
Cloud migration is top of mind for most companies with SAP applications. While the advantages of the cloud for SAP customers is generally understood, the move itself can be complicated and disruptive. So what actually are the business benefits and cost savings? How long will it take to recoup such an investment? Two recently published […]
GCP – PyTorch / XLA now generally available on Cloud TPUs
The PyTorch machine learning (ML) framework is popular in the ML community for its flexibility and ease-of-use, and we are excited to support it across Google Cloud. Today, we’re announcing that PyTorch / XLA support for Cloud TPUs is now generally available. This means PyTorch users can access large scale, low cost Cloud TPU hardware […]
GCP – Security-at-scale: 10 new security and management controls
With so many people working remotely, it’s imperative that the tools we use to stay productive are secure. Already this year we have worked to strengthen security for our customers and help make threat defense more effective. Today, we’re sharing new advancements that provide robust controls, enable automation, and simplify managing security-at-scale with both G […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront launches in two new countries – Mexico and New Zealand
Amazon CloudFront announces its first edge locations in two new countries: Mexico and New Zealand. In Mexico, our two new edge locations in Querétaro will provide viewers as much as a 30% reduction in p90 latency measures. These new edge locations are priced within CloudFront’s North America geographic region. In New Zealand, our two new […]
Azure – Azure Data Explorer extends functionality to support geospatial joins
The new geo_polygon_to_s2cells function enables the user to join vast amount of geospatial timeseries data with polygons on S2 cells. Read More for the details.