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GCP – Giving the newly unified Google Cloud AI Platform a spin
The Google Cloud AI Platform team have been heads down the past few months building aunified view of the machine learning landscape . What is it? How good is it? What does it mean for data science jobs? What is there to unify? The idea is that there are a few key constructs in machine […]
AWS – Launching Amazon Lex streaming conversation APIs for improved virtual agent conversational experiences
In a conversation, we often pause to lookup information or interrupt a speaker with an answer before they finish asking a question. Today we are launching streaming conversation APIs, so you can easily configure your bot to handle such pauses and interruptions that might occur in a conversation. With streaming capabilities, bot builders can quickly […]
AWS – Launching Amazon Lex V2 console and APIs for an improved bot building experience
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application. Today, Amazon Lex launches an enhanced, V2 management console and APIs that make it easier to build, deploy and manage bots. With the Lex V2 console and revised APIs, you can expedite your process in building virtual agents, conversational IVR system, self-service chatbots, […]
AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 T4g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors along with a T4g free trial in Asia Pacific (Sydney, Singapore), Europe (London), North Americas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions
Starting today, the latest generation of burstable, general purpose Amazon EC2 T4g instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney), Europe (London), North Amreicas (Canada Central, San Francisco), and South Americas (Sao Paulo) regions. These instances are powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to 40% better price performance over T3 instances. […]
AWS – Amazon EBS direct APIs now enable you to create EBS snapshots in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region directly from any block storage
Starting today, customers can use Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) direct APIs to create EBS snapshots in the Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) Region directly from any block storage data, including on-premises data. With a set of API calls, customers can use EBS snapshots to store data in AWS, regardless of where it resides. This enables customers […]
Azure – Action Required: Upgrade IoT Hub IP filter before 1 February 2022
The upgraded IP filter protects the built-in endpoint and is more secure. Read More for the details.
GCP – Take the first step toward SRE with Cloud Operations Sandbox
At Google Cloud, we strive to bring Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) culture to our customers not only through training on organizational best practices, but also with the tools you need to run successful cloud services. Part and parcel of that is comprehensive observability tooling—logging, monitoring, tracing, profiling and debugging—which can help you troubleshoot production issues […]
GCP – New whitepaper: Designing and deploying a data security strategy with Google Cloud
William Gibson said it best: “The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed.” The cloud has arrived. Data security in the cloud is too often a novel problem for our customers. Well-worn paths to security are lacking. We often see customers struggling to adapt their data security posture to this new reality. There is […]
AWS – Announcing date and time functions and timezone support in AWS IoT SiteWise
We are excited to announce that AWS IoT SiteWise now supports date and time functions, and global time zones for use in metric and transform computations in the AWS IoT SiteWise asset model. You can now use date and time expressions to retrieve the current timestamp of equipment data in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) or […]
AWS – Amazon SQS now supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) now supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Amazon SQS already supports Amazon CloudWatch 1-minute metrics in all commercial regions. Read More for the details.