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GCP – Optimizing for long-term cost management in fully managed applications
A couple of weeks ago, we discussed a bunch of practical steps you can take to keep costs in check for applications running on Google Cloud’s fully managed serverless compute platforms, App Engine, Cloud Run and Cloud Functions. But beyond the immediate actions like setting max instances and budget alerts, there are several general optimizations […]
GCP – Last month today: May in Google Cloud
Last month brought new and continued challenges around the world, and new ways technology can help meet them. Top posts in May on the Google Cloud blog covered news on productivity, G Suite, and much more. Here’s what you missed. Understanding cloud infrastructure to serve more people faster This post goes in-depth on how our […]
GCP – Using Recommenders to keep your cloud running optimally
As a cloud project owner, you want your environment to run smoothly and efficiently. At Google Cloud, one of the ways we help you do that is through a family of tools we call Recommenders, which leverage analytics and machine learning to automatically detect issues and present you with optimizations that you can act on. […]
GCP – 5 ways to enhance your cloud storage security and data protection
Cloud storage is a foundational technology for many modern businesses, helping to store vast amounts of data that users can easily access and use to power modern data projects. At Google Cloud, we continually invest in protecting our customers’ data across all our products, including Cloud Storage. For every Google Cloud product, security is always […]
AWS – Amazon Augmented AI enables quality control via metadata for customers using a private workforce
Amazon Augmented AI (Amazon A2I) is an AWS service that makes it easy to build the workflows required for human review of ML predictions (such as predictions from Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Translate or Amazon Comprehend). Amazon A2I provides you the option to work with human reviewers or “workers” inside your own organization through […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances – GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs
Amazon EC2 has the cloud’s broadest and most capable portfolio of hardware-accelerated instances featuring GPUs, FPGAs, and our own custom ML inference chip, AWS Inferentia. G4dn instances offer the best price/performance for GPU based ML inference, training less-complex ML models, graphics applications others that need access to NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN and NVENC. […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift now delivers better cold query performance by significantly improving compilation times
Amazon Redshift now processes queries 2x faster when they need to be compiled. This improvement gives you better query performance when you create a new Redshift cluster, onboard a new workload on an existing cluster, or after a software update of an existing cluster. These query performance improvements are available at no extra charge to […]
Azure – Data Factory adds management hub, inline datasets, and support for CDM in data flows
Azure Data Factory adds new features for ADF pipelines, Synapse pipelines and data flow formats Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS adds support for AWS PrivateLink in three additional regions
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) has added support for AWS PrivateLink in three additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Europe (Milan), and Middle East (Bahrain). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL Compatibility Supports T3.large Instances
Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility now supports T3.large instances, in addition to the T3.medium and R5 class instances already available. Using T3.large instances with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is a cost-effective option for smaller workloads such as test, dev, and QA, while still giving you the option to use larger class instances for production deployments. Read […]