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AWS – AWS Global Accelerator launches custom routing
AWS Global Accelerator announces custom routing accelerator, a new type of accelerator that allows you to use your own application logic to route user traffic to a specific Amazon EC2 destination, while still leveraging the benefits of Global Accelerator. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Redshift announces support for native JSON and semi-structured data processing (preview)
Amazon Redshift, a fully-managed cloud data warehouse, announces preview of native support for JSON and semi-structured data. It is based on the new data type ‘SUPER’ that allows you to store the semi-structured data in Redshift tables. Redshift also adds support for the PartiQL query language to seamlessly query and process the semi-structured data. This […]

AWS – Amazon Redshift now includes Amazon RDS for MySQL and Amazon Aurora MySQL databases as new data sources for federated querying (Preview)
We announced general availability of Amazon Redshift federated query with support for Amazon RDS PostgreSQL and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL earlier this year. With this feature, many customers have been able to combine live data from operational databases with the data in Amazon Redshift data warehouse and the data in Amazon S3 data lake environment in […]

AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Profiler adds Memory Profiling and Heap Summary
Amazon CodeGuru Profiler now profiles your application’s memory, giving you a consolidated view of the heap. The heap summary shows all objects allocated on the heap during a given time frame. For each object (e.g. String, int, char[], custom types, etc.) you can see a summed-up size and number of objects. These metrics are also […]

AWS – Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane
Amazon Braket now supports PennyLane, an open source software framework for hybrid quantum computing. Pennylane provides interfaces to common machine learning libraries, including PyTorch and TensorFlow, so you can train quantum circuits in the same way you would train a neural network. The integration with Amazon Braket allows you to test and fine-tune algorithms faster […]

AWS – Amazon Braket tensor network simulator supports 50-qubit quantum circuits
Amazon Braket provides a fully managed and high-performance tensor network simulator (TN1). This tensor-network-based circuit simulator can support quantum computing simulations with up to 50 qubits, and is particularly powerful for sparse circuits, circuits with local gates, and other circuits with inherent structure. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon ECR announces cross region replication of images
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) now supports cross region replication of images in private repositories, enabling developers to easily copy container images across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a single push to a source repository. Storing images in-region to your infrastructure helps applications start up faster as image download time is reduced due […]

GCP – Integrating Dialogflow with Google Chat
In today’s world, where online collaborative work is crucial and maintaining productivity is key, chatbots have an important role to play. Why chatbots? Workers frequently need to incorporate information from external sources in their communications, and chatbots can help them find that information all in one place. In this post we’ll walk you through a […]

GCP – Google Cloud Public Sector Summit Day One in Review
Bright and early this morning, we were thrilled to welcome thousands of attendees from government organizations, education institutions, and nonprofits around the globe to our first-ever digital Google Cloud Public Sector Summit. Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, and Mike Daniels, Vice President of Global Public Sector at Google Cloud, opened the Summit with a […]
AWS – Detect bias in ML models and explain model behavior with Amazon SageMaker Clarify
Today we are introducing Amazon SageMaker Clarify to help machine learning developers achieve greater visibility into their training data and models so they can identify and limit bias and explain predictions. Read More for the details.