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Azure – A new consolidated API version in Azure Monitor Logs is now available
A new API version for Azure Monitor Logs resource provider, 2020-03-01-preview, is now available. This API supports new functionality like customer-managed keys (CMK), bring your own storage (BYOS), along with other capabilities. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize
Amazon Personalize uses machine learning technology perfected from over 20 years of recommender systems development at Amazon.com. With Amazon Personalize you are can personalize recommendations for products, videos, music, ebooks, ads, marketing emails, and more, for your users, without any prior machine learning experience. Read More for the details.
GCP – Admin Essentials: Enhanced extension reporting with Chrome Browser’s Takeout API
Extensions offer enterprise users a great way to customize their Chrome Browser experience and help them get more work done in the cloud. But IT teams often want more visibility into extension usage to help them apply security policies that address the needs of the business. Chrome Browser Cloud Management provides a great way to […]
GCP – Supporting your compliance journey with Cloud Compliance Resource Center
Building and maintaining a compliance program can be complex and challenging. It requires implementing policies, operational and physical security controls, and various reporting mechanisms. We know our customers have to manage a wide variety of regulatory and industry-specific compliance requirements, and Google Cloud is committed to being a partner in your compliance journey. To help […]
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. […]