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GCP – 6 best practices for effective Cloud NAT monitoring
For anyone building distributed applications, Cloud Network Address Translation (NAT) is a powerful tool: with it, Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) workloads can access internet resources in a scalable and secure manner, without exposing the workloads running on them to outside access using external IPs. Cloud NAT features a proxy-less design, implementing NAT […]
GCP – Location intelligence: the new frontier for data-driven success
At Google, we’ve spent more than 15 years mapping the world and exploring the ways it can help businesses of all kinds do more, from tailoring customer experiences to optimizing processes across the enterprise. Its applications are endless, spanning marketing, workforce management, logistics, and even fraud detection. That’s why we’re excited to share Unlocking Value […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle
Today, we are announcing the Amazon CloudFront Security Savings Bundle, a flexible self-service pricing plan that helps you save up to 30% on your CloudFront bill in exchange for a monthly spend commitment for a 1-year term. The savings bundle also includes free AWS WAF (Web Application Firewall) usage up to 10% of your committed […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn Bare Metal Instances
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M5n, M5dn, R5n, and R5dn bare metal instances that can utilize up to 100 Gbps of network bandwidth, and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) for HPC/ML workloads. are generally available. Amazon EC2 bare metal instances provide your applications with direct access to the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor and memory resources of the underlying […]
AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – AWS Data Streaming Solution for Amazon MSK adds a template for you to read events and store data to Amazon S3 from a streaming application
The AWS Solutions team recently updated AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon MSK, an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This update adds a template that accelerates development of streaming data workloads by reducing the need for you to […]
Azure – Append blob support for Azure Data Lake Storage is now in limited public preview
Applications can now create append blobs in addition to block blobs in Azure Data Lake Storage accounts and append to them using Append Block operations. Applications that need to add information to existing files efficiently and continuously can leverage append blobs. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure IoT Central new and updated features—January 2021
January updates include jobs improvements, new API features, new data export features, and documentation enhancements. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Graviton2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul, Hong Kong) regions, and M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances now available in EU (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Singapore, Sydney) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul), and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) regions. Additionally, Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd and R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage are now available in EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Solutions Implementation – AWS MLOps Framework adds a model monitoring pipeline for customers to take remedial action when there are deviations in model quality
AWS Solutions has updated the AWS MLOps Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that now provides a pipeline for model monitoring. In addition to the bring-your-own-model pipeline, the solution offers the ability to provision multiple model monitor pipelines to periodically monitor the quality of deployed ML models on Amazon SageMaker endpoints. This added functionality is key […]
GCP – Search and browse Google Cloud code samples
We’ve added new features to our documentation to provide quick and easy ways to search and browse all code samples that are available for Google Cloud. When getting started with a new technology, are you the type of developer who immediately looks for code samples? If so, you’ll be happy to check out these new […]