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Azure – New region added to Azure HDInsight
Azure HDinsight is now generally available in UAE Central Read More for the details.

GCP – USC accelerates patient enrollment in clinical trials with ML
As research and life science organizations around the world continue to devote tremendous energy and funds to drug development, more efficient processes and cost-effective technology can expedite clinical trials and deliver therapies to patients faster. The University of Southern California (USC)Keck School of Medicine, along with theSouthern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (SC CTSI), […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Antares Cloud Management
Antares Cloud Management is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Claranet, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Antares Cloud Management provides an ecosystem of tools for day-to-day operation of containers in production. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers a discovery workshop, implementation of the […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Sydney) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports AWS CloudFormation
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports AWS CloudFormation, enabling customers to create and manage SiteWise Asset Models, Assets and Gateway resources using CloudFormation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Power BI dynamic M query parameter support
Power BI dynamic M query parameter allows users to explicitly inject filters at the designated place in the query and improve query performance by a few factors, especially when the report is built on top of a very big dataset, or using complex query logic. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon GuardDuty now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region
Amazon GuardDuty is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. You can now continuously monitor and detect security threats in this region to help protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and data stored in Amazon S3. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing new visualization features in AWS IoT SiteWise: Status Charts, Scatter Plot and Trend lines
AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service that makes it easy to collect, store, organize and monitor data from industrial equipment at scale, now supports three new visualization options in SiteWise Monitor: AWS IoT SiteWise Monitor now supports Status charts, a chart type that visualizes data that has a small number of well-defined states. With Status […]

AWS – Announcing new Amazon EC2 P4d instances deployed in EC2 UltraClusters for highest performance ML training and HPC applications in the cloud
We are excited to announce the availability of Amazon EC2 P4d instances, the next generation of GPU-based instances that provide the best performance for machine learning (ML) training and high performance computing (HPC) in the cloud for applications such as natural language processing, object detection and classification, seismic analysis, and genomics research. P4d instances are […]
AWS – EFA Now Supports NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA
We are excited to announce that Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) now supports NVIDIA GPUDirect Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). GPUDirect RDMA support on EFA will be available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) P4d instances– the next generation of GPU-based instances on AWS. P4d provides the highest performance for machine learning (ML) training and […]