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AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces enables AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor
Amazon WorkSpaces adds support for AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor. AWS Resource Groups Tag Editor allows you to add, edit, or delete AWS tags from your WorkSpaces along with your other AWS resources. AWS Resource Groups makes it easier to manage and automate the tasks on large numbers of AWS resources at one time. AWS […]

AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator
Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Onica, a Rackspace Technology Company and an AWS IoT and AWS Machine Learning Competency Partner. The Serverless IoT Platform Accelerator solves common problems in implementation around data ingestion, storage, and monitoring of IoT devices. With this accelerator, customers can […]

AWS – Orchestrate and parameterize EMR Notebook Executions without graphical user interface access
EMR Notebooks is a service that provides a fully managed, Jupyter-based notebook to data scientists and engineers who write ad-hoc jobs and experiment with them. Now you can orchestrate EMR Notebooks in a non-interactive manner to run ETL workloads especially in production. Before this feature, executing notebooks required the Jupyter User Interface access through the […]

AWS – Amazon Corretto 15 Release Candidate (RC)
Amazon now supports the latest Java Feature Release JDK 15 by introducing Amazon Corretto 15 RC (Release Candidate). Corretto 15 is available on Linux, Windows and macOS. Download Corretto 15 RC directly here. Read More for the details.

GCP – mixi accelerates AI adoption with help from Google Cloud Advanced Solutions Lab
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been helping businesses become more efficient for years now, and their applications are growing seemingly by the day. Given this fast evolution, it’s understandable that many organizations aren’t quite sure how to best use AI and ML to help their business. This was the case at mixi, […]

Azure – Upcoming changes to Standard Public IPs and Standard Load Balancers
The zone related behavior in Standard Public IP address and Standard Load Balancer is being changed. Read More for the details.

GCP – TabNet on AI Platform: High-performance, Explainable Tabular Learning
Today, we’re making TabNet available as a built-in algorithm on Google Cloud AI Platform, creating an integrated tool chain that makes it easier to run training jobs on your data without writing any code. TabNet combines the best of two worlds: it is explainable (similar to simpler tree-based models) while benefiting from high performance (similar […]

GCP – Manage all your Kubernetes clusters with Anthos attached clusters
Today’s enterprises run applications in a variety of locations—in their data centers, in a cloud, in our cloud—and want the freedom to keep them there (or move them down the road)—in response to any number of factors. Those factors can include cost, uptime, compliance requirements, latency considerations, or proximity to other services, just to name […]

GCP – A developer’s take: Get the most out of Cloud AI Week at Next On Air
Welcome to week 8 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, where the focus is Cloud AI! This week our goal is to show you how to generate value with AI on our AI Platform. We’ve got a lineup of great content that covers everything from announcements and deep dives to customer stories and demos. As […]
GCP – Beginners guide to painless machine learning
Building AI-powered apps can be painful. I know. I’ve endured a lot of that pain because the payout of using this technology is often worth the suffering. The juice is worth the squeeze, as they say. Happily, over the past five years, developing with machine learning has gotten much easier thanks to user-friendly tooling. Nowadays […]