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Azure – View Designer in Azure Monitor is retiring on 31 August 2023
Start using Azure Monitor Workbooks for rich visual reports Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Dedicated Hosts now support new Azure Virtual Machines series
You can now run Dsv4, Ddsv4, Esv4, and Edsv4 Azure VMs on Dedicated Hosts. The new Dedicated Hosts SKUs are based on the Intel Xeon Platinum 8272CL (Cascade Lake) processor, which offers improved performance compared to the previous generation. Read More for the details.

Azure – Visualize and Manage your AWS costs in Azure Cost Management
Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management is now Generally Available. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing AWS Data Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis
The AWS Streaming Data Solution for Amazon Kinesis is an AWS Solutions Implementation that provides an automated configuration of the AWS services necessary to easily capture, store, process, and deliver streaming data. This solution helps you solve for several real-time streaming use cases like capturing high volume application logs, analyzing clickstream data, continuously delivering to […]

AWS – AWS Storage Gateway increases performance by 4x for File Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway increases performance for reading data from Amazon S3 for File Gateway, providing you 4x faster access to data managed through the gateway. Read More for the details.

AWS – New digital training course: Amazon FSx for Lustre Primer
We’re pleased to announce a free new digital course from AWS Training and Certification: Amazon FSx for Lustre Primer. This course explains how to get started with Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed file system service for machine learning, high performance computing, and other workloads. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Solutions is launching a new Solution: Discovering Hot Topics Using Machine Learning that helps organizations discover and analyze trending topics among customers
On August 31st, AWS Solutions announced the launch of a new solution, Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning. This Solution helps brand-conscious customers understand the contextualization of the hottest topics being actively discussed. This solution ingests large-scale customer feedback and performs real-time analytics using machine learning to separate signal from the noise that goes beyond […]

GCP – Taking care of business with Responsible AI
In less than 10 years, some predict that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the #1 driver of global GDP growth1. This is a staggering prediction. Over this next decade, we will see incredible adoption and innovation; in fact, applications that aren’t AI-enabled may feel broken. Despite this excitement, I have seen first-hand that trust in […]

GCP – Conversational AI drives better customer experiences
Conversational AI is opening up a new world of possibilities in areas like customer experience, user engagement, and access to content. In Cloud AI, we’ve taken Google’s groundbreaking machine learning models in speech and natural language processing and applied them to the contact center space, radically improving the customer experience while also driving down operational […]
GCP – Key requirements for an MLOps foundation
AI-driven organizations are using data and machine learning to solve their hardest problems and are reaping the rewards. “Companies that fully absorb AI in their value-producing workflows by 2025 will dominate the 2030 world economy with +120% cash flow growth,”1 according to McKinsey Global Institute. But it’s not easy right now. Machine learning (ML) systems […]