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GCP – The best of Google Cloud Next ’20: OnAir’s Data Analytics Week for technical practitioners
Calling all data practitioners: It’s week 5 of Google Cloud Next ‘20: OnAir, and this week we’re covering all things data analytics. This covers the full spectrum of data workflows in Google Cloud, from data ingestion using Dataflow and Pub/Sub to BigQuery’s machine learning and geospatial capabilities and data visualization with Looker. And, of course, […]
GCP – Getting hands-on: Start building on Google Cloud for free
We’re pleased to share updates to our Google Cloud free programs so developers can get started even faster in solving real-world business challenges. With more and more developers building with the Google Cloud Platform every day, we’ve invested in a broad range of new hands-on resources, videos, tutorials, and comprehensive documentation to help you get […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune is now available in South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions
Amazon Neptune is now available in South America (São Paulo) and Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Regions. You can now create Neptune clusters using R5 and T3 instance types in these regions for your graph applications. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next-generation, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R5 nodes
Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) now supports next-generation, memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R5 nodes for high-performance applications. R5 nodes are based on the AWS Nitro System and feature enhanced networking based on the Elastic Network Adapter. Memory-optimized R5 nodes offer memory size flexibility from 16 to 768 GiB. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Solutions: Serverless Bot Framework adds support for securely integrating with third-party APIs
AWS has updated Serverless Bot Framework, an AWS Solutions Implementation that automatically sets up a chatbot application with sample interactions for the chatbot. The solution makes use of AWS services, such as AWS Lambda, to implement the machine learning logic of the chatbot and Amazon Polly to turn text responses into lifelike speech. Read More […]
AWS – AWS CodeDeploy now supports deployments to VPC endpoints
You can now use AWS CodeDeploy to deploy applications to your virtual private cloud (VPC) through VPC endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink. With this feature, you can use CodeDeploy to deploy your critical, internal applications without using an Internet gateway, public IP addresses, or a VPN connection. AWS PrivateLink provides secure connectivity between VPCs and […]
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Comprehend
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze text documents and identify insights such as sentiment, entities, and topics in text. Amazon Comprehend now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so customers can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Comprehend from within your VPC […]
AWS – Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment solution version 1.1, now with automated rollbacks and AWS CloudFormation drift detection
The Multi-Region Infrastructure Deployment solution make it easier to set up a multi-region architectures, supports controlled updates and maintain consistency of workloads. The solution automatically provisions and configures AWS CodePipeline to automate the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for validating and deploy AWS CloudFormation templates into a primary and secondary region. Read More for […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 instances featuring AMD EPYC processors are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C5a instances have expanded availability to include AWS Europe (Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (London), US West (N. California) and Canada (Central) Regions. In addition, 8xlarge and 16xlarge sizes of Amazon EC2 M5ad and R5ad instances are now available in the US East (N. […]
Azure – Windows 10 IoT Core Services are generally available
Moving forward with Windows CE using the Windows CE App Container on Windows 10 IoT Core Read More for the details.