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AWS – AWS Chatbot now supports tagging of AWS Chatbot resources
AWS Chatbot now enables customers to tag AWS Chatbot resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that customers can assign to AWS resources such as AWS Chatbot channel configurations to easily organize, search, identify resources, and control access. Prior to today, customers could not tag AWS Chatbot resources. As a result, they could not use tag-based […]
AWS – Connect your Jupyter notebooks to Amazon EMR Serverless using Apache Livy endpoints
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR Serverless now supports endpoints for Apache Livy. Customers can now securely connect their Jupyter notebooks and manage Apache Spark workloads using Livy’s REST interface. Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it simple and cost effective for data engineers and analysts […]
AWS – Mistral Small foundation model now available in Amazon Bedrock
The Mistral Small foundation model from Mistral AI is now generally available in Amazon Bedrock. You can now access four high-performing models from Mistral AI in Amazon Bedrock including Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Mistral 7B, and Mixtral 8x7B, further expanding model choice. Mistral Small is a highly efficient large language model optimized for high-volume, low-latency […]
GCP – More FedRAMP High authorized services are now available in Assured Workloads
Google Cloud’s commitment to empower federal agencies with advanced technology reached a significant milestone this week with the addition of more than 100 new FedRAMP High authorized cloud services. Customers in the U.S. government and commercial organizations supplying the U.S. government can now use popular Google Cloud products authorized for FedRAMP. These products include several […]
GCP – From data chaos to data clarity: How Tamr’s Data Products leverage Google generative AI
Enterprises of all sizes recognize the value of having accurate, complete, and up-to-date views of their business and as a result have invested heavily in their data strategy and infrastructure. With the recent advances in generative AI, the urgency for high-quality data is only increasing. However, many organizations have found that as their data footprint […]
GCP – Create ecommerce experiences with commercetools and Google Cloud Application Integration
The world of digital commerce is rapidly evolving. To stay competitive, businesses need the ability to integrate their commerce systems with a wide array of applications and services. Furthermore, customers expect targeted and personalized experiences. Google’s AI and data solutions create an opportunity to deliver a personalized experience for customers within your ecommerce solutions. This […]
GCP – Understand the change in Cloud Monitoring service discovery and how to adapt
If you’ve opened the SLOs Overview in the Google Cloud console recently, you may have seen this notice: This notice announces a recent change in the way of defining services for Cloud Monitoring. Before the change, Cloud Monitoring automatically discovered services that were provisioned in AppEngine, Cloud Run or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). These services […]
GCP – Sharing details on a recent incident impacting one of our customers
A Google Cloud incident earlier this month impacted our customer, UniSuper, in Australia. While our first priority was to work with our customer to get them fully operational, soon after the incident started, we publicly acknowledged the incident in a joint statement with the customer. With our customer’s systems fully up and running, we have […]
AWS – Introducing the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Apache Spark Structured Streaming Connector for Amazon EMR
We are excited to announce the launch of the Amazon Kinesis Data Streams Connector for Spark Structured Streaming on Amazon EMR. The new connector makes it easy for you to build real-time streaming applications and pipelines that consume Amazon Kinesis Data Streams using Apache Spark Structured Streaming. Starting Amazon EMR 7.1, the connector comes pre-packaged […]
GCP – How the Nerds at Nerdery do great work with ChromeOS
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Jim Buck, Vice President of Technology Enablement, and Samuel Kidder, IT Systems Engineer, both of Nerdery. The Edina, Minnesota company is a digital product and data platform company with 20 years of experience, bringing expertise across design, engineering, and analytics to harness the full potential of your data, craft […]