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GCP – Can AI eliminate manual processing for insurance claims? Loadsure built a solution to find
Traditionally, insurance claims processing has been a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, often involving manual verification of documents and data entry. This can lead to delays in claim settlements and a frustrating experience for policyholders. Loadsure, a global Insurtech firm based in London, recognized the need to address these challenges and sought a solution that would […]

GCP – Flipping out: Modernizing a classic pinball machine with cloud connectivity
In today’s cloud-centric world, we often take for granted the ease with which we can integrate our applications with a vast array of powerful cloud services. However, there are still countless legacy systems and other constrained environments where integration is far from straightforward. We faced this challenge head-on when building Backlogged Pinball, a custom pinball […]

GCP – A practical guide to synthetic data generation with Gretel and BigQuery DataFrames
In our previous post, we explored how integrating Gretel with BigQuery DataFrames streamlines synthetic data generation while preserving data privacy. To recap, BigQuery DataFrames is a Python client for BigQuery, providing pandas-compatible APIs with computations pushed down to BigQuery. Gretel offers a comprehensive toolbox for synthetic data generation using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, including large […]

GCP – Mandatory MFA is coming to Google Cloud. Here’s what you need to know
At Google Cloud, we’re committed to providing the strongest security for our customers. As pioneers in bringing multi-factor authentication (MFA) to millions of Google users worldwide, we’ve seen firsthand how it strengthens security without sacrificing a smooth and convenient online experience. That’s why we will soon require MFA for all Google Cloud users who currently […]

GCP – Elia Group helps businesses and consumers reduce carbon emissions with Vertex AI
Editors note: Today we’re hearing from Oz Ural, Product Lead at Elia Group, about the Group’s innovative approach to measuring and forecasting the CO2 intensity of electricity across their grid. This is helping businesses make informed decisions about their energy consumption. The energy sector is facing huge, exciting challenges. The transition from fossil fuels to […]

AWS – Amazon Connect launches support for callbacks when using Chats and Tasks
Amazon Connect now enables you to request callbacks from Chats and Tasks in addition to voice calls. For example, if a customer reaches out after hours when no agent is available, they can request a callback by sending a chat message or completing a webform request (via Tasks). Callbacks allow end-customers to get a call […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances now support JupyterLab 4 notebooks
We’re excited to announce the availability of JupyterLab 4 on Amazon SageMaker Notebook Instances, providing you with a powerful and modern interactive development environment (IDE) for your data science and machine learning (ML) workflows. With this update, you can now leverage the latest features and improvements in JupyterLab 4, including faster performance and notebook windowing, […]

AWS – Amazon Bedrock announces support for cost allocation tags on inference profiles
Amazon Bedrock now enables customers to allocate and track on-demand foundation model usage. Customers can categorize their GenAI inference costs by department, team, or application using AWS cost allocation tags. You can leverage this feature by creating an application inference profile and tagging it. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice […]

AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces WSP enables desktop traffic over TCP/UDP port 443
Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon DCV-enabled desktop traffic now supports both TCP and UDP over Port 443. This feature will be used automatically, requiring no configuration changes. Customers using port 4195 can continue to do so. The WorkSpaces client application prioritizes UDP (QUIC) for optimal performance, but will fallback to TCP if UDP is blocked. The WorkSpaces […]
AWS – AWS announces CSV result format support for Amazon Redshift Data API
Amazon Redshift Data API enables you to access data efficiently from Amazon Redshift data warehouses by eliminating the need to manage database drivers, connections, network configurations, data buffering, and more. Data API now supports comma seperated values (CSV) result format which provides flexibility in how you access and process data, allowing you to choose between […]