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GCP – The top AI courses for a summer of learning with Google Cloud
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GCP – From gRPC to RESTful APIs: Expose your gRPC services to the REST of the world
When designing a modern microservice architecture, performance is obviously key. Even outside of high-frequency trading and near-real time systems, extra milliseconds in inter-service communication matter a lot for the overall user experience. In this environment, gRPC has emerged as a high-performance communication protocol and is widely adopted for its low latency, efficient serialization and strongly […]
AWS – AWS HealthOmics now supports DSL and Nextflow version detection
We are excited to announce that AWS HealthOmics now supports the ability to specify Domain Specific Language (DSL) and Nextflow version when creating private workflows. AWS HealthOmics is a fully managed service that helps healthcare and life science organizations build at-scale to store, query, and analyze genomic, transcriptomic, and other omics data to improve health […]
AWS – Amazon DataZone launches domain units and authorization policies
Today, Amazon DataZone announced a set of new data governance capabilities called domain units and authorization policies that enable customers to create business unit/team level organization and manage policies per their business needs. With the addition of domain units, users can organize, create, search, and find data assets and projects associated with business units or […]
AWS – Announcing a larger Windows instance bundle for Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail now offers a larger Windows instance bundle with 16 vCPUs and 64 GB memory. The new Windows instance bundle is available with Windows Server operating system (OS) and SQL Server blueprints, for both IPv6-only and dual-stack networking types. You can use the new bundle to run new Windows workloads, or to scale up […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF Graphs
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Neptune Analytics now supports openCypher queries over RDF graphs! This enhancement aims to bridge the gap between RDF graphs and labeled property graphs (LPGs), allowing organizations to harness the best of both worlds without being constrained by the limitations of traditional technology choices. When building graph-based applications, […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class support on Amazon EMR
Amazon EMR (Elastic MapReduce) is the industry-leading cloud big data solution for data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning, designed to run open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hive and Trino efficiently on AWS. We are excited to announce that the Amazon S3 Express One Zone storage class is now supported on all EMR deployment models […]
GCP – Boosting Google Cloud HPC performance with optimized Intel MPI
High performance computing (HPC) is central to fueling innovation across industries. Through simulation, HPC accelerates product design cycles, increases product safety, delivers timely weather predictions, enables training of AI foundation models, and unlocks scientific discoveries across disciplines to name but a few examples. HPC tackles these computationally demanding problems by employing large numbers of computing […]
GCP – Deliver sovereign cloud solutions with the new Google Distributed Cloud initiative
Digital sovereignty remains top-of-mind for organizations across the public, finance, and manufacturing sectors. As they adopt cloud technologies, they face the challenge of balancing innovation while adhering to stringent regulatory requirements. To achieve this, they seek cloud solutions that not only offer the flexibility and scalability they need, but also prioritize compliance with local and […]
AWS – AWS Batch adds support for cancelling queued jobs
AWS Batch now supports cancellation of jobs while they are waiting in the queue. This allows you to cancel jobs before they are executed. Also, if you are using the fair-share scheduling feature, you can cancel jobs with an outdated priority to make room for jobs submitted by other users to the same queue to […]