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GCP – Eating our own dogfood: Building an AI-driven business at Google Cloud Consulting
At Google, we have a strong culture of dogfooding products — using and testing them internally to improve the experience for our own teams and customers. This practice is at the heart of Project LEAP, our internal effort within Google Cloud Consulting (GCC) to leverage Vertex AI in every part of our business. This week […]
GCP – Your scannable list of our top migration announcements from Next ‘24
Regardless of what you’re looking to migrate or modernize, Google Cloud is committed to helping you on that journey, and we’re excited to announce a number of new updates for our portfolio of migration products and programs. What’s new with the Rapid Migration Program (RaMP)? We understand that customers’ journeys to the cloud are driven […]
GCP – Day 2 at Next ’24 recap: building AI agents
Hello from Las Vegas, where day two of Google Cloud Next ‘24 just wrapped up. What happened in Vegas today? We got hands-on with Gemini and AI agents. At the annual developer keynote, Google Cloud Chief Evangelist Richard Seroter told the audience how Gemini in Google Cloud can not only meet you where you are […]
AWS – AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy is now generally available
Today, AWS announces the general availability of AWS Clean Rooms Differential Privacy, a new capability that helps you protect the privacy of your users with mathematically-backed and intuitive controls in just a few steps. As a fully managed capability, no prior differential privacy experience is needed to help you protect the privacy of your users. […]
GCP – Investing $1 billion in digital connectivity to Japan
Today, we’re announcing a $1 billion investment in digital connectivity to Japan, which includes the expansion of the Pacific Connect initiative and delivers two new subsea cables, Proa and Taihei. In collaboration with several partners — including KDDI, ARTERIA, Citadel Pacific, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) — these cables will create […]
AWS – AWS Neuron introduces speculative decoding
Today, AWS announces the release of Neuron 2.18, introducing stable support (out of beta) for PyTorch 2.1 and adding support for speculative decoding with Llama-2-70B sample in Transformers NeuronX library. Read More for the details.
Azure – New RBAC roles for Azure savings plan for compute now available
Today, we are please to announce the availability of 3 new role-based access control (RBAC) roles for Azure savings plan. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Red Hat OpenShift April 2024 updates
New features include support for ARO in Azure Terraform provider, ability to bring your own NSG, new GPU instance types for Day 2 operations, and more! Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is available in four additional regions
Amazon Verified Permissions is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and (US-West) Regions, AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) and Canada West (Calgary). The service provides fine-grained authorization for the applications that you build, allowing you to implement permissions as policies rather than application code. Your application calls Verified Permissions to authorize access to APIs and […]
Azure – Public Preview: Mirroring Azure Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric
Get near-real time analytics on your Azure Cosmos DB data in Microsoft Fabric with zero-ETL. Read More for the details.