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GCP – 10x performance improvement with the latest forecasting updates in Vertex AI
Today, we are thrilled to announce many improvements for forecasters on Vertex AI. We are launching TimeSeries Dense Encoder (TiDE), a new forecasting model architecture with massive performance improvements. The new model architecture is one of the many improvements enabled by a new forecasting backend that leverages Vertex AI Pipelines and provides more transparency, more […]
GCP – Five generative AI use cases for the financial services industry
Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize the way we live, work, bank, and invest. Its impact could be as significant as the advent of the internet or the mobile device. Indeed, 82% of organizations considering or currently using gen AI believe it will either significantly change or transform their industry (source: Google Cloud Gen […]
Azure – Azure Container Apps is now eligible for Azure savings plan for compute
You can now take advantage of Azure savings plan pricing for Azure Container Apps. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS Interactive Endpoints is now generally available
Today, we are excited to launch the general availability of Interactive Endpoints for Amazon EMR on EKS. With this launch, Amazon EMR on EKS customers will be able to run interactive workloads using an integrated development environment such as EMR Studio. For customers that require control on their execution environment, they will be able to […]
AWS – Amazon IVS introduces in-console broadcasting for low-latency streaming
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now offers in-console broadcasting for its low-latency streaming capability. Once you create at least one channel, you can initiate your first stream from the AWS Management Console. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Hibernate now supports more operating systems
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances (Amazon EC2 instances) now support Hibernation for the Microsoft Windows Server 2022, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Amazon Linux 2023 operating systems. Hibernation is an Amazon EC2 feature that helps lower costs and achieve faster startup times by enabling customers to pause and resume their running instances […]
AWS – AWS Glue Data Quality is now generally available in AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS announces general availability of AWS Glue Data Quality in the AWS GovCloud (US-East and US-West) Regions. Glue Data Quality automatically measures and monitors quality of data in data repositories and in AWS Glue ETL pipelines. AWS Glue is a serverless, scalable data integration and ETL (extract, transform, and load) service that makes it easier […]
AWS – AWS CodeDeploy now supports multiple load balancers for Amazon EC2 applications
AWS CodeDeploy now supports deploying to applications that use multiple AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ELB). Before, CodeDeploy could only support one application per Classic Load Balancers (CLB), Application Load Balancers (ALB) or Network Load Balancer (NLB). CodeDeploy now supports up to 10 load balancer target groups per application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Read […]
AWS – Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports OpenSearch version 2.9
You can now run OpenSearch version 2.9 in Amazon OpenSearch Service. With OpenSearch 2.9, we have made several improvements to Search, Observability, Security analytics, and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities in OpenSearch Service. Read More for the details.
AWS – Application Load Balancer and Network Load Balancer now support registering instances addressed by IPv6 as targets
Application Load Balancer (ALB) and Network Load Balancer (NLB) now support registering instances as targets when addressed by Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to simplify load balancer configuration. This launch enables you to directly register instances using IPv6 addresses as targets, removing the need to track individual IP addresses. The feature also enables the use […]