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GCP – Is your data protected? Backup and DR service integrates with logging and monitoring tools
Backup and DR data is a valuable business asset, and ensuring that it’s safe and accessible is essential. In particular, you want to be able to monitor your backups to ensure that the data is indeed protected and that you can quickly recover it in the event of a disaster, user error, or failed upgrade. […]
GCP – Tune Spark properties to optimize Dataproc Serverless jobs
Data scientists and engineers need large-scale compute resources but often need more know-how or the engineering team to create and manage the underlying infrastructure. Dataproc Serverless, the industry’s first autoscaling serverless product for Spark, simplifies their experience by not having to think about infrastructure for their work. Dataproc Serverless uses Spark properties to determine the […]
GCP – Effective alerting in Google Cloud
Engineering organizations need to be able to quickly and easily identify and resolve technical issues, but this need often takes a backseat compared to other priorities. With so many things to track, it can be challenging to know which ones need alerts. It is possible to set up too many alerts, create too much noise, […]
Azure – Build AI-assisted calling workflows with Azure AI Speech and Azure Communication Services
Add speech capabilities into Azure Communication Services call automation workflows with Azure AI Speech. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is now available in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Customers can now create Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer supports rightsizing for G4dn and P3 instances
AWS Compute Optimizer now supports 11 additional Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types. Newly supported instance types include accelerated computing instance families (G4dn, P3). The newly launched recommendations help customers discover opportunities to optimize their Machine Learning (ML), High-performance computing (HPC), and graphically intensive workloads. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize simplifies implementation by extending column limits
Amazon Personalize now makes it easier to implement machine learning powered personalization by reducing the need for experimentation with increased dataset column limits. Amazon Personalize uses datasets provided by customers to train custom personalization models on their behalf. Some customers experiment with multiple iterations of their datasets in order to optimize model performance while fitting within […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker geospatial capabilities now support Notebook with GPU-based Instances
You can now use the geospatial image within SageMaker Studio’s notebook with GPU-based instances. Support for GPU-based instances with the geospatial image makes it easier for data scientists and machine learning (ML) engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS SAM CLI announces local testing and debugging support on Terraform projects
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Command Line Interface (CLI) announces the launch of SAM CLI local testing and debugging on HashiCorp Terraform. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, test, package, and deploy serverless applications. Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you build, change, […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 High Memory instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 9TiB of memory (u-9tb1.112xlarge) are now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options. Read More for the details.