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Azure – General availability: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Audit Manager adds integration with Amazon EventBridge
Today, AWS Audit Manager announces integration with Amazon EventBridge. This integration means customers can now use AWS Audit Manager published events as part of their event-driven architecture. Amazon EventBridge is a service that provides real-time access to changes in data in AWS services, your own applications, and software as a service (SaaS) application without writing code.Within […]
GCP – Implementing MLOps tools and processes for supply chain science at Wayfair
In our previous blog post, we presented Wayfair’s MLOps vision and how we implemented it within our Data Science & Machine Learning organization using Vertex AI, supported by tooling that we built in-house and state-of-the-art MLOps processes. We shared our MLOps reference architecture that includes a shared Python library that we built to interact with […]
AWS – AWS Batch on Amazon ECS now supports AL2023
AWS Batch on Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now supports ECS-optimized Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) AMIs. AL2023 provides customers the latest innovations in Linux with long-term technical support until March 2028. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 I4i is available in UAE, Jakarta, and Hyderabad regions
Starting today, storage optimized Amazon EC2 I4i instances are now also available in the Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Jakarta, Hyderabad) Regions. Amazon EC2 I4i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) and deliver the highest local storage performance within Amazon EC2 using AWS Nitro NVMe SSDs.Amazon EC2 I4i instances […]
GCP – Optimizing your cloud costs is even easier with Committed Use Discount recommendations
Cloud FinOps is an iterative journey, and cost optimization is no different. Since establishing cost optimization isn’t a one-size-fits all quick fix, your optimization tools should adapt and evolve with your business. For iterative, progressive optimization, Google Cloud customers can leverage Committed Use Discounts (CUDs) to reduce anticipated costs with minimum spend or resource commitments […]
GCP – Automate your data warehouse migration to BigQuery with new data migration tool
As customers embark on their digital transformation journey, migrating on-premises data warehouses to the cloud accounts for a significant percentage of their overall transformation efforts. Today, to accelerate data warehouse migrations to BigQuery, we are announcing additional services in the form of a data migration tool that automates the migration of on-premises data warehouses to […]
GCP – No more waiting on hold: How Google Cloud Contact Center AI improves Sales Development operations
Google Cloud’s contact centers have been live for over a decade, during which we’ve seen demand accelerate significantly. Fast growth has led to a spike in calls, posing enormous challenges to our call center capabilities. At any given time, people from all over the world are asking Google Cloud for something, and they need to […]
GCP – Get your BigQuery production sample, all self-serving
We are proposing a solution for the problem of getting fresh PROD samples from BigQuery. The solution also provides safety measures to avoid accidental data exfiltration, and at the same time, it’s self-serving. You get a fresh sample every day. No more outdated schemas or stale samples. If this got your attention, chances are, you […]
GCP – Streaming Cloud Spanner changes with Apache Kafka at scale
Overview Cloud Spanner is a highly scalable database that combines unlimited scalability with relational semantics, strong consistency, schemas, and SQL providing 99.999% availability in one easy solution. Hence, it’s suitable for both relational and non-relational workloads. With Spanner change streams, users can track and stream out changes (inserts, updates, and deletes) from their Spanner database […]