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GCP – TELUS and Google Cloud partner to create a more sustainable future
Environmental sustainability is a key priority for TELUS, a world-leading communications technology company. It continues to rank in the top 100 most sustainably managed companies in the world, and seeks to make a healthier planet for all by leveraging its global-leading technology, compassion to drive social change and reduce our collective carbon footprint through innovative […]
GCP – How Einride scaled with serverless and re-architected the freight industry
Industry after industry being transformed by software. It started with industries such as music, film and finance, whose assets lent themselves to being easily digitized. Fast forward to today, and we see a push to transform industries that have more physical hardware and require more human interaction, for example healthcare, agriculture and freight. It’s harder […]
GCP – A search recipe for grocers: Ingredients for success in eCommerce
Today, more than half of grocery sales are influenced by digital, but only 4% of those sales are actually completed online, according to Deloitte research1. That leaves a tremendous growth opportunity for grocers to gain their share of digital shoppers. A one-stop-shop experience is preferred by consumers as it benefits both their time and wallet […]
GCP – Register for Google Cloud Next
Google Cloud Next ‘22 kicks off on October 11 at 9AM PDT with a 24-hour “follow the sun” global digital broadcast featuring live keynotes from five locations across the globe — New York, Sunnyvale, Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Munich. You’ll hear from the people shaping the future of computing and have the opportunity to learn from […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights now supports displaying top 25 SQL queries
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Performance Insights’ Top SQL tab shows the SQL queries that are contributing the most to database load. Starting today, we are increasing the top SQL queries displayed in Amazon RDS Performance Insights from 10 to 25. Amazon RDS Performance Insights is a database performance tuning and monitoring feature of RDS […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Sphere OS version 22.09 expected on September 22
Participate in the 22.09 retail evaluation now to ensure full compatibility. The OS evaluation period provides 14 days for backward compatibility testing. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon WorkSpaces is available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region
Amazon WorkSpaces is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) Region. This expansion into a new AWS Region allows you to provision WorkSpaces closer to your users, providing a more responsive experience. Additionally, you can quickly add or remove WorkSpaces to meet changing demand, without the cost and complexity of on-premises Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). […]
AWS – Monitor Amazon EMR Serverless applications in near real-time with CloudWatch metrics
Amazon EMR Serverless is a serverless option in Amazon EMR that makes it easy for data analysts and engineers to run open-source big data analytics frameworks without configuring, managing, and scaling clusters or servers. Read More for the details.
AWS – SageMaker Studio now supports Glue Interactive Sessions
Amazon SageMaker Studio is a fully integrated development environment (IDE) for machine learning (ML) that enables data scientists and developers to perform every step of the machine learning workflow, from preparing data to building, training, tuning, and deploying models. SageMaker Studio comes with fast start, collaborative notebooks. You can quickly launch notebooks in Studio, easily dial […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Europe (Stockholm) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Europe (Stockholm) region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. The local SSD storage provided on these instances will […]