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AWS – AWS DeepRacer Student launches educator playbooks
Introducing AWS DeepRacer Student educator playbooks – the perfect tool for educators to seamlessly integrate foundational machine learning (ML) curriculum and labs into their classrooms for students 16 years and older. With educator playbooks, educators can easily upskill students in the basics of ML through the excitement of racing autonomous vehicles. Read More for the […]

AWS – Amazon Lex now supports Confirmation slot type
AWS announces the general availability of the Confirmation slot type for Amazon Lex that enables developers to effectively capture “Yes” and “No” responses from users. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application, using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, you can quickly and easily build sophisticated natural language conversational bots (“chatbots”), […]

AWS – AWS Client VPN now supports Israel (Tel Aviv) Region
Starting today, customers can use AWS Client VPN in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. You can now provide VPN access to your remote workforce to securely access resources in the Israel (Tel Aviv) Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon RDS Performance Insights enhanced console experience in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) Performance Insights now provides an enhanced console experience to view performance monitoring metrics for Amazon RDS databases in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) Regions. It consolidates information from Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon RDS Performance Insights to provide a comprehensive view of your database’s health. This removes the need […]

GCP – At Sanmina, ChromeOS checks every box for cost, flexibility, and easy maintenance
Editor’s note: Today’s post is by Manesh Patel, Senior Vice President and CIO for Sanmina, a global supply chain manager and manufacturer of high-reliability products in industries such as communications, medical, defense, and aerospace. Sanmina is using ChromeOS to manage critical operations processes and improve employee efficiency. Sanmina products are complex and often perform critical […]

Azure – Public Preview: Custom NFSv4.1 ID Domain in Azure NetApp Files
Non-LDAP volumes can now be configured to use a custom authentication ID Domain that matches your NFS environment. Read More for the details.

GCP – Unlock the power of geospatial analysis and visualization with BigQuery and Tableau
In today’s data-driven world, organizations are constantly seeking efficient and scalable solutions to store, analyze, and visualize vast amounts of geospatial data. This is where the combination of Google BigQuery and Tableau comes into play. BigQuery offers a robust and scalable platform for storing and analyzing geospatial data, while Tableau provides powerful visualization capabilities. In […]

GCP – How YouTube uses Bigtable to power one of the world’s largest streaming services
Cloud Bigtable is a popular and widely used key-value database available on Google Cloud. The service provides elastic and high scale, cost efficiency, excellent performance characteristics, and 99.999% availability SLA. This has led to massive adoption with customers trusting Bigtable to run a variety of their mission-critical workloads. Bigtable has been in continuous production use […]

GCP – tab32 elevates the healthcare and dental industry with Google Cloud
Investment in healthcare technology is advancing rapidly, particularly as providers leverage cloud-based software for patient care. McKinsey estimates healthcare companies can generate up to $170 billion in value by 2030 through cloud investing — creating new opportunities for growth through better access to data. As Google Cloud’s largest dental client, we’ve made it our mission […]
GCP – Manage FHIR Data from Android App with Open Health Stack and Google Cloud
Cloud enablement has the potential to generate a value of $100 billion to $170 billion in 2030 for healthcare companies, according to McKinsey. This means all healthcare companies, organizations and startups are already engaging in digital transformation by adopting cloud providers for enabling business. Also, the shift to mobile healthcare apps makes it easy for […]