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GCP – How Wipro models cloud transformation excellence with SAP on Google Cloud
Wipro drives rapid growth and business transformation with SAP on Google Cloud Wipro Limited, a global technology services and consulting firm with more than 250,000 employees, is committed to continually transforming its business to best serve client needs today and in the future. The company launched key cloud migration initiatives as a part of its […]
GCP – State agencies deliver needed services with help from Speridian and Google Cloud
Agencies at all levels of government are looking to technology in order to scale their efforts, respond quickly and provide critical services to the community. When $10B was allocated to the Homeowner Assistance Fund (HAF) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) local state agencies needed to act quickly to assist […]
Azure – General Availability: Azure Sphere version 23.05
The Azure Sphere version 23.05 release includes various new features and developer resources. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Elemental MediaConvert releases bandwidth reduction filter for HEVC and AVC
Today, AWS announces the general availability of bandwidth reduction filtering for the AVC and HEVC encoders in AWS Elemental MediaConvert. The bandwidth reduction filter is a perceptual input preprocessing filter which removes temporal noise from video sources while minimizing impact on visual quality. The filter uses human vision system models to reduce imperceptible signals and […]
AWS – AWS Lambda supports starting from timestamp for Kafka event sources
AWS Lambda now supports starting from a specific timestamp when using Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) or Self-Managed Kafka as an event source. Previously, Kafka event source mappings could only have starting positions of trim horizon or latest. Now with starting from a timestamp, you can start processing messages at a precise point […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M6gd instances are now available in Europe (Paris) region
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M6gd instances are available in Europe (Paris) region. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift improves the experience for encrypting the data warehouse
Amazon Redshift offers comprehensive encryption capabilities to protect your data at rest. Now, Amazon Redshift further enhances the experience of encrypting the warehouse with RA3 node types by reducing the overall encryption time and improving the availability of the warehouse during the encryption process. Read More for the details.
AWS – Transform data into ML features using SageMaker Feature Store feature processing
Amazon SageMaker Feature Store now supports feature processing, a new capability that enables you to transform data into ML features. With this launch, you simply provide a data source, and the transformation function you want to perform on the data and SageMaker Feature Store takes care of processing the data into ML features. Read More […]
AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service introduces Amazon EC2 recommendations
Today, AWS Application Discovery Service introduces a public API to estimate the cost of running your existing on-premises servers in AWS. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EMR now publishes events for insufficient instance capacity errors
Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EMR now publishes events for insufficient instance capacity. This launch makes it simpler for customers to troubleshoot EC2 instance capacity issues by providing them an easy way to view which instance types have insufficient capacity. Additionally, customers can use these events to create rules to be notified […]