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GCP – How Asahi Group fostered a culture of innovation by building a data analysis platform
As an intermediate holding company, Asahi Group oversees operating companies in Japan including Asahi Breweries, Asahi Soft Drinks, and Asahi Group Foods. In 2015, we began the first phase of our IT infrastructure development. This was followed by two phases, with the goal of the second phase to include IT functions as part of the […]
GCP – How DeNA developed a live streaming app in just 2 months with Live Stream API
As a provider of several mobile portal and e-commerce platforms in Japan, DeNA Co., Ltd (DeNA) has continuously sought to expand its portfolio of services to create value for society and innovation in the entertainment business by leveraging internet and AI technologies. That is why it launched Play-by-Play LIVE, an application that allows professional or […]
GCP – Maximizing Reliability, Minimizing Costs: Right-Sizing Kubernetes Workloads
Do you know how much money you could save by adjusting workload requests to better represent their actual usage? If you’re not rightsizing your workloads, you might be overpaying for resources that your workloads aren’t even using or worse, putting your workloads at risk for reliability issues due to under provisioning. As we’ve previously discussed, […]
GCP – Making social robot conversations more natural with Speech-to-Text
MIXI, Inc. (MIXI) is a social networking organization that provides a diverse range of services for friends and family to enjoy together, such as the social-media platform mixi, a mobile game called Monster Strike, and a family photo and video sharing service known as FamilyAlbum. One of our current projects is Romi, a social robot […]
AWS – Amazon VPC now supports primary IPv6 address on an elastic network interface
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the launch of primary IPv6 address in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), enabling customer to make the first IPv6 address associated with their elastic network interface (ENI) immutable. Once the first IPv6 address is made primary on the ENI, the IPv6 address cannot be removed as long as the ENI […]
AWS – Announcing support for ml.p5 instances for Amazon SageMaker Model Training
Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.p5 instances, powered by NVIDIA H100 chips, which are purpose built for high-performance ML training applications in the cloud. You can use ml.p5 instances on SageMaker to train some of the most demanding models. This includes large language models (LLMs) and diffusion models powering the most demanding generative AI […]
AWS – Amazon Aurora now supports automatic backup of deleted clusters
Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible and PostgreSQL-Compatible editions now supports automatic backups for deleted clusters. Customers can now choose to retain automatic backups when deleting an Aurora cluster, and later use it to restore a new cluster from it. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS simplifies connectivity between an RDS or Aurora database and AWS Lambda
Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity between an Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) or an Amazon Aurora database and an AWS Lambda function using an Amazon RDS Proxy. From the Amazon RDS console, you can choose an action to set up a connection between your Amazon RDS or Amazon […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs is now available in five additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can use AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs in five additional AWS regions: Middle East (UAE), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Spain), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), and Asia Pacific (Melbourne). Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing the release of AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3
AWS Thinkbox Deadline 10.3.0.9 is generally available with a DeadlineCommand application plugin, updated support for third-party integrations, and an upgrade to Python 3.10. Read More for the details.