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AWS – Amazon EC2 X2idn instances now available in Middle East (Dubai) region
Starting today, memory-optimized Amazon Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X2idn instances are available in Middle East (Dubai) and Europe (Zaragoza) regions. These instances, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and built with AWS Nitro System, are designed for memory-intensive workloads. They deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared […]
GCP – How to use custom holidays for time-series forecasting in BigQuery ML
Time-series forecasting is one of the most important models across a variety of industries, such as retail, telecom, entertainment, manufacturing. It serves many use cases such as forecasting revenues, predicting inventory levels and many others. It’s no surprise that time series is one of the most popular models in BigQuery ML. Defining holidays is important […]
GCP – From MySQL to NoSQL: Bitly’s big move to Bigtable
Editor’s note: Bitly, the link & QR Code management platform, migrated 80 billion rows of link data to Cloud Bigtable. Here’s how and why they moved this data from a MySQL database, all in just six days. Our goal at Bitly is simple: Make your life easier with connections. Whether you’re sharing links online, connecting […]
GCP – Three Private Service Connect patterns – Networking basics
Private Service Connect (PSC) allows private communications between service consumers and service producers. In this blog we will discuss a few ways you can use PSC for private communication. Components of Design PSC comprises of several components explained below: Consumers – Access managed services via private IP from within their own VPC. Producers – Have […]
GCP – How JCB is leveraging SRE to lead a successful digital transformation
About three years ago, JCB, one of the biggest Japanese payment companies, launched a project to develop new high-value services with agility. We set up a policy of starting small from scratch without using the existing system, which we call the concept of “Dejima”, where we focused on improving various aspects such as team structure, […]
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – Public Preview for July
New features now available in Public Preview enable you to create AI workflows that connect to various language models and data sources and use prompt flow and Azure OpenAI models to build LLM applications. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Machine Learning – General Availability for July
A new feature now available in GA enables you to create compute clusters in locations that are different from the location of the workspace. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Analytics on Amazon Lex
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”), virtual agents, and interactive voice response (IVR) systems. We are excited to announce the general availability of Analytics on Amazon Lex. Analytics gives access […]
AWS – Amazon Connect launches pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics
Amazon Connect now provides pre-defined Contact Lens conversational analytics metrics, available via the GetMetricDataV2 API, enabling contact center managers to analyze aggregate contact quality and agent performance. These new metrics allow managers to understand how many times an agent interrupted a customer, the talk-time for a contact overall, by agent, or by customer, and how […]
AWS – Amazon Corretto July, 2023 Quarterly Updates
On July 18, 2023 Amazon announced quarterly security and critical updates for Amazon Corretto Long-Term Supported (LTS) and Feature (FR) versions of OpenJDK. Corretto 20.0.2, 17.0.8, 11.0.20, 8u381 are now available for download. Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multi-platform, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK. Read More for the details.