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GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early May 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2023. This month, we’re featuring guest author MK Palmore, director in our Office of the CISO. MK will be discussing our new Google Cybersecurity Certificate and how it can help organizations close the security talent gap. Before I turn the mic over to MK, I’d like […]
GCP – When they go closed, we go open – Google Cloud and open billing data
Cloud cost optimization, a key FinOps practice pillar, begins with understanding. But deciphering cloud bills can sometimes feel like a full-time job. If you have a multicloud environment, you’ve likely observed that cloud providers rarely, if ever, handle cloud billing the same way. Making sense of multiple cloud bills is like working overtime! To demystify […]
GCP – Announcing new idle VM recommendation configuration option in Google Cloud
Active Assist’s Idle VM recommendations can help you save money and resources by identifying and deleting idle VMs. Today, we’re excited to announce a new configuration option for idle Virtual Machine recommendations, giving you more control over how idle VMs are identified and recommended for deletion. Google Cloud generates idle VM recommendations automatically based on […]
GCP – How SEEN scaled output 89x and reduced GPU costs by 66% using Google Kubernetes Engine
At SEEN, we’re in the personalized video business. We serve a wide range of clients who need to render and stream a high volume of unique, high definition videos that leverage data points — like name, gender, purchase history, etc. — to speak directly to their customers and constituents. For some of these campaigns, we […]
GCP – Build, automate, and monitor BigQuery ML models with Vertex AI MLOps capabilities
Making machine learning (ML) models work in production is hard. It usually requires not only a deep understanding of ML, data engineering, and software engineering, but also a variety of tools and technologies. BigQuery ML and Vertex AI make it easier to create, deploy, and manage machine learning models. BigQuery ML provides a SQL interface […]
GCP – Bringing the power of large models to Google Cloud’s Speech API
As voice becomes an increasingly popular touchpoint between businesses and customers, our Speech-to-Text (STT) API has been one of the fastest growing APIs from Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s Speech API processes more than 1 billion voice minutes per month for our enterprise customers, across a range of industries, with near-human levels of understanding for many […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 C6in instances are now available in 20 AWS regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(Amazon EC2) C6in instances are available in Europe (Frankfurt, London, Milan, Zurich). These instances are powered by 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with all-core turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz, and are the first x86-based Amazon EC2 instances to offer up to 200 Gbps network bandwidth. Read More […]
AWS – The new Amazon EMR Console is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
We are excited to announce that the newly re-designed Amazon EMR console is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) Regions. Amazon EMR is the cloud big data solution for petabyte-scale data processing, interactive analytics, and machine learning using open-source frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto. The re-designed console introduces a new […]
AWS – Amazon Detective now supports investigations for additional AWS services
Amazon Detective now helps provide root cause analysis for security findings from eight additional services integrated with AWS Security Hub. With this expanded capability, you can use Detective to conduct more comprehensive investigations, helping you identify resources, patterns, and the scope of potential security issues. Read More for the details.
GCP – Faster together: How Dun & Bradstreet datasets accelerate your real-time insights
At the third annual Google Data Cloud and AI Summit, we shared how data analytics and insights continue to be a key focus area for our customers and how we’re accelerating their data journeys through new product innovations and partner offerings. A big part of that is helping customers turn their data into insights faster […]