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GCP – Vodafone: A DevOps approach to AI/ML through cloud-native CI/CD pipelines
Vodafone is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, and committed to building next-generation connectivity and a sustainable digital future. Last year, we discussed AI Booster, an AI/ML platform that we built that runs on Google Cloud, and how we use it to optimize customer service, improve customer loyalty, and provide better product […]
GCP – The big picture: How Google Photos scaled rapidly on Spanner
Mobile photography has become ubiquitous over the past decade, and it’s now easier than ever to take professional quality photos with the push of a button. This has resulted in explosive growth in the number of photo and video captures, and a huge portion of these photos and videos contain private, cherished, and beloved memories […]
GCP – New Google Research Innovators tackle wide range of challenges
Now in its third year, the Google Cloud Research Innovators program has invited 37 new participants to work with each other and Google experts to accelerate their most promising projects. The program offers select researchers expanded technical and networking support from Google professionals, access to Google’s latest cloud technologies, and additional Google Cloud research credits. […]
Azure – Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024
Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 – transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically delete Routing Profiles and Queues
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically delete routing profiles and queues. You can now remove routing profile and queue resources that are no longer applicable, streamlining your contact center as requirements change and you adapt to new strategies for call flows, agent groups and other routing configurations. Deleting unused resources also frees up capacity […]
AWS – AWS Batch on AWS Fargate now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in CLI/SDK
AWS Batch now supports Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in AWS Fargate. This feature helps simplify the adoption of modern container technology for AWS Batch customers by expanding their architecture options for scheduling Linux ARM64 and Windows x86 containers in Fargate compute environments. Support for ARM64 architecture also gives customers sustainability benefits of Graviton […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS adds programmatic execution for managed endpoints
We are excited to announce that Amazon EMR on EKS now supports programmatic execution of Jupyter notebooks when running interactive workloads via managed endpoints. Amazon EMR on EKS enables customers to run open-source big data frameworks such as Apache Spark on Amazon EKS. Amazon EMR on EKS customers can setup and use a managed endpoint […]
AWS – Amazon S3 Inventory can include ACLs as object metadata in inventory reports
With Amazon S3 Inventory, you can now easily review your access control lists (ACLs) on all of your objects to simplify review of access permissions. ACLs were the original way to manage object access when S3 launched in 2006. Now, when migrating to IAM-based bucket policies for access control, you can easily review all of […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M7g and R7g instances are now available in AWS Regions Europe (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Tokyo) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and built on the AWS Nitro System. AWS Graviton3 processors provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates
Amazon CloudFront announces support for 3072-bit RSA certificates. Customers can now associate their 3072-bit RSA certificates with CloudFront distributions to enhance communication security between clients and CloudFront edge locations. Read More for the details.