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GCP – Introducing Threat Ready with Mandiant for safer digital transformations to the cloud
It is an exciting time at Google Cloud as we integrate Mandiant’s intelligence and expertise into our enterprise offerings. Today, I am pleased to announce a new offering, Threat Ready with Mandiant. This new solution can help enterprises protect what matters most to their business, and can help them access Mandiant expertise. Threat Ready with […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift which helps you quickly recover from application failures in an AWS Availability Zone (AZ). You can now shift application traffic away from using an AZ with a single action for multi-AZ resources with support of Application Load Balancer […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports restoring database snapshots from Multi-AZ with two readable standbys
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports restoring database (DB) snapshots taken from Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys to Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby. You can now use the DB snapshot restore capability to create new MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instances for […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service adds GrabMaps in Southeast Asia
Amazon Location Service adds a new data source in Southeast Asia, GrabMaps, offering maps, search, and routing. Developers building applications in Southeast Asia can display their data on local up-to-date maps, use search boxes to locate end-user addresses and points of interest, and calculate routes using real-time traffic conditions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports tag based resource authorization
Today we are announcing support for tags in IAM policies to allow granular control over access to Amazon Personalize resources and operations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that can be attached to […]
GCP – Opinary generates recommendations faster on Cloud Run
Editor’s note:Berlin-based startup Opinary migrated their machine learning pipeline from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Cloud Run. After making a few architectural changes, their pipeline is now faster and more cost-efficient. They reduced the time to generate a recommendation from 20 seconds to a second, and realized a remarkable 50% cost reduction. In this post, […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases S3 connector with VPC support to enable customers to index and search content from S3
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra S3 Connector to index and search documents from S3 hosted in their VPC. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches new recipe “Trending-Now”
Today, Amazon Personalize is excited to announce a new Trending-Now recipe that will help customers recommend items gaining popularity at the fastest pace among their users. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. User interests can change based on a variety of factors, […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases new Google Drive Connector to enable document indexing and search on Google Drive
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the new Amazon Kendra Google Drive Connector to index and search documents from Google Drive. Read More for the details.