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AWS – Amazon EC2 R6i instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6i instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Osaka), Middle East (Bahrain), and Africa (Cape Town). R6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz. These instances come with always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 R6g, R6gd, and M6gd instances are now available in additional regions
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R6g instances are available in AWS Region Asia Pacific (Osaka). R6gd instances are available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Europe (Stockholm). M6gd instances are available in AWS Regions Asia Pacific (Osaka) and Africa (Cape Town). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors, […]

Azure – General Availability: Azure Sphere support for European Data Boundary
Azure Sphere Security Service EU data processing and storage is now generally available. Read More for the details.

GCP – Kicking off 2023 with a new startup accelerator focused on climate change
After the momentum of COP27 and the increasing commitments to climate solutions from nations and corporations throughout 2022, we’re excited to enter a more sustainable 2023. As more organizations navigate the necessary, sustainability-driven business transformations on the horizon, they’re looking for new tools and technology to help them. We believe the global startup ecosystem plays […]

GCP – Imagine the possibilities: Exploring industry use cases for Google Distributed Cloud Edge Appliance
While many organizations are driving digital transformation by migrating to the cloud, there are some industries, geographies, and use cases that require a different approach to cloud modernization. Regulated industries such as healthcare, insurance, pharmaceutical, energy, telecommunication, and banking have stringent data residency and sovereignty requirements. Other industries need to meet local data processing requirements, […]

GCP – Hype or Trend? 7 API management use cases rising in prominence
Paper currency — which started gaining prominence in the 1600s — changed the face of global economics and ushered in a new era of international monetary regulation. The primary reason currency created such disruption was its ability to standardize the “medium of exchange”. APIs created a similar effect in the world of technology and digitalization […]

GCP – New year, new skills – How to reach your cloud career destination
Cloud is a great place to grow your career in 2023. Opportunity abounds, with cloud roles offering strong salaries and scope for growth as a constantly evolving field.1 Some positions do not require a technical background, like project managers, product owners and business analysts. For others, like solutions architects, developers and administrators, coding and technical […]

GCP – Best Kept Security Secrets: How VPC Service Controls can help build defense in depth
While cloud security skeptics might believe that data in the cloud is just one access configuration mistake away from a breach, the reality is that a well-designed set of defense in depth controls can help minimize the risk of configuration mistakes and other security issues. Our Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Service Controls can play a […]

GCP – The Home Depot orchestrates self-service cloud solutions with Workflows
As one of the world’s largest home improvement retailers, The Home Depot (THD) needs to seamlessly manage the flow of work across a wide variety of IT systems to provide first-class retail experiences for our customers both online and in-store. We began our cloud migration journey back in 2017, with early successes leading us to […]
GCP – How to optimize training performance with the TensorFlow Profiler on Vertex AI
Training ML models can be computationally expensive. If you’re training models on large datasets, you might be used to model training taking hours, or days, or even weeks. But it’s not just a large volume of data that can increase training time. Nonoptimal implementations such as an inefficient input pipeline or low GPU usage can […]