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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 […]
AWS – Application Auto Scaling now offers better visibility into scaling decisions
Application Auto Scaling now offers customers more visibility about the scaling decisions it takes for an auto scaled resource. Application Auto Scaling (AAS) is a service that offers standardized experience across 13 different AWS services beyond Amazon EC2, for example Amazon DynamoDB provisioned read and write capacity, and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) services. Application […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Logs removes Log Stream transaction quota and SequenceToken requirement
Starting today, Amazon CloudWatch Logs is removing the 5 requests per second log stream quota when calling Amazon CloudWatch Logs PutLogEvents API. There will be no new per log stream quota. With this change we have removed the need for splitting your log ingestion across multiple log streams to prevent log stream throttling. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB is now available in 11 additional AWS Regions around the world. With Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, you can capture item-level changes in your DynamoDB tables as a Kinesis data stream with a single click in the DynamoDB console, or by using the AWS API, CLI or CloudFormation templates. […]
AWS – Backtrack Support for Aurora MySQL Version 3 (Compatible with MySQL 8.0) is generally available
Amazon Aurora MySQL Version 3 (Compatible with MySQL 8.0) now offers support for Backtrack. Backtrack allows you to move your database to a prior point in time without needing to restore from a backup, and it completes within seconds, even for large databases. Read More for the details.
Azure – Private Preview: Featured Clothing
This insight provides information on key items worn by individuals within a video and the timestamp in which the clothing appears. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Backup for SAP HANA: General availability updates for Dec 2022
In Dec 2022, the following updates and enhancements were made for Azure Backup for SAP HANA – a backint certified database backup solution for SAP HANA databases in Azure VMs.Long term retention for… Read More for the details.
Azure – Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version
The ITSM connector provides a bi-directional connection between Azure and ITSM tools to help track and resolve issues faster. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Studio Job Notebooks are now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS region
AWS Glue Studio Job Notebooks provide interactive job authoring in AWS Glue, which helps simplify the process of developing data integration jobs. Job Notebooks also provide a serverless, built-in interface for AWS Glue Interactive Sessions, a feature of AWS Glue that allows customers to run interactive Apache Spark workloads on demand. Read More for the […]