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GCP – A new era of partnership: Unveiling Google Public Sector’s enhanced Partner Program
Google Public Sector is excited today to launch its enhanced Partner Program, designed to empower partners to achieve success in the public sector market. Unveiled at Public Sector Partner Connect 2024, this enhanced program – under the Partner Advantage Program umbrella – introduces several new initiatives focused on accelerating growth, fostering deeper collaboration, and maximizing […]
AWS – Assign billing of your shared Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations
Starting today, you can assign the billing of unused Amazon EC2 On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) to any one of your organization accounts with which the reservation is shared. Capacity Reservations help you reserve compute capacity for any duration and share it across multiple accounts, enabling you to centrally pool and manage your reserved capacity. When […]
AWS – Amazon Verified Permissions is now HIPAA eligible
Amazon Verified Permissions is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service, enabling healthcare and life sciences organizations subject to HIPAA to use the service for permissions management. Amazon Verified Permissions is a permissions management and fine-grained authorization service for the applications that you build. Amazon Verified Permissions uses the Cedar policy language […]
AWS – Amazon EKS now supports using NVIDIA and AWS Neuron accelerated instance types with AL2023
Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) optimized accelerated AMIs for Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023). EKS customers can now enjoy the improved security features, optimized boot times, and newer kernel versions of AL2023 for their workloads using NVIDIA GPU, AWS Inferentia, and AWS Trainium instances. These new AMIs are based […]
AWS – Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
Announcing Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain, an interactive generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant that helps you operate your supply chain more efficiently by analyzing the data in your AWS Supply Chain Data Lake, providing important operational and financial insights, and answering urgent supply chain questions. It reduces the time users spend searching for relevant […]
GCP – Fine-tuning Gemma, the journey from beginning to end
Chatbots are one of the more common, early use cases for generative AI, particularly in retail organizations. To make them useful for shoppers, a chatbot needs to be contextually sensitive to a retailer’s product catalog, with the ability to respond to customer inquiries conversationally, perhaps suggesting alternatives and complementary outfits. To accomplish this, an instruction-tuned […]
GCP – A founder’s guide to Google for Startups programs
As a startup founder, you’re juggling a million things – building your team, securing funding, and perfecting your product. Google for Startups is here to help you navigate the chaos and accelerate your growth. We offer a variety of high-touch programs tailored to different stages and needs, including: Google for Startups Accelerators: Intensive 10-week programs […]
GCP – Get up to 100x query performance improvement with BigQuery history-based optimizations
When looking for insights, users leave no stone unturned, peppering the data warehouse with a variety of queries to find the answers to their questions. Some of those queries consume a lot of computational resources — and many of those queries closely resemble one another. To further speed up query execution, we developed BigQuery history-based […]
AWS – Amazon Redshift Multi-AZ is generally available for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Redshift is announcing the general availability of Multi-AZ deployments for RA3 clusters in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Redshift Multi-AZ deployments support running your data warehouse in multiple AWS Availability Zones (AZ) simultaneously and continue operating in unforeseen failure scenarios. A Multi-AZ deployment raises the Redshift Service Level Agreement (SLA) to 99.99% and delivers […]
AWS – Bring your conversations to WhatsApp with AWS End User Messaging Social
AWS announces End User Messaging Social, enabling developers to message their end users on WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app with over 2.7 billion users. With this release, developers can create rich messaging experiences on WhatsApp with multimedia content and interactive features. They can now use WhatsApp alongside End User Messaging SMS and Push […]