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AWS – Amazon Connect launches APIs to programmatically configure prompts
Amazon Connect now provides APIs to programmatically create and manage prompts. Prompts are audio files like on-hold music that can be customized and configured to play within call flows. With this launch, you can now programmatically create new custom prompts, or extract prompts stored within Amazon Connect and add them to your Amazon S3 bucket. […]
AWS – AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector now supports on-premises databases
Starting today, the AWS Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector supports the discovery of on-premises databases, allowing you to achieve more comprehensive data collection through the deployment of a single tool. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial ML (Generally Available)
Amazon SageMaker now supports geospatial machine learning (ML), making it easier for data scientists and ML engineers to build, train, and deploy ML models using geospatial data. Today, the majority of all data generated contains geospatial information, but only a small fraction of it is used for ML because accessing, processing, and visualizing the data […]
GCP – Understand and manage data at scale with Cloud Storage Insights
With Cloud Storage, organizations can scale cloud storage usage from terabytes (TBs) to exabytes (EBs) without being constrained by infrastructure or scalability. But, when data volume increases, it gets harder to efficiently discover and manage that data, which can cause problems such as security flaws and unforeseen storage expenditures. To address these challenges, we’re excited […]
GCP – Cloud CISO Perspectives: Early May 2023
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for May 2023. This month, we’re featuring guest author MK Palmore, director in our Office of the CISO. MK will be discussing our new Google Cybersecurity Certificate and how it can help organizations close the security talent gap. Before I turn the mic over to MK, I’d like […]
GCP – When they go closed, we go open – Google Cloud and open billing data
Cloud cost optimization, a key FinOps practice pillar, begins with understanding. But deciphering cloud bills can sometimes feel like a full-time job. If you have a multicloud environment, you’ve likely observed that cloud providers rarely, if ever, handle cloud billing the same way. Making sense of multiple cloud bills is like working overtime! To demystify […]
GCP – Announcing new idle VM recommendation configuration option in Google Cloud
Active Assist’s Idle VM recommendations can help you save money and resources by identifying and deleting idle VMs. Today, we’re excited to announce a new configuration option for idle Virtual Machine recommendations, giving you more control over how idle VMs are identified and recommended for deletion. Google Cloud generates idle VM recommendations automatically based on […]
GCP – How SEEN scaled output 89x and reduced GPU costs by 66% using Google Kubernetes Engine
At SEEN, we’re in the personalized video business. We serve a wide range of clients who need to render and stream a high volume of unique, high definition videos that leverage data points — like name, gender, purchase history, etc. — to speak directly to their customers and constituents. For some of these campaigns, we […]
GCP – Build, automate, and monitor BigQuery ML models with Vertex AI MLOps capabilities
Making machine learning (ML) models work in production is hard. It usually requires not only a deep understanding of ML, data engineering, and software engineering, but also a variety of tools and technologies. BigQuery ML and Vertex AI make it easier to create, deploy, and manage machine learning models. BigQuery ML provides a SQL interface […]
GCP – Bringing the power of large models to Google Cloud’s Speech API
As voice becomes an increasingly popular touchpoint between businesses and customers, our Speech-to-Text (STT) API has been one of the fastest growing APIs from Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s Speech API processes more than 1 billion voice minutes per month for our enterprise customers, across a range of industries, with near-human levels of understanding for many […]