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GCP – How to Connect to Cloud SQL using Python … the easy way!
Connecting to Cloud SQL using Python is not always straightforward. Depending on the context, sometimes you have to connect to a Unix domain socket, sometimes you have to allow-list IP addresses for TCP connections, or sometimes you have to run the Cloud SQL Auth proxy locally. Making these connections secure is yet another challenge: you […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reuses SageMaker Training instances to reduce start-up overheads by 20x
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now reduces the start-up time of each training job launched to tune your models by 20x on average (from 2.5 minutes to 8 seconds). In scenarios where you have a large number of hyperparameter evaluations, the reuse of training instances can cumulatively save 2 hours for every 50 sequential evaluations. […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports managed Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replicas
Starting today, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle supports Oracle Data Guard Switchover and Automated Backups for read replica instances (read-only and mounted) deployed in separate AWS Regions, or in different Availability Zones of a given Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Location Service now supports refined access control for geofences and tracked devices
Amazon Location Service now supports service specific condition keys allowing developers to set access control rules for each individual tracked device and geofence within a collection. This adds an additional layer of security and prevents unauthorized and unintended access while managing devices and geofences. Read More for the details.
GCP – Route Datadog monitoring alerts to Google Cloud with Eventarc
A few weeks ago, we announced third-party event sources for Eventarc, with the first cohort of third-party providers by our ecosystem partners. This blog post describes how to listen for events from one of those third-party providers, Datadog, and route them to a service in Google Cloud via Eventarc. Datadog is a monitoring platform for […]
AWS – Amazon Forecast now supports what-if analyses
Now with Amazon Forecast, you can seamlessly conduct what-if analyses to quantify the potential impact of business scenarios on your demand forecasts. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to deliver highly accurate time series forecasts. Simulating hypothetical scenarios through what-if analyses is a powerful business tool to stress test […]
AWS – AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies
AWS IoT SiteWise now supports non-unique asset names under different hierarchies, allowing asset name reusability. The new feature simplifies scaling for companies creating asset hierarchies for more than one hierarchy tree within the same AWS account and AWS IoT SiteWise installation. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS support for Mandarin Chinese
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of a neural version of Zhiyu, Polly’s Mandarin Chinese female text to speech (TTS) voice. Read More for the details.
GCP – Jupiter evolving: Reflecting on Google’s data center network transformation
Data center networks form the basis for modern warehouse-scale and cloud computing. The underlying guarantee of uniform, arbitrary communication among tens of thousands of servers at 100s of Gb/s of bandwidth with sub-100us latency has transformed computing and storage. The primary benefit of this model is simple yet profound: adding an incremental server or storage […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the machine learning process to make it […]