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GCP – Controlling your BigQuery costs
Are you worried about controlling your BigQuery costs across multiple projects? In this blog, you will learn about the different guardrails BigQuery provides to limit costs, and monitor BigQuery consumption. Also, learn how to design the warehouse that scales seamlessly while keeping costs under your control. 1. Set up user-level quota and project-level quota can […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize allows rule-based promotions in recommendations
Amazon Personalize now allows you to promote specific items in all users’ recommendations based on rules that align with your business goals. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Personalize currently recommends relevant items for each user or similar items to a given item […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches support for range queries on dynamic filters
Amazon Personalize now supports comparison operators ( =, <, <=, >, >=) for dynamic filters to provide flexibility in applying your business rules to recommendations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Dynamic filters currently allow you to change filter criteria at the time of […]
AWS – Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle now supports Scale Compute
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) Custom for Oracle now supports Scale Compute operation. With this, you can now scale your Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle instance up or down. Read More for the details.
AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK announces elastic channels
The Amazon Chime SDK enables developers to add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web and mobile applications. Starting today, Amazon Chime SDK messaging supports large-scale chat experiences for up to one million users with elastic channels. Use cases include watch parties for sporting events, political events, or live entertainment with create […]
AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g, M6gd, C6g, and R6g are now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, M6gd, C6g, and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) region. AWS Graviton2-based instances provide up to 40% better price performance over comparable x86-based instances. M6g and M6gd instances are ideal for general purpose workloads such as application servers, microservices, mid-size data stores, and […]
GCP – Securing apps for Googlers using Anthos Service Mesh
Hi there! I’m David Challoner from Access Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), here with Anthony Bushong from Developer Relations to talk about how Corp Eng is adopting Anthos Service Mesh internally at Google. Corp Eng is Google’s take on “Enterprise IT”. A big part of the Corp Eng mission is running the first and third party […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports incremental bulk dataset imports
We are excited to announce that Amazon Personalize now supports incremental bulk dataset imports; a new option for updating your data and improving the quality of your recommendations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Previously, Amazon Personalize supported two types of data ingestion: […]
AWS – AWS DeepRacer Student now offers community races and new Intel learning content with a look under the hood of the DeepRacer vehicle
AWS DeepRacer Student, presented by Intel, is the first global autonomous racing league for students offering free educational material and resources to get hands on with machine learning (ML) by powering a 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement learning. Now available are student community races and additional learning content diving into the OpenVINO™ toolkit […]
GCP – Building security guardrails for developers with Google Cloud
Organizations across the globe are using the cloud to drive innovation. Developers are using cloud technology as the engine to test new ideas, fail fast, and automate scalability. Innovation on the cloud requires freedom and flexibility to run experiments and make mistakes. For many organizations with security top of mind, their concern is “How do […]