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AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports tag based resource authorization
Today we are announcing support for tags in IAM policies to allow granular control over access to Amazon Personalize resources and operations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that can be attached to […]
GCP – Opinary generates recommendations faster on Cloud Run
Editor’s note:Berlin-based startup Opinary migrated their machine learning pipeline from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Cloud Run. After making a few architectural changes, their pipeline is now faster and more cost-efficient. They reduced the time to generate a recommendation from 20 seconds to a second, and realized a remarkable 50% cost reduction. In this post, […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases S3 connector with VPC support to enable customers to index and search content from S3
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra S3 Connector to index and search documents from S3 hosted in their VPC. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches new recipe “Trending-Now”
Today, Amazon Personalize is excited to announce a new Trending-Now recipe that will help customers recommend items gaining popularity at the fastest pace among their users. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. User interests can change based on a variety of factors, […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases new Google Drive Connector to enable document indexing and search on Google Drive
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the new Amazon Kendra Google Drive Connector to index and search documents from Google Drive. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudShell is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible
AWS CloudShell is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS CloudShell for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3
You can now create Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to version 3.3.1, and upgrading Delta Lake. Read More for the details.
GCP – Responding to changes in cloud resources with Eventarc and Cloud Run
Responding to changes in cloud resources with Eventarc and Cloud Run In this post we explore how to use Eventarc to asynchronously react to cloud events that signal changes in cloud infrastructure. We also walk through an implementation of a basic Cloud Run service that can react to such an event and perform downstream operations. […]
GCP – Automating the retail customer journey through technology
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year and in preparation for NRF The Big Show, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. Please enjoy this entry from our […]
GCP – Sparse Features Support in BigQuery
Introduction Most machine learning models require the input features to be in numerical format and if the features are in categorial format, pre-processing steps such as one-hot encoding are needed to convert them into numerical format. Converting a large number of categorical values may lead to creating sparse features, a set of features that contains […]