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GCP – Traffic Director: TLS routing using Envoy gateway proxy on GKE
A common pattern for solving application networking challenges is to use a service mesh. Users familiar with such architectures face challenges related to network flow, security, and observability. Traffic Director is a managed Google service that helps solve these problems. In this blog, we are going to share a sample architecture, using Traffic Director to […]
GCP – Announcing MongoDB connector for Apigee Integration
MongoDB is a developer friendly application data platform that makes it easy for developers to access a wide variety of data using a unified language interface, simplifying the data handling process. MongoDB Atlas , MongoDB’s fully managed cloud database, enhances MongoDB’s capabilities even further with full-text search and real-time analytics, as well as event-driven and […]
Azure – General availability: Virtual Machine software reservations
You can now save on Virtual Machine software from third-party publishers by purchasing software reservations. Read More for the details.
GCP – Intro to deep learning to track deforestation in supply chains
Introduction In my experience, I have observed that it’s common in machine learning to surrender to the process of experimenting with many different algorithms in a trial and error fashion, until you get the desired result. My peers and I at Google have a 🌍People and Planet AI YouTube series where we talk about how […]
AWS – AWS Private 5G service now includes support for multiple radio-units
AWS Private 5G is a managed service that makes it easier to deploy, operate, and scale your own private mobile network, with all required hardware and software provided by AWS. To set up a private mobile network and connect devices, AWS delivers and maintains the following required components: small-cell radio unit, subscriber identity modules (SIM […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for correlation matrices for advanced data analysis
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for correlation matrices for advanced data analysis, thereby expanding capabilities to get insights from your data prior to building ML models. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for SQL Server Now Supports Access to Transaction Log Backups
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for SQL Server now supports access to transaction log backups. With this feature, customers can gain access to transaction log backups that are generated on the Amazon RDS SQL Server instance and copied to a customer S3 bucket. Subsequently, customers can restore single databases on that DB instance to […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces encryption support with customer managed keys for time series forecast models
Amazon SageMaker Canvas announces support for encryption at rest for datasets and machine learning (ML) models for time series forecasting use cases, on both quick and standard builds. SageMaker Canvas is a visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having […]
AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool improves workload discovery and speeds up reviews
AWS is pleased to announce the availability of two new features in the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool)—integrations with AWS Trusted Advisor and AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry—that will help you more easily discover the information needed to answer Well-Architected review questions and shorten your review time. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
Amazon ElastiCache clusters now support the IPv6 protocol, allowing clients to connect to ElastiCache clusters using IPv6. You can now configure your cluster to accept only IPv6 connections or to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 connections. This allows you to work to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and more efficiently integrate with existing IPv6-based applications. Read More […]