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Azure – Public preview: Log compaction support in Azure Event Hubs
Retain the latest events of an event log by using compacted event hubs or Kafka topics in Azure Event Hubs. Read More for the details.
GCP – Build your API security strategy on these 4 pillars
Savvy leaders at organizations around the world know that digital transformations can create a virtuous flywheel of more and faster innovation, driven by the power of software integration. APIs can facilitate the necessary software integration and communication, and that requires serious consideration of the organization’s API security posture to better protect its data and digital […]
GCP – Building out your support insights pipeline
Getting into the details We wrote previously about how we used clustering to connect requests for support (in text form) to the best tech support articles so we could answer questions faster and more efficiently. In a constantly changing environment (and in a very oddball couple of years) we wanted to make sure we’re focused […]
Azure – Public preview: Processor diagram in Physical Job Diagram for Stream Analytics job troubleshooting
The processor diagram in physical job diagram provides you further insights within the streaming nodes of your stream analytics jobs. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ECS Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate on AWS Graviton Processors
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Service Connect now supports AWS Fargate workloads running on AWS Graviton Processors. Service Connect simplifies service discovery, connectivity and traffic observability for Amazon ECS and helps you build applications faster by letting you focus on the application code instead of your networking infrastructure. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Managed Grafana adds support for AWS CloudFormation
Amazon Managed Grafana now supports AWS CloudFormation. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to create, update, and delete your Amazon Managed Grafana workspaces, as well as manage or update workspace SAML authentication settings. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Braket now supports adjoint gradient computation, unlocking runtime improvements and cost savings
SV1, the on-demand state vector simulator on Amazon Braket, now supports the computation of gradients using the adjoint differentiation method, enabling customers to reduce runtime and save costs for their quantum machine learning and optimization workloads. With this launch, customers simulating variational quantum algorithms with a large number of parameters, such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm […]
AWS – Announcing preview of SageMaker Model Training support for ml.p4de instances
Amazon SageMaker model training now supports preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge(p4de) instances, powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs and high-performance HBM2e GPU memory. These instances provide the highest performing compute infrastructure currently available for use cases that require training of large language models (LLMs), computer vision (object detection, semantic segmentation) and generative artificial intelligence. Read More for the […]
AWS – Announcing Global Free Tier Pricing Rules for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can now disable Always Free Tier offers when creating a global pricing rule in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). Pricing rules with free tier disabled allow customers to default to the first paid tier for all AWS services. For example, AWS partners can use a global pricing rule with free tier disabled to […]
GCP – Google Cloud partners with American Legion in California to help veterans build cloud computing skills
Today, the American Legion Department of California announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to connect 500 California veterans with no-cost access to Google Cloud Skills Boost. This new collaborative effort will help train, upskill, and provide credentials to veterans in cloud computing skills – creating pathways to technical, in-demand jobs. As companies, nonprofits, and […]