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AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling announces increased Auto Scaling group default limit per account
Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports a higher default limit for Auto Scaling groups per account. Customers can now create up to 500 Auto Scaling Groups per account, an increase from 200. The limit increase enables customers to provision, manage, and scale EC2 instances for more applications per account. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon EC2 G5 instances now available in additional regions
Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Canada (Central). G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 C7g instances powered by AWS Graviton3 processors now available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland)
Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7g instances are available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland). C7g instances are the first instances powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based C6g instances for a broad spectrum of applications such as application servers, microservices, batch processing, electronic design […]

GCP – Forrester names Google Cloud a leader in Document Analytics Platforms
At Google, our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our Document AI solutions suite, as well as the Vertex AI platform atop which Document AI is built, achieving this goal involves building capabilities to extract structured data from unstructured sources. Since launching Document AI in late […]

AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom now enables you to integrate agent assistance capabilities into custom agent applications
Amazon Connect Wisdom now provides a JavaScript library (WisdomJS) to integrate agent assistance capabilities into your homegrown or third-party agent application, enabling you to increase agent productivity and improve customer satisfaction without having to migrate your agents to another application. Amazon Connect Wisdom reduces the time agents spend searching for answers and enables quick resolution of […]

AWS – AWS Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 C6gd instances now available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6gd instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. C6gd instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads such as high performance computing (HPC), batch processing, ad serving, video encoding, gaming, scientific modelling, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inference. C6gd instances offer up to 50% more NVMe storage GB/vCPU over comparable x86-based […]

GCP – How SLSA and SBOM can help healthcare resiliency
Taking prescription medication at the direction of anyone other than a trained physician is very risky—and the same could be said for selecting technology used to run a hospital, to manage a drug manufacturing facility and, increasingly, to treat a patient for a medical condition. To pick the right medication, physicians need to carefully consider […]

AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches monitoring with CloudWatch metrics
Amazon QuickSight now supports monitoring of QuickSight assets by sending metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. QuickSight developers and administrators can use these metrics to observe and respond to the availability and performance of their QuickSight ecosystem in near real time. They can monitor dataset ingestions, dashboards, and visuals to provide their readers with a consistent, performant, […]

AWS – Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) support is generally available for SageMaker Ground Truth
Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth helps you build high-quality training datasets for your machine learning (ML) models. With SageMaker Ground Truth, you can use workers from Amazon Mechanical Turk, a vendor company that you choose, or your own private workforce to create labeled datasets for training ML models. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now supports synthetic data generation
We are excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth now provides support so you can generate labeled synthetic data without collecting large amounts of real-world, manually labeled data. Amazon SageMaker provides two data labeling offerings, Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth Plus and Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. You can use both options to identify raw data […]