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AWS – Announcing a new AWS Bills page experience
Starting today, the AWS Bills page has a re-designed user experience, making it easier to understand your AWS spend. The Bills page provides an overview of your AWS charges and the ability to drill into key details; the re-design provides a refreshed user interface, new views of your savings and taxes, and enhanced sorting and […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 D3 Instances are now available in AWS Canada (Central) Region
Starting today, Amazon EC2 D3 instances, the latest generation of the dense HDD-storage instances, are available in the AWS Canada (Central) Region. D3 instances are powered by 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Cascade Lake) with a sustained all core frequency up to 3.1 GHz. D3 instances provide up to 2.5x higher networking speed and […]

Azure – Public preview: Resource governance for client applications in Azure Event Hubs
Independently throttle your event streaming workloads using application groups and client applications information. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Apache Parquet capturing support in Azure Event Hubs
Load real-time streaming data in Azure Event Hubs to data lakes, warehouses, and other storage services in Parquet format. Read More for the details.

GCP – MLOps System with AutoML and Pipeline in Vertex AI
When you build a machine learning product, you need to consider at least two MLOps scenarios. First of all, the model could be replaced later, as breakthrough algorithms are introduced in academia or industry. Secondly, the model itself has to evolve with the data in the changing world. We can handle both scenarios with the […]

GCP – Google Workspace, GKE help startup CAST AI grow faster and optimize cloud costs
In many ways, serial entrepreneur Gil Laurent and his technology startups have grown alongside Google Workspace and Google Cloud. When he was CEO and co-founder of Ukraine-based Viewdle — a machine learning and computer vision startup that was acquired by Google in 2012 — the organization relied on Google Workspace for many of its collaboration […]

AWS – Amazon AppFlow now supports Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and Mixpanel as sources
Amazon AppFlow, a fully managed integration service that helps customers to securely transfer data between AWS services and software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications in just a few clicks, now supports Facebook Ads, Google Ads and Mixpanel as sources. With this launch, AppFlow customers can now ingest rich marketing and product analytics data from these sources. Once ingested, […]

GCP – Introducing new commitments on the processing of service data for our cloud customers
At Google, we engage regularly with customers, regulators, policymakers, and other stakeholders to provide transparency into our operations, policies, and practices and to further strengthen our commitment to privacy compliance. One such engagement is our ongoing work with the Dutch government regarding its Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Google Workspace and Workspace for Education. […]

GCP – Mercari leverages Google’s vector search technology to create a new marketplace
Mercari is one of the most successful marketplace services in recent years, with 5.3 million active users in the US and 20 million active users in Japan. In Oct 2021, the company launched a new service Mercari Shops in Japan that allows small business owners and individuals to open their e-commerce portal in 3 minutes. […]
AWS – Enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within the Amazon RDS Console
Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS now supports enablement from within the Amazon RDS Console. Starting today, you can enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS to quickly detect, diagnose, and remediate a wide variety of database-related issues in Amazon Aurora databases while creating a new database. You can also now enable Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS from within […]