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GCP – Cloud Wisdom Weekly: 4 ways AI/ML boosts innovation and reduces costs
“Cloud Wisdom Weekly: for tech companies and startups” is a new blog series we’re running this fall to answer common questions our tech and startup customers ask us about how to build apps faster, smarter, and cheaper. In this installment, we explore how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for faster innovation […]
AWS – AWS App Runner now supports deployment using cross-region Amazon ECR image
AWS App Runner now supports Amazon ECR images from any AWS region to create or update App Runner services. App Runner makes it easy for developers to quickly deploy containerized web applications and APIs to the cloud, at scale, and without having to manage infrastructure. With App Runner you can deploy your application from source code […]
AWS – AWS Fargate increases compute and memory resource configurations by 4x
AWS Fargate customers can now configure Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) tasks and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) pods to use up to 16 vCPUs, an approximately 4x increase from before. vCPUs are the primary compute resource in ECS tasks and EKS pods. Larger vCPUs enable compute-heavy applications like machine learning inference, scientific modeling, and […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now provides up to 3x faster hyperparameter tuning with Hyperband as a new search strategy
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning allows you to find the most accurate version of your machine learning model by searching for the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations. SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports Hyperband, a new search strategy that can find the optimal set of hyperparameters up to 3x faster than Bayesian search for large-scale […]
AWS – AWS IoT TwinMaker Launches v1.2.0 of the TwinMaker Grafana Plugin
AWS IoT TwinMaker introduces new features to improve the performance of data panels powered by the TwinMaker Grafana Plugin. For a complete list of features, see the changelog on AWS IoT TwinMaker App in Grafana. A few key features included in this new version are: Customers can now define the maximum number of alarms that […]
GCP – Introducing a modern cloud native approach for running Moodle at scale
Even before 2020, the education market was rapidly leaning into digitalization. That trend exploded when the pandemic forced education online, requiring every part of the education process to be digitized. Interaction between students and teachers shifted from physical classrooms to entirely digital ones. Institutions had to work quickly to support this shift. Most either expanded […]
GCP – Architecting for database encryption on Google Cloud
Encryption and data protection is a major requirement for customers moving their workloads to the cloud. To meet this requirement, organizations often invest a great deal of time in protecting sensitive data in cloud-based databases. This is driven mostly by government regulations, compliance, and organizations’ security requirements to have data protected at rest. As Customer […]
GCP – Announcing Pub/Sub metrics dashboards for improved observability
Pub/Sub offers a rich set of metrics for resource and usage monitoring. Previously, these metrics were like buried treasure: they were useful to understand Pub/Sub usage, but you had to dig around to find them. Today, we are announcing out-of-the-box Pub/Sub metrics dashboards that are accessible with one click from the Topics and Subscriptions pages […]
GCP – Paccurate reduces shipping costs and minimizes carbon emissions with the help of Google Cloud
Rising shipping costs are preventing retailers from delivering basic items people need at an affordable price. Although the retail industry has spent decades trying to bring new efficiencies to shipping, higher fuel costs and supply chain disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are worsening the challenge. AtPaccurate, we believe smarter packing is key to creating […]
GCP – GitOps your service orchestrations
GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, an application is not […]