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GCP – “Take that leap of faith” Meet the Googler helping customers create financial inclusion
What brought you to Google? Honestly, the opportunity fell in my lap. I had just graduated from NYU with an MS in business ops and hospitality, and a staffing agency for Google reached out—they were looking for hospitality majors to support recruitment, hosting an engineer for the day as they walked through their interview process. […]
AWS – Announcing Metered Billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs
We are announcing the launch of metered billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs, which gives data providers the ability to license APIs to subscribers on a pay-as-you-go basis. AWS Data Exchange for APIs enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products listed on AWS Data Exchange. This new feature allows data […]
Azure – General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics
The new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series are well suited for high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data intensive applications and more. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Manage Azure Web Application Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale within a centralized place. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Conversational language understanding
Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI
Perfect for a range of AI workloads, this new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous NC generation series. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance now available for purchase through resellers
AWS Storage Gateway is expanding the ways you can purchase the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, and for the first-time enabling resellers to offer the appliance. Now you can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of your choice, and leverage your existing purchasing agreements. Read More for the details.
AWS – Price reductions on Amazon EC2 instances running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) OS
We are excited to announce the following price reductions for Amazon EC2 instances running SLES. When you run SLES on Amazon EC2, you are charged one combined price for the Amazon EC2 infrastructure and the SUSE OS. Read More for the details.
GCP – Meet the startups joining Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud
Startups are solving the world’s important challenges with agility, innovative technology, and determination, and Google Cloud is proud to support them. To help connect European founders building with Cloud to the people, products, and best practices they need to grow, we announced the first Google for Startups Accelerator: Cloud in Europe and Israel. This ten-week […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker supports incremental training for JumpStart models
Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily solve your machine learning problems with one-click access to (a) more than 300 popular model collections from TensorFlow Hub, PyTorch Hub, Hugging Face and Gluon CV, and (b) 18 end-to-end solutions that solve common business problems such as demand forecasting, fraud detection and document understanding. The available models […]