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GCP – How Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud help secure the future of omnichannel retail
Editor’s note: To kick off the new year and in preparation for NRF The Big Show, we invited partners from across our retail ecosystem to share stories, best practices, and tips and tricks on how they are helping retailers transform during a time that continues to see tremendous change. Please enjoy this entry from our […]
GCP – Everything you need to know about architecting reliable infrastructure for Google Cloud workloads
Do you worry about the reliability of your workloads in the cloud? Does the thought of application downtime give you sleepless nights? At Google, we also think about reliability a lot — and take steps to ensure your workloads are running on a reliable foundation: We’ve designed Google Cloud to tolerate infrastructure failures and recover […]
GCP – Reading and storing data for custom model training on Vertex AI
Before you can train ML models in the cloud, you need to get your data to the cloud. But when it comes to storing data on Google Cloud there are a lot of different options. Not to mention the different ways you can read in data when designing input pipelines for custom models. Should you […]
GCP – Introducing Threat Ready with Mandiant for safer digital transformations to the cloud
It is an exciting time at Google Cloud as we integrate Mandiant’s intelligence and expertise into our enterprise offerings. Today, I am pleased to announce a new offering, Threat Ready with Mandiant. This new solution can help enterprises protect what matters most to their business, and can help them access Mandiant expertise. Threat Ready with […]
AWS – Announcing the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift
We are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller zonal shift which helps you quickly recover from application failures in an AWS Availability Zone (AZ). You can now shift application traffic away from using an AZ with a single action for multi-AZ resources with support of Application Load Balancer […]
AWS – AWS Transit Gateway is now available in Middle East (UAE) Region
AWS Transit Gateway is now available in the Middle East (UAE) AWS Region. AWS Transit Gateway enables customers to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and their on-premises networks using a single gateway. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS now supports restoring database snapshots from Multi-AZ with two readable standbys
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) now supports restoring database (DB) snapshots taken from Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments with two readable standbys to Amazon RDS Single-AZ DB instances and Amazon RDS Multi-AZ DB instances with one standby. You can now use the DB snapshot restore capability to create new MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instances for […]
AWS – Amazon Location Service adds GrabMaps in Southeast Asia
Amazon Location Service adds a new data source in Southeast Asia, GrabMaps, offering maps, search, and routing. Developers building applications in Southeast Asia can display their data on local up-to-date maps, use search boxes to locate end-user addresses and points of interest, and calculate routes using real-time traffic conditions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports tag based resource authorization
Today we are announcing support for tags in IAM policies to allow granular control over access to Amazon Personalize resources and operations. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. Tags are labels in the form of key-value pairs that can be attached to […]
GCP – Opinary generates recommendations faster on Cloud Run
Editor’s note:Berlin-based startup Opinary migrated their machine learning pipeline from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Cloud Run. After making a few architectural changes, their pipeline is now faster and more cost-efficient. They reduced the time to generate a recommendation from 20 seconds to a second, and realized a remarkable 50% cost reduction. In this post, […]