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AWS – Amazon Kendra releases S3 connector with VPC support to enable customers to index and search content from S3
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra S3 Connector to index and search documents from S3 hosted in their VPC. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize launches new recipe “Trending-Now”
Today, Amazon Personalize is excited to announce a new Trending-Now recipe that will help customers recommend items gaining popularity at the fastest pace among their users. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. User interests can change based on a variety of factors, […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases new Google Drive Connector to enable document indexing and search on Google Drive
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the new Amazon Kendra Google Drive Connector to index and search documents from Google Drive. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CloudShell is now Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible
AWS CloudShell is now a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) eligible service. If you have an executed Business Associate Addendum (BAA) with AWS, you can now use AWS CloudShell for workloads that are subject to HIPAA compliance. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3
You can now create Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.3. The essential changes include features which come from upgrading Apache Spark to version 3.3.1, and upgrading Delta Lake. Read More for the details.
GCP – Responding to changes in cloud resources with Eventarc and Cloud Run
Responding to changes in cloud resources with Eventarc and Cloud Run In this post we explore how to use Eventarc to asynchronously react to cloud events that signal changes in cloud infrastructure. We also walk through an implementation of a basic Cloud Run service that can react to such an event and perform downstream operations. […]
GCP – Automating the retail customer journey through technology
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 – Sparse Features Support in BigQuery
Introduction Most machine learning models require the input features to be in numerical format and if the features are in categorial format, pre-processing steps such as one-hot encoding are needed to convert them into numerical format. Converting a large number of categorical values may lead to creating sparse features, a set of features that contains […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra launches Kendra Intelligent Ranking for self-managed OpenSearch
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, that enables organizations to provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon S3 Storage Lens introduces tiered pricing for cost-effective monitoring at scale
Amazon S3 Storage Lens now offers lower pricing tiers for customers with 25 billion or more objects, making continuous monitoring of large storage footprints more cost effective. Customers with hundreds of billions of objects will now see progressively lower prices, saving up to 40% on organization-wide storage monitoring. Read More for the details.