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GCP – How GKE & Anthos Container-Aware Load balancing Increases Applications’ Reliability
Reliability of a system can be measured based on several factors, including, but not limited to, performance, resilience and security. Nevertheless, resiliency is one of the key factors. For more information on how to architect and operate reliable services on a cloud platform, refer to the reliability category of Google Cloud Architecture Framework. This blog […]
GCP – Solving internal search problems with Dialogflow
Employees often struggle to find the information they need to be productive. Countless hours are wasted each day as workers peruse a jungle of intranet pages, dig through emails, and otherwise struggle to find the resources they require. Dialogflow ES, a part of Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI (CCAI), can help. We’ve seen as much […]
AWS – Amazon Translate Enables Tagging Support for Parallel Data and Custom Terminology
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are launching support of tagging for custom terminology and parallel data resources and then allow/restrict access on them based on the tags. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Nitro System now supports previous generation of instances
Amazon Web Services announces AWS Nitro System support for EC2’s previous generation of instances to extend the length of service beyond the typical lifetime of the underlying hardware. The AWS Nitro System provides modern hardware and software components for EC2 instances, allowing customers to continue running their workloads and applications on the instance families they […]
AWS – AlexaTM 20B model is now available in SageMaker JumpStart
Today, we announce the public availability of Amazon’s state-of-the-art Alexa Teacher Model 20 Billion parameter model (AlexaTM 20B) in SageMaker JumpStart. Customers can access the AlexaTM 20B model programmatically to run inference using APIs available in SageMaker Python SDK. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during image copy
Starting today, Amazon EC2 enables customer created tags to be included during Amazon Machine Image (AMI) CopyImage operations. This feature aims to reduce customer burden if you want to employ the same tags across all your copied AMIs. Previously, when you created a copy of an AMI, any tags you created for that AMI did […]
AWS – Announcing AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry support for automatic associations based on tags
Today, AWS Service Catalog announces support for automatic association of application resources in AppRegistry based on AWS tags. With this release, customers can build applications using their preferred tools, and the associated resources are automatically added to the application based on their tags. Once registered, AppRegistry applications and their resources can be managed and assessed […]
AWS – Simplify cross-account access for your AWS services with AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions now supports cross-account access for more than 220 AWS services so it’s easier to process data, automate IT and business processes, and build applications across accounts. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Pricing Calculator now supports modernization cost estimates for Microsoft workloads
We are announcing the general availability of the AWS Modernization Calculator for Microsoft Workloads. Read More for the details.
GCP – How The FA is moving the goal posts with a data cloud approach in Qatar
We’re moments away from the kick-off of another historic tournament. After the England men’s football team reached the Euro 2020 final in last year’s pandemic-delayed competition, there is genuine confidence in a successful run in Qatar. The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of association football in England, and has left no stone […]