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GCP – The new Google Cloud region in Columbus, Ohio is open
Digital tools such as cloud computing are fueling economic transformation across the US, including Ohio. Google continues to invest across cities and communities in Ohio, bringing over 200 jobs to the state, and helping provide $12.85 billion of economic activity for tens of thousands of Ohio businesses, nonprofits, publishers, creators and developers. To further accelerate […]
AWS – Offer acceptance email notifications is now available on AWS Marketplace
Today, AWS Marketplace announced general availability of Offer Acceptance Email Notifications which will notify users by email when a customer completes an offer subscription. With this launch, customers can now have real-time visibility into Offer Acceptance and Subscription by buyers, allowing them to track the overall progress of an AWS Marketplace transaction. Buyers, ISVs and Channel Partners […]
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now FedRAMP compliant
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in AWS GovCloud (US-West) and AWS GovCloud (US-East). Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Comprehend detects and redacts 14 new PII entity types across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and India
Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to find insights and relationships like people, places, sentiments, and topics in unstructured text. You can use Amazon Comprehend ML capabilities to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) in customer emails, support tickets, product reviews, social media, and more. For […]
GCP – How ASU is improving learner experiences with the Unizin Data Platform
Many first-generation and non-traditional learners who enroll at Arizona State University (ASU) benefit from a personalized learning approach. To support a diverse range of learners, the EdPlus team at ASU needed a way to deliver more individualized learning experiences to support student success at scale. The EdPlus team sought technology that was easy to deploy, […]
AWS – Amazon CloudFront now provides TLS version and cipher suite in CloudFront-Viewer-TLS-header
CloudFront now provides the CloudFront-Viewer-TLS header for use with origin request policies. CloudFront-Viewer-TLS is an HTTP header that includes the TLS version and cipher suite used to negotiate the viewer TLS connection. Previously, TLS information was available in CloudFront access logs to analyze previous requests. Now, customers can access the TLS version and cipher suite […]
GCP – Training Deep Learning-based recommender models of 100 trillion parameters over Google Cloud
Training recommender models of 100 trillion parameters A recommender system is an important component of Internet services today: billion dollar revenue businesses are directly driven by recommendation services at big tech companies. The current landscape of production recommender systems is dominated by deep learning based approaches, where an embedding layer is first adopted to map […]
GCP – Introducing GKE cost estimator, built right into the Google Cloud console
Have you ever wondered what it will cost to run a particular Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster? How various configurations and feature choices will affect your costs? What the potential of autoscaling might be on your bill? If you’ve ever tried to estimate this yourself, you know it can be a puzzle — especially if […]
GCP – Google Cloud establishes European Advisory Board
Customers around the globe turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to digitally transform, enable growth, and solve their most critical business problems. To help inform Google Cloud on how it can continually improve the value and experience it delivers for its customers in Europe, the company has set up a European advisory board […]
AWS – AWS Control Tower now supports concurrent operations for preventive guardrails
AWS Control Tower now supports operational concurrency for all guardrail types, preventive or detective. With this new release you can now enable or disable multiple preventive guardrails without needing to wait for individual guardrail operations to complete. AWS Control Tower provides customers with out-of-the-box preventive and detective guardrails that you can deploy to increase your […]