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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 […]
GCP – Get more insights with the new version of the Node.js library
We’re thrilled to announce the release of a new update to the Cloud Logging Library for Node.js with the key new features of improved error handling and writing structured logging to standard output which becomes handy if you run applications in serverless environments like Google Functions! The latest v9.9.0 of Cloud Logging Library for Node.js […]
GCP – Built with BigQuery: Material Security’s novel approach to protecting email
Editor’s note: The post is part of a series highlighting our awesome partners, and their solutions, that are Built with BigQuery. Since the very first email was sent more than 50 years ago, the now-ubiquitous communication tool has evolved into more than just an electronic method of communication. Businesses have come to rely on it […]
GCP – Run your fault-tolerant workloads cost-effectively with Google Cloud Spot VMs, now GA
Available in GA today, you can now begin deploying Spot VMs in your Google Cloud projects to start saving now. For an overview of Spot VMs, see our Preview launch blog and for a deeper dive, check out our Spot VM documentation. Modern applications such as microservices, containerized workloads, and horizontal scalable applications are engineered […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Jira connector to enable document search on JIRA repository
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. Amazon customers can now use The Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index documents from Atlassian Jira. Read More for the details.