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AWS – Amazon FinSpace web and data access events now available in AWS CloudTrail
Amazon FinSpace now provides customers with additional user activity monitoring options through logging of web application and data access events to AWS CloudTrail. Amazon FinSpace is a managed analytic data hub for capital markets customers that enables analysts and data engineers to access data from multiple sources and transform it using FinSpace’s managed Apache Spark […]
AWS – Renate an open source python library for automatic model re-training
Today we announce the general availability of Renate, an open-source Python library for automatic model re-training. The library implements continual learning algorithms to train deep neural networks incrementally when new data becomes available. Read More for the details.
AWS – Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models, is now available
We are excited to announce the general availability of Fortuna, an open-source library for uncertainty quantification of ML models. Fortuna provides calibration methods, such as conformal prediction, that can be applied to any trained neural network to obtain calibrated uncertainty estimates. The library further supports a number of Bayesian inference methods that can be applied […]
AWS – Amazon EBS Snapshots Archive is now available in new Middle East, Europe, and Asia Pacific Regions
With the general availability of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) Snapshots Archive in AWS Middle East (UAE), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich), and Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) Regions, customers in these regions can save up to 75% on storage costs for Amazon EBS Snapshots that they rarely access and intend to retain for more than 90 days. Amazon […]
AWS – Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies
Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now supports VPC endpoint policies configured using Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required to scale and secure […]
GCP – Collateral IT: Optimizing HSBC asset allocation with Google Cloud
Have you ever heard of an optimization problem? Imagine you have a million marbles, all of different sizes, colors, patterns, and weights. You need to fill up 1,000 jars of different sizes with them, but each jar has restrictions as to which colors, patterns, and how many marbles of each type it can hold. After […]
GCP – IT prediction: Barriers between transactional and analytical workloads fall away
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series on IT predictions from Google Cloud experts. Check out the full list of our predictions on how IT will change in the coming years. Prediction: The barriers between transactional and analytical workloads will mostly disappear Traditionally, transactional and analytical workloads have had separate data architectures. […]
GCP – An Introduction to IPv6 on Google Cloud
It is no secret that the Internet Protocol (IP) standard’s IPv4 address scheme will eventually run out of IP addresses. Today’s technological advancements such as 5G, Internet of Things, mobile applications, connected devices, serverless and container-based services are accelerating an industry-wide move to IPv4’s successor, IPv6. Many enterprises are increasingly leaning towards IPv6 addressing for […]
GCP – How SolarWinds still affects supply chain threats, two years later
Our quarterly Security Talks series brings together experts from Google Cloud Security teams and the industry to share information on our latest security products, innovations and best practices. Below is an introduction to Mandiant’s Security Talks presentation on Dec. 7, Mandiant Tales from the Front Lines: Activate Cyber Defenses Against Supply Chain Compromise. The discovery […]
GCP – The Squire’s guide to automated deployments with Cloud Build
Audience: (Intermediate level) Targeting readers that have not yet interacted with Google Cloud before, but have engineering continuous integration, package management, beginner-level container and messaging experience. Requiring these individuals to have a pre-existing frontend application and supporting API server locally in place. Technologies: Cloud BuildCloud Build TriggersArtifact RegistryCloud RunPub/Sub Requirements before getting started: Functional client-side […]