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GCP – Tell us about your Cloud Architecture dreams
Whether you are new to Google Cloud or an existing customer running thousands of workloads, one of the most common questions we get is, “How would Google architect and design my environment?” The answer to this question would truly be a dream come true, right? Just to set expectations, we won’t answer that here. This […]

GCP – Moving to Log Analytics for BigQuery export users
If you’ve already centralized your log analysis on BigQuery as your single pane of glass for logs & events…congratulations! You’re already benefiting from BigQuery’s: Petabyte-scale cost-effective analytics, Analyzing heterogeneous data across multi-cloud & hybrid environments, Running on fully-managed serverless data warehouse with enterprise security features, Democratizing analytics for everyone using standard familiar SQL with extensions. […]

GCP – IDC Report: Driving business value with Google Workspace
At Google Workspace, we believe flexible, modern tools that put people at the center of the experience are critical to helping employees and teams innovate and get things done. We recently commissioned IDC to interview eight of our largest global customers and complete an in-depth analysis to better understand the business value they’re generating from […]

GCP – How our commitment to open source unlocks AI and ML innovation
At Google, we believe anyone should be able to quickly and easily turn their artificial intelligence (AI) idea into reality. Open source software (OSS) has become increasingly important to this goal, heavily influencing the pace of innovation in AI and machine learning (ML) ecosystems. Over the last two decades, ML has transformed Google services including […]

GCP – Querying Firestore in the Cloud Console
Power up your Firestore queries in the console: we’re excited to announce the launch of the new query builder, adding several major enhancements to the experience. You can now visually construct queries using all the power of the Firestore SDK—query collections or collection groups using multiple WHERE clauses, equalities, and comparison operators. Query results are […]

GCP – Google Cloud to power AppLovin’s next phase of growth with leading cloud infrastructure and services
Innovative companies are using cloud technology to transform the way they build their products and services, attract new customers and deliver products at scale. This ultimately will grow their market position. The ability to build on Google Cloud is creating entirely new opportunities for innovation, and today I’m excited to highlight one such customer, AppLovin, […]

AWS – IAM Access Analyzer now reviews your AWS CloudTrail history to identify actions used across 140 AWS services and generates fine-grained policies
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer policy generation has expanded support to identify actions used from over 140 services to help developers create fine-grained policies based on their AWS CloudTrail access activity. New additions include actions from services such as AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Simple Queue Service. When developers request a […]

AWS – Amazon Translate now adds formality customization support for Dutch, Korean, and Mexican Spanish
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Today, we are adding formality customization support for Dutch, Korean, and Mexican Spanish. We are also adding support for asynchronous batch translation. Now you can customize the formality of your translated output to suit your communication needs. Read […]

AWS – Announcing the general availability of AWS Local Zones in Delhi and Taipei
AWS Local Zones are now available in Delhi and Taipei. You can now use these AWS Local Zones to deliver applications that require single-digit millisecond latency or local data processing. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Clarify now can provide near real-time explanations for ML predictions
We’re excited to announce that Amazon SageMaker Clarify supports online explainability by providing explanations for machine learning (ML) model’s individual predictions in near real-time on live endpoints. SageMaker Clarify gives ML developers greater visibility into their training data and models so they can identify potential bias and explain predictions. ML models may consider some feature […]