Welcome to above the clouds
GCP – Introductory Google Cloud computing training for students now available on edX
Google Cloud has a new partnership with edX, a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. and have launched a new Professional Certificate program on the platform. This new program will provide millions of learners with the skills needed to prepare for high-growth entry level cloud roles. It builds foundational cloud skills and prepares […]
GCP – ANZ Bank turns to Apigee to execute a secure and compliant API strategy
ANZ Bank is one of Australia’s top four banks and the largest bank in New Zealand by market capitalization. Headquartered in Melbourne, Victoria, we operate in more than 32 markets across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, Pacific, Europe, America and the Middle East. Our Payment team deals with all payment transaction types by providing highly secure, […]
GCP – Using Vertex AI to build an industry leading Peer Group Benchmarking solution
The modern world of financial markets is fraught with volatility and uncertainty. Market participants and members are rethinking the way they approach problems and rapidly changing the way they do business. Access to models, usage patterns, and data has become key to keeping up with ever evolving markets. One of the biggest challenges firms face […]
GCP – Year in review: What Chrome browser brought to enterprises in 2022
It’s hard to believe that 2022 is almost over. As the year wraps up, we wanted to do a quick recap of all of the improvements we made to Chrome for our enterprise customers this year. As more work is being done on the web, it’s crucial for enterprises to have a browser that fits […]
GCP – Efficient PyTorch training with Vertex AI
Vertex AI provides flexible and scalable hardware and secured infrastructure to train PyTorch based deep learning models with pre-built containers and custom containers. For model training with large amounts of data, using the distributed training paradigm and reading data from Cloud Storage is the best practice. However, training with data on the cloud such as […]
GCP – Centralized Multi Cluster Ingress with Anthos Service Mesh
We have never seen a proliferation of open source products sparked by a tool like we have seen with Kubernetes. These building blocks are what make Kubernetes the de facto container orchestrator to securely and reliably run services. Since organizations don’t run Kubernetes on its own, Kubernetes is more often than not deployed alongside other […]
AWS – Amazon EKS add-ons now supports advanced configuration
Amazon EKS now supports advanced configuration of cluster add-ons, enabling you to customize add-on properties to help you meet performance, compliance, or additional requirements not handled by default settings. Configuration can be applied to add-ons either during cluster creation or at any time after the cluster is created. Amazon EKS now supports configuration for the […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra now available in Asia-Pacific (Mumbai) AWS region
Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra to build intelligent search applications in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Building bridges (and ships!): Google Public Sector helps the U.S. Navy better collaborate
With a global, always-on workforce, the U.S. Navy requires secure collaboration between teams across countries and time zones. This is especially relevant for the 50,000 U.S. Navy sailors deployed aboard approximately 100 ships at any given time, who need to connect with personnel at regional shipyards for everything from routine maintenance, to more serious ship […]
AWS – SageMaker Data Wrangler now auto-generates feature-level visualizations
Today, we are excited to announce the release of automatically generated feature-level visualizations in Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler. Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler reduces the time it takes to aggregate and prepare data for machine learning (ML) from weeks to minutes. With Data Wrangler, you can simplify the process of data preparation and feature engineering, and […]
