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GCP – Vaccinating a nation: Vaccination app delivery in 30 days with Cloud Spanner
As the most specialized provider of cloud computing solutions in Poland, Chmura Krajowa (OChK) works to accelerate the digital transformation of Polish businesses and public institutions. In November 2020, the Polish government handed us a formidable challenge: starting from scratch and within 30 days, design and deploy an application to help vaccinate every citizen in […]
GCP – Data visibility challenges? Manufacturer Spotlight ’22 is coming May 5
At Google Cloud, our mission is to accelerate manufacturers’ digital transformation by bridging data silos, and turning every engineer into a data scientist with easy-to-use AI technologies and an industry data platform. Manufacturers across all domains, from discrete manufacturing to energy and supply chain, are adopting Google’s products and purpose-built industry solutions because of their […]
GCP – 24/7 Carbon-Free Energy: Powering up new clean energy projects across the globe
Back in 2010, Google signed its first-ever agreement to purchase 114 MW of wind power in Iowa. This deal made us an early pioneer of corporate power purchase agreements (PPAs) — contracts to purchase renewable energy directly from developers on the same grids where we operate our data centers. Having achieved 100% annual renewable energy […]
AWS – Amazon Neptune now supports global condition keys in AWS IAM policies
You can now customize your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies that control access to your Amazon Neptune resources, like Neptune clusters or instances, with AWS global condition context keys. You can use AWS global condition context keys, which are specified in the Condition element of an IAM policy, to allow or disallow access […]
AWS – EC2 Auto Scaling now lets you set a default instance warm-up time for all instance scaling and replacement actions
You can now set a default instance warm-up time for all scaling activities, health check replacements, and other replacement events in the Auto Scaling instance lifecycle. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling is a service that allows you to automatically scale and manage logical groups of instances, known as Auto Scaling groups, that serve your application. EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon Personalize now supports starting and stopping recommenders
Amazon Personalize now gives you more control over your resources by allowing you to stop and start recommenders. Amazon Personalize enables developers to improve customer engagement through personalized product and content recommendations – no ML expertise required. A recommender is a resource that is optimized for specific use cases, such as “Frequently bought together” for […]
Azure – Generally available: Rehydrate an archived blob to a different storage account
Segregate your backup data in different storage accounts with Archive across-accounts copy. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing Migration Hub Orchestrator, a new migration orchestration feature in AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub now helps you orchestrate the migration of applications to AWS with the new Migration Hub Orchestrator feature. The scope of large migration projects generally involves selecting migration tools, step-by-step planning, and tracking the migration process across different tools and teams. Migration Hub Orchestrator provides predefined and customizable workflow templates that offer a […]
GCP – Build Voice AI into your apps with our top 3 Speech API codelabs
With voice-controlled touchpoints becoming more and more the norm in human-computer interactions, our Speech-to-Text (STT) API is a great option for developers looking to build voice into their applications. The API processes over 1 billion spoken minutes of speech each month, enough to transcribe all Presidential inauguration speeches in U.S. history over 1 million times. […]
AWS – AWS Announces General Availability of openCypher support for Amazon Neptune
Today, AWS announces the general availability of openCypher query language support with Amazon Neptune. Customers can now use openCypher with Amazon Neptune, giving them more choices to build or migrate graph applications to a highly available, secure, and fully managed graph database. Read More for the details.