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AWS – Amazon Braket now supports adjoint gradient computation, unlocking runtime improvements and cost savings
SV1, the on-demand state vector simulator on Amazon Braket, now supports the computation of gradients using the adjoint differentiation method, enabling customers to reduce runtime and save costs for their quantum machine learning and optimization workloads. With this launch, customers simulating variational quantum algorithms with a large number of parameters, such as the quantum approximate optimization algorithm […]
AWS – Announcing preview of SageMaker Model Training support for ml.p4de instances
Amazon SageMaker model training now supports preview of ml.p4de.24xlarge(p4de) instances, powered by NVIDIA A100 GPUs and high-performance HBM2e GPU memory. These instances provide the highest performing compute infrastructure currently available for use cases that require training of large language models (LLMs), computer vision (object detection, semantic segmentation) and generative artificial intelligence. Read More for the […]
AWS – Announcing Global Free Tier Pricing Rules for AWS Billing Conductor
Starting today, customers can now disable Always Free Tier offers when creating a global pricing rule in AWS Billing Conductor (ABC). Pricing rules with free tier disabled allow customers to default to the first paid tier for all AWS services. For example, AWS partners can use a global pricing rule with free tier disabled to […]
GCP – Google Cloud partners with American Legion in California to help veterans build cloud computing skills
Today, the American Legion Department of California announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to connect 500 California veterans with no-cost access to Google Cloud Skills Boost. This new collaborative effort will help train, upskill, and provide credentials to veterans in cloud computing skills – creating pathways to technical, in-demand jobs. As companies, nonprofits, and […]
GCP – How NTUC created a centralized Data Portal for frictionless access to data across business lines
As a network of social businesses, NTUC Enterprise is on a mission to harness the capabilities of its multiple units to meet pressing social needs in areas like healthcare, childcare, daily essentials, cooked food, and financial services. Serving over two million customers annually, we seek to enable and empower everyone in Singapore to live better […]
GCP – How to build comprehensive customer financial profiles with Elastic Cloud and Google Cloud
Financial institutions have vast amounts of data about their customers. However, many of them struggle to leverage data to their advantage. Data may be sitting in silos or trapped on costly mainframes. Customers may only have access to a limited quantity of data, or service providers may need to search through multiple systems of record […]
GCP – How StreamNative facilitates integrated use of Apache Pulsar through Google Cloud
StreamNative, a company founded by the original developers of Apache Pulsar and Apache BookKeeper, is partnering Google Cloud to build a streaming platform on open source technologies. We are dedicated to helping businesses generate maximum value from their enterprise data by offering effortless ways to realize real-time data streaming. Following the release of StreamNative Cloud […]
GCP – IT prediction: the vast majority of security operations workloads will be automated
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 #3: By 2025, 90% of security operations workflows will be automated and managed as code There is not enough funding, […]
GCP – Google Maps Platform Hackathon Winners Announced
In September, we launched the Google Maps Platform hackathon on Devpost. We were blown away by the creativity of the projects submitted. Over 2,600 participants spanning 100+ countries joined to build something they’re passionate about and created unique experiences using Google Maps Platform. Thanks to all the participants and judges that made this hackathon one […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now supports Metric Math for Target Tracking Policies
EC2 Auto Scaling customers can now use Amazon CloudWatch Metric Math to customize the metrics they use with Target Tracking policy without actually having to publish and pay for customized metrics. Customers can use both arithmetic operators (such as +, -, /, and *) and mathematical functions (such as Sum and Average) to easily create […]