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Azure – Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SageMaker adds ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for model deployment
Amazon SageMaker expands access to new ML instances so customers can deploy models on the best instance for their workloads. Now, customers can use ml.g5, ml.p4d, and ml.c6i instances for Asynchronous and Real-time model deployment options. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
Starting today, you can use Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript is now generally available
We are excited to announce the general availability of AWS Lambda Powertools for TypeScript, an open-source developer library to help you incorporate Well-Architected Serverless best practices into your Lambda function code as early and as fast as possible. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-compatible edition now supports R6i instances
Amazon Aurora now supports R6i instances powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. R6i instances are the 6th generation of Amazon EC2 memory optimized instances, designed for memory-intensive workloads. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources […]
GCP – How to run SAP on Google Cloud when high availability is high priority
Over the past couple of years, businesses across every industry have faced unexpected challenges in keeping their enterprise IT systems safe, secure, and available to users. Many have experienced sudden spikes or drops in demand for their products and services and most are now operating in a hybrid work environment. In such changing conditions, with […]
GCP – Moving data from the mainframe to the cloud made easy
IBM mainframes have been around since the 1950s and are still vital for many organizations. In recent years many companies that rely on mainframes have been working towards migrating to the cloud. This is motivated by the need to stay relevant, the increasing shortage of mainframe experts and the cost savings offered by cloud solutions. […]
GCP – Performance considerations for loading data into BigQuery
It is not unusual for customers to load very large data sets into their enterprise data warehouse. Whether you are doing an initial data ingestion with hundreds of TB of data or incrementally loading from your systems of record, performance of bulk inserts is key to quicker insights from the data. The most common architecture […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports increased limits to improve the accuracy of your models
Amazon SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning enables you to find the most accurate version of a machine learning (ML) model by finding the optimal set of hyperparameter configurations for your dataset. SageMaker Automatic Model Tuning now supports increased limits for two service quotas, with up to 50% higher number of total training jobs that can be […]
GCP – Debugging cloud spanner latency using OpenCensus and Go client library
You may have faced a situation where your client reported high latency while your Cloud Spanner metrics didn’t show the corresponding latency. This article describes a case study of increased client side latency caused by session pool exhaustion and how you can diagnose the situation by using OpenCensus features and Cloud Spanner client library for […]