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AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Slack Connector to enable Slack messaging search
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use the Amazon Kendra Slack Connector to index and search messages from Slack. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS GameKit for Unreal Game Engine is now Generally Available
Today we are releasing AWS GameKit, a new solution that allows game developers to deploy and customize game backend features directly from Unreal Engine. AWS GameKit comes with AWS CloudFormation templates for each feature that follows AWS Solution Architect designs. AWS GameKit also comes with an integration code between the game backend features and Unreal […]
AWS – Now in Preview – Amazon GameSparks
We are happy to announce the preview of Amazon GameSparks, a managed AWS service that provides game developers with features for building, running, and scaling the backend for their games without having to manage servers or low-level cloud primitives. Amazon GameSparks makes building a game backend easy for game developers who have little to no […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches Groups Management UI
Amazon QuickSight now supports native groups management with an interactive user interface. With this change, administrators can efficiently and easily administer and govern user groups via the QuickSight admin console. They can create and manage groups and manage users membership within groups. Groups Management UI is available to administrators with access to the QuickSight admin console […]
AWS – AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo directive to iterate on GraphQL APIs without manual data migrations
AWS Amplify announces the new @mapsTo GraphQL directive, enabling developers to iterate and rename their GraphQL models without worrying about data migration. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud. With Amplify’s GraphQL Transformer, developers can configure their backend data model using the GraphQL […]
AWS – Amazon ECS now supports warm pools for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to help applications scale out faster and save costs by using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Auto Scaling Warm Pools with their Amazon ECS clusters. Warm Pools allow customers to create a pool of pre-initialized Amazon EC2 instances that are ready to quickly serve application […]
GCP – Celebrating Women in Tech: Highlighting Symbl.ai
Editor’s note: In the US, the UK and Australia, March is celebrated as Women’s History Month. Here at Google, we’re excited to celebrate women from all backgrounds and are committed to increasing the number of women in the technology industry. Over the next few weeks, we will shine a spotlight on women-led startups and how […]
GCP – Save big by temporarily suspending unneeded Compute Engine VMs—now GA
One of the best aspects of the cloud is the ability to purchase and use only what you need. This enables you to take advantage of modern and performant computing while fine tuning cost optimization. With Suspend/Resume, Generally Available today, you have even more control over your Google Cloud resource consumption. Similar to […]
AWS – AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag based access controls
AWS Cost Categories now supports resource and tag-based access controls for easy management and access to cost categories. You can define AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to specify fine-grained permissions for AWS Cost Categories based on resource names and tags, improving governance and information security through these two granular access control features. Read […]
GCP – Meet AI’s multitool: Vector embeddings
Embeddings are one of the most versatile techniques in machine learning, and a critical tool every ML engineer should have in their toolbelt. It’s a shame, then, that so few of us understand what they are and what they’re good for! The problem, perhaps, is that embeddings sound slightly abstract and esoteric: In machine learning, […]