Cloud Data Science 9

Lots of announcements this week, so without delay, let’s get right to Cloud Data Science 9.

News

• Google Announces Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server
  Google’s Cloud SQL now supports SQL Server in addition to PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Google Opens a new Cloud Region
  Located in Salt Lake City, Utah, it is named us-west3. They are promoting it as the Silicon Slopes region, so that is good news if you or your customers are near that location.
• Women in Data Science Livestream
  This is a conference with a ton a great speakers. The livestream is free and available on the Data Science 101 blog. The event is Monday, March 2, 2020 at 9am PST.
• Azure Sphere for IoT security goes GA
  This is a comprehensive security solution for IoT. It is now generally available (GA).
• Microsoft retires MCSA, MCSD, and MCSE certifications
  Microsoft has gone to more role-based certifications, so these legacy certs are going away.
• Amazon Transcribe can now remove PII
  Amazon Trascribe is a speech recognition service and it now provides the ability to automatically remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII). This is cool and helpful.
• AWS Deep Learning Containers Updated
  They now have the latest versions of Tensorflow (1.15.2, 2.0.1, & 2.1.0), PyTorch 1.4.0, and MXNet 1.6.0

Thank You

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