Tag: Pricing

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Location Service now offers request-based pricing for all customer use cases, including those with asset-based applications. For instance, if a developer building a delivery application needs to find the positions (latitude/longitude) associated with delivery addresses, they can pay per address searched. With Amazon Location, there are no upfront fees, no required minimum commitments, and no long-term contracts. Now it’s even easier for developers to add location awareness to their asset-based applications. Amazon Location Service is a fully managed service that helps developers easily and securely add maps, points of interest, geocoding, routing, tracking, and geofencing to their applications ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Aleksandar Kochovski; Cost is one of the most important things to consider when making a purchase, and that goes doubly so for services that you need to commit to for a long time. Cloud storage is one of those things that you really don’t want to change very often, so you need to make an informed decision before you make your purchase. This guide to cloud storage pricing will help you do just that. Key Takeaways: Cloud-based storage can vary in price, but it’s more important to compare the features each service offers and the value for ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Robin Barber; Backblaze has three products: the unlimited Personal and Business plans, and Backblaze B2, an IaaS cloud storage platform. All of them are really cheap, but we’ll go through the full Backblaze pricing structure so you can compare it to other providers. Key Takeaways: Backblaze Personal and Backblaze for Business use the same pricing structure.Backblaze B2 cloud storage uses a per-gigabyte payment model.All three products are among the cheapest backup services available. Backblaze is one of our favorite backup providers, and it’s easily the best unlimited backup provider. The reason for this is simply because it ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Trello is one of the best project management software options; its kanban board rocks and it has a long list of interesting extra features. Check out our Trello review for the details on what makes Trello great. In this article, we’ll go over Trello pricing to see if it’s worth it. The short answer is it depends. In a recent update, Trello greatly increased the offerings in its free plan, making it more attractive than ever. At the same time, it added new features to its paid plan and slotted in a cheaper version that ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rena Shah. Azure Files offers fully managed, simple, secure, and serverless enterprise-grade cloud file shares. On the Azure Files team, our mission is to expand Azure Files to more platforms and workloads. We recently took a huge step in workload expansion by announcing the general availability of our NFS v4.1 shares. This greatly expands the workloads you can run on Azure file shares by providing POSIX compatible file systems for Linux virtual machines and container-based workloads. This blog provides information on the general availability of NFS v4.1 shares, increased performance for all premium file shares, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a HIPAA-eligible natural language processing service that uses machine learning to extract health data from unstructured medical text accurately and quickly. Much of health data today is in free-form medical text like doctors’ notes, clinical trial reports, and patient health records. Manually extracting the data is a time consuming process that requires broad use of synonyms and nonstandard medical terms. As a result, data often remains unusable in large-scale analytics which is needed to advance healthcare and life sciences industry. Today Amazon Comprehend Medical added support for SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting November 9, 2021, Amazon Rekognition Image APIs pricing has been reduced by up to 38% in all 14 supported regions. This price reduction will automatically reflect in customer bills starting from November 2021. Previously, all Amazon Rekognition Image APIs had the following pricing tiers billed by monthly usage, aggregated across all APIs: AWS Free Tier of 5 thousand images per month, within the first 12 months of usage Tier 1 of up to 1 million images at $0.001 per image Tier 2 from 1 - 10 million images at $0.0008 per image Tier 3 from 10 - ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, AWS announced that customers can purchase Amazon Machine Image (AMI) and Container products from AWS Marketplace with one, two, or three-year contracts on supported products.  With this launch, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) can set upfront payment terms for any custom dimension on their product in AWS Marketplace. Customers have the option to purchase these products immediately from AWS Marketplace using monthly, annual and multi-year contracts. Customers can also upgrade their contract, buy additional licenses, or accept a privately negotiated price on any of the AMI and Container products that supports contract pricing model. Customers can distribute ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Antoine Savine. Deep Learning is picking momentum in Quantitative Finance, outside the obvious application to the prediction of asset prices (where to my knowledge it is not particularly effective) and spreading into the more serious application area of option pricing and risk management. These two recent papers clearly demonstrate the benefits of DL as a pricing technology alternative to the classical FDM and Monte-Carlo in certain contexts: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3288882 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3244821 These posts also explore the ideas of 'deep calibration' (application of DL to the calibration of financial models in a particularly interesting form) and 'deep analytics' ... Read More

Feed: Top Blog Posts. Author: Antoine Savine. Deep Learning is picking momentum in Quantitative Finance, outside the obvious application to the prediction of asset prices (where to my knowledge it is not particularly effective) and spreading into the more serious application area of option pricing and risk management. These two recent papers clearly demonstrate the benefits of DL as a pricing technology alternative to the classical FDM and Monte-Carlo in certain contexts: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3288882 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3244821 These posts also explore the ideas of 'deep calibration' (application of DL to the calibration of financial models in a particularly interesting form) and 'deep analytics' ... Read More