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AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is now available in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) AWS Region. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Rekognition launches Face APIs version 6 for improved accuracy
Customers use Amazon Rekognition Face APIs to analyze faces within images and videos at scale without requiring any machine learning expertise. This enables use cases, such as identity verification, photo search, and media analysis. Amazon Rekognition has launched Face APIs version 6 to deliver higher accuracy for the face detection, comparison, and search features. Additionally, face […]

GCP – Now generally available: BigQuery BI Engine supports any BI tool or custom application
Customers who work with data warehouses, running BI on large datasets used to have to pick low latency but trading off freshness of data. With BigQuery BI Engine, they can accelerate their dashboards and reports that connect to BigQuery without having to sacrifice freshness of the data. Using the latest insights helps them make better […]

AWS – AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now available in Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon Lex now supports custom vocabulary
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Starting today, you can give Amazon Lex additional information about how to process speech input by creating a custom vocabulary. A custom vocabulary is a list of domain-specific terms or unique words (e.g., brand names, product names) that are […]

AWS – Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call
Amazon Connect now supports up to six participants on a customer service call, enabling you to add all of the parties necessary to efficiently resolve the contact. For example, to help close a mortgage transaction, an agent at a financial services company can add a mortgage broker, the customer’s spouse, a translator, and a supervisor […]

AWS – Amazon Interactive Video Service launches edge locations in Argentina and Chile
Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) announces its first points of presence (PoPs) in Argentina and Chile located in Buenos Aires and Santiago. The new edge locations will enable streamers and viewers based in Argentina and Chile to enjoy lower latency, better video quality, and increased capacity. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Control the minimum TLS version used with Azure Service Bus
To enforce stricter security measures, you can now configure your Service Bus namespace to require that clients send and receive data with a minimum version of TLS. Read More for the details.

AWS – The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale
The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device, powered by AWS Panorama, is now available for sale. Joining the existing AWS Panorama Appliance, the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE70 device provides customers with another choice in price and performance for computer vision use cases using AWS Panorama. Customers can work with AWS Panorama Partners to build a wide variety of […]
AWS – Amazon SageMaker Canvas adds new data preparation capabilities and usability updates
Amazon SageMaker Canvas visual point-and-click interface that enables business analysts to generate accurate ML predictions on their own — without requiring any machine learning experience or having to write a single line of code. SageMaker Canvas makes it easy to access and combine data from a variety of sources, automatically clean data and apply a […]