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AWS – Amazon Polly adds new male Neural TTS voices in 4 languages
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of 4 male Neural TTS voices: Liam for Canadian French, Arthur for UK English, Daniel for German and Pedro for US Spanish. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Glue Streaming ETL now supports auto-decompression
AWS Glue streaming ETL (Extract Transform and Load) can now detect compressed data streaming from Amazon Kinesis, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), and self managed Apache Kafka. It can then automatically decompresses this data without customers having to write code, saving them development hours. AWS Glue Streaming ETL jobs continuously consume data […]
GCP – Introducing Google Public Sector
Google Cloud has a long history of supporting and working with the governments in many different parts of the world, including the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, and Japan. We’ve helped government agencies modernize their core technology systems; transformed the way in which they deliver services via digital platforms to citizens; delivered security […]
Azure – Generally available: Export device data under an organization in Azure IoT Central
Azure IoT Central data export feature now supports the ability to filter data under an organization as well as include organizations path in the exported data. Read More for the details.
GCP – Incorporating quota regression detection into your release pipeline
On Google Cloud, one of the ways an organization may want to enforce fairness in how much of a resource can be consumed is through the use of quotas. Limiting resource consumption on services is one way that companies can better manage their cloud costs. Oftentimes, people associate quotas with APIs to access that said […]
GCP – Now in preview, BigQuery BI Engine Preferred Tables
Earlier in the quarter we had announced that BigQuery BI Engine support for all BI and custom applications was generally available. Today we are excited to announce the preview launch of Preferred Tables support in BigQuery BI Engine! BI Engine is an in-memory analysis service that helps customers get low latency performance for their queries […]
GCP – Billing info is at your fingertips in the latest Cloud Console mobile app
Cloud billing is an important part of managing your cloud resources, and understanding your cloud spend estimates or accessing invoices is critical for many businesses. Thus far, the best way to check your billing information has been to use the Google Cloud Console from your favorite web browser. But Google Cloud users tell us that […]
GCP – Announcing general availability of Cloud Armor’s new edge security policies, and support for proxy load balancers
Whether workloads are deployed in public clouds, on-premises, or other infrastructure providers, DDoS and Layer 7 attacks target all web applications, APIs, and services. That’s why Google Cloud continues to expand our scope of DDoS and web application firewall (WAF) protection for web applications, APIs, and services with Google Cloud Armor, so customers can defend […]
GCP – Introducing new Cloud Armor features including rate limiting, adaptive protection, and bot defense
As cyberattacks grow in complexity and intensity against cloud customers, they need their cloud providers to play an even more active role in the resiliency of their web applications and APIs. Attacks have evolved from isolated DDoS attempts to far more comprehensive and coordinated techniques, including volumetric flood DDoS attacks, bot attacks, and API abuse. […]
AWS – AWS Support announces an improved create case experience
As of today, you can experience the new interface for creating support cases in the AWS Support Center console. When you create a case, Support Center can better anticipate and understand your issue by capturing your case details. Support Center can then provide targeted and specific remediation, such as answers to frequently asked questions and […]