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AWS – AWS Panorama now supports Amazon CloudWatch alarms for application errors
You can now configure Amazon CloudWatch alarms to detect when your AWS Panorama application encounters errors. These CloudWatch alarms can help to identify emergent performance and operational issues, enabling you to troubleshoot quickly and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Panorama now supports the ability to bring your own machine learning libraries
You can now run models and algorithms from TensorFlow, PyTorch, and OpenCV directly on the AWS Panorama Appliance GPU for low-latency use cases, such as object tracking, traffic analysis, and worker safety. AWS Panorama also supports models optimized with Nvidia TensorRT or any machine learning library with Nvidia CUDA support. Nvidia TensorRT can double the […]

AWS – AWS Panorama applications now support receiving inbound messages over the local area network
You can now configure your AWS Panorama application to receive inbound messages over the local area network, which you can use to start, stop, or adjust your AWS Panorama application. For example, you can run an ML model to visually detect paint defects when a vehicle crosses a gate on the production line. You can […]

AWS – Amazon Polly now offers Neural TTS voices in Catalan and Mexican Spanish
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of two voices: a Neural version of Mia, Polly’s Mexican Spanish female text to speech (TTS) voice and Arlet, a new Catalan Neural voice. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Service Catalog announces a new console feature to directly access resources within a Provisioned Product
Today, AWS Service Catalog is releasing a feature that helps to simplify builders’ access to the resources associated with their Provisioned Products. Previously, customers had to manually navigate through the AWS console to find a specific resource. With this feature, they can easily locate and access the resource of a provisioned product, right in the […]

GCP – Google Cloud Certification success story: Meet Gabby
Setting a goal of achieving a certification is a personal and professional milestone! Each journey to certification is different though and it is dependent on many factors such as prior experience, exposure to technology, motivation, and more. This month we’d like to feature one particular journey of our colleague Gabby – Customer Engineer, Application Modernization […]

Azure – Generally available: Azure Data Explorer supports multiple databases per data connection
Dynamically route Azure Data Explorer data to an alternate database Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: Intelligent cache for Apache Spark in Azure Synapse
Accelerate Apache Spark in Azure Synapse execution speed using the new intelligent cache feature. Read More for the details.

Azure – Public preview: User-assigned managed identities in Stream Analytics
You can now use user-assigned managed identity to authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to inputs and outputs without ever having to worry about credential management. Read More for the details.
GCP – The key role ‘visibility’ plays in healthcare’s cybersecurity resilience
When technology just works, it’s easy to trust. But too often, we place our trust in technology that doesn’t deserve it. When we do this with technology to provide healthcare, we put the safety of patients and the security and reliability of our global healthcare system at risk. The institutions that make up our global […]