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GCP – Automate identity document processing with Document AI
How many times have you filled out forms requesting personal information? It’s probably too many times to count. When online and signed in, you can save a lot of time thanks to your browser’s autofill feature. In other cases, you often have to provide the same data manually, again and again. The first Document AI […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for multi-lingual audio
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Today, we are excited to announce automatic language identification support for multi-lingual audio in batch mode. If your audio recording contains more than one language, you can enable multi-language identification, which identifies all languages […]
GCP – Google Cloud enables inclusive financial services with Black-owned business initiative
In June of 2020, Sundar Pichai outlined a number of commitments Google will make to racial equity, starting with the Black+ community in the United States. As part of this initiative, we formed a team at Google Cloud to help black entrepreneurs accelerate the growth of their businesses with cloud technology. Racial equity is inextricably […]
GCP – “Take that leap of faith” Meet the Googler helping customers create financial inclusion
What brought you to Google? Honestly, the opportunity fell in my lap. I had just graduated from NYU with an MS in business ops and hospitality, and a staffing agency for Google reached out—they were looking for hospitality majors to support recruitment, hosting an engineer for the day as they walked through their interview process. […]
AWS – Announcing Metered Billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs
We are announcing the launch of metered billing for AWS Data Exchange for APIs, which gives data providers the ability to license APIs to subscribers on a pay-as-you-go basis. AWS Data Exchange for APIs enables customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party API products listed on AWS Data Exchange. This new feature allows data […]
Azure – General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics
The new Lasv3 and Lsv3 VM series are well suited for high throughput and high IOPS workloads including big data applications, SQL and NoSQL databases, data intensive applications and more. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Manage Azure Web Application Firewall policies in Azure Firewall Manager
Azure Firewall Manager now supports the ability to manage Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) policies for application delivery platforms, Application Gateway, and Azure Front Door, at scale within a centralized place. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Conversational language understanding
Conversational language understanding includes multilingual transformer-based models as the underlying model architecture and results in significant accuracy improvements over its predecessor, LUIS. Read More for the details.
Azure – Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI
Perfect for a range of AI workloads, this new virtual machines series can give you a significant performance boost over our previous NC generation series. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance now available for purchase through resellers
AWS Storage Gateway is expanding the ways you can purchase the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, and for the first-time enabling resellers to offer the appliance. Now you can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of your choice, and leverage your existing purchasing agreements. Read More for the details.