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Azure – Azure Scheduler will be retired on 31 January 2022
Transition to Azure Log Apps before 31 January 2022. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports automatic language identification for streaming transcriptions
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 for streaming transcriptions. Until now, you were required to manually identify the dominant language in order to use Transcribe streaming APIs. You can now simply […]
AWS – Announcing data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis
You can now use data tiering for Amazon ElastiCache for Redis as a lower cost way to scale your clusters to up to hundreds of terabytes of capacity. Data tiering provides a new price-performance option for Redis workloads by utilizing lower-cost solid state drives (SSDs) in each cluster node in addition to storing data in […]
AWS – New data mangement APIs for Amazon FinSpace
Amazon FinSpace now provides data management APIs that allow customers to work with data in their Amazon FinSpace environment using the AWS SDK and CLI. With these new APIs, customers can add steps to their automated workflows that manage their data resources in Amazon FinSpace. Using the new APIs, customers can create Amazon FinSpace datasets, […]
GCP – Illicit coin mining, ransomware, APTs target cloud users in first Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons report
At Google we have an immense aperture into the global cybersecurity threat landscape and the means to mitigate risks that stem from those threats. With our recently launched Google Cybersecurity Action Team, we are bringing more of our security abilities and advisory services to our customers to increase their defenses. A big part of this […]
Azure – In development: New planned datacenter region in Belgium (Belgium Central)
Microsoft has announced plans to bring a new datacenter region to Belgium, including Availability Zones. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Connect now supports contact flow modules to simplify repeatable logic
Amazon Connect now supports modules to simplify the creation and management of repeatedly used contact flow logic. Contact flow modules are a set of user defined blocks centrally managed in an Amazon Connect instance that can be referenced in multiple contact flows. For example, a customer may want to perform the same steps of identifying […]
GCP – Can you make OpenStack more interesting to cloud natives? Here’s how!
In this blog post I highlight how you can accelerate your application modernization journey by taking advantage of Anthos on bare metal’s support for running on OpenStack. I also introduce the recently published “Deploy Anthos on bare metal on OpenStack” and “Configure the OpenStack Cloud Provider for Kubernetes” guides. I point to different starting points […]
GCP – Join us for Google Cloud Security Talks: Zero Trust edition
Join us for our final Google Cloud Security Talks of 2021, a live online event on December 15th, where we’ll focus on all things zero trust. During this multi-session digital event, learn how you can leverage a zero trust approach to protect your employees, users, and critical information, with sessions including the following: A keynote […]
GCP – Empowering DevOps to foster customer loyalty in modern retail with MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud
Consumer demands are becoming more complex, driven by high expectations for personalized experiences that strike the right chord at the perfect time. One study from McKinsey found thatnearly three-quarters of consumers demand personalization when interacting with retailers. Retailers old and new of any size must embrace the challenges head on and learn to capture customer […]