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AWS – Amazon Textract launches TIFF support and adds asynchronous support for receipts and invoices processing
Amazon Textract now supports Tag Image File Format (TIFF) documents in addition to the PNG, JPEG, and PDF formats. Customers can now process TIFF documents either synchronously or asynchronously using any of the following Amazon Textract APIs – DetectDocumentText, StartDocumentAnalysis, StartDocumentTextDetection, AnalyzeDocument, and AnalyzeExpense. Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts printed […]
AWS – Introducing Amazon EC2 Spot placement score
Today, we are introducing Amazon EC2 Spot placement score to help you find the optimal location for your Spot workloads. Spot Instances availability varies depending on the instance type, time of day, Region, and Availability Zone. Until now there was no way to find an optimal Region or Availability Zone to fulfill your Spot capacity […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 announces attribute-based instance type selection for Auto Scaling groups, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet
Starting today, you can request EC2 capacity based on your workload’s instance requirements. Attribute-based instance type selection, a new feature for Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet, makes it easy to create and maintain instance fleets without researching and selecting EC2 instance types. This is useful for running instance type flexible workloads […]
AWS – The Amazon Chime SDK now supports push notifications
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Starting today, the Amazon Chime SDK supports iOS and Android push notifications via Amazon Pinpoint for messages sent through Amazon Chime SDK messaging channels. With push notifications, a developer using Amazon Chime SDK messaging […]
GCP – Cloud Domains, now GA, makes it easy to register and manage custom domains
In February, we announced Cloud Domains, which makes it easy for Google Cloud customers to register new domains. Today, we’re excited to announce that Cloud Domains is in general availability. We created Cloud Domains with the goal of simplifying domain-related tasks, and we’ve continued to build on the initial release with new functionality. Click to […]
AWS – Announcing AWS SAM Accelerate – quickly test code changes against the cloud (public preview)
The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) announces a public preview of AWS SAM Accelerate. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications. SAM Accelerate is a new capability of SAM CLI that makes it faster and easier for developers to test code […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Data Explorer Insights
Azure Data Explorer Insights provides comprehensive monitoring of your clusters by delivering a unified view of your cluster performance, usage, ingestion operations, cache, and more. Read More for the details.
GCP – 3D Images Come Alive through Visby’s Vision and Expertise
Anyone who has received a product that looks different than a photo on an app, or realized that a home on a website doesn’t look quite the same in real life, knows that online images can be misleading. We are visual beings so flat, 2D images don’t tell us the whole story. We also get […]
GCP – Decoding Cloud FinOps to accelerate digital transformation
Accelerating digital transformation Digital transformation is what propels businesses and industries forward. Organizations of all sizes—from startups to global enterprises—focus on digital transformation not only to make scaled improvements, but also to drive significant change and fully embrace the digital age. The pandemic has jump started and pushed many organizations into full gear to digitize […]
GCP – Meet the next generation of mobile-optimized maps
A customized map can be key to delivering a frictionless experience that engages users and sets you apart in users’ minds–whether you’re a real estate company fine-tuning points of interest (POIs) on a map to help buyers decide where to live, or a regional pharmacy styling a map to ensure your locations stand out from […]