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Azure – General availability: Announcing the release of Swiss German dialect speech recognition support
Microsoft speech service just released the de-CH locale that recognizes Swiss dialects as well as standard German as part of our speech to text offering. This enables the creation of smart speech solutions tailored to Switzerland’s market needs. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Maps Geolocation Service is now generally available
Develop customized geolocation-based content and services with Azure Maps Geolocation. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps September 2021 updates
With September updates, we added support for wild cards and conditional expressions in YAML pipeline files. In addition, we included multiple improvements to Delivery Plans. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Textract extends support for AWS PrivateLink to AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Starting today, Amazon Textract now extends support for AWS PrivateLink to both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Customers can now access Amazon Textract from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) in AWS GovCloud (US) without using public IPs and without requiring the traffic to traverse across the Internet. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon EC2 Hibernation adds support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Amazon EC2 now supports Hibernation for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS operating system. Hibernation allows you to pause your EC2 Instances and resume them at a later time, rather than fully terminating and restarting them. Resuming your instance lets your applications continue from where they left off so that you don’t have to restart your OS and […]
GCP – Unlocking the hidden value of data: Launching Dataflow Templates for Elastic Cloud
A key strategic priority for many customers that we work with is to unlock the value of the data they already have. Up to 73%of all data within an enterprise goes unused for analytics. “Dark data” is a commonly used term to refer to this and industry observers believe that most enterprises are only leveraging […]
GCP – How much can you save by migrating legacy apps to Google Cloud? Forrester does the math
Migrating expensive operating systems and traditional workloads to Google Cloud can help organizations reduce data center costs while improving performance and uptime. In addition, organizations can work with Google Cloud and its partners to further modernize those workloads, resulting in additional licensing savings, and avoiding cumbersome licensing audits by legacy enterprise software vendors. To better […]
GCP – Find your GKE cost optimization opportunities right in the console
It doesn’t matter whether you have one Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster or a thousand, whether they’re all GKE standard clusters or autopilot, whether you’re the only person working on infrastructure, or are part of a larger team—knowing how to optimize your clusters for high performance and low cost is the key to success on […]
AWS – AWS IoT Events is available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region
AWS IoT Events is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region, extending the footprint to 13 AWS regions. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Supports New Minor Versions 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23; Amazon RDS on Outposts Supports New PostgreSQL Minor Versions 13.4 and 12.8
Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database, we have added support in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.4, 12.8, 11.13, 10.18, and 9.6.23. We have also added support in Amazon RDS on Outposts for PostgreSQL minor versions 13.4 and 12.8. This release closes security vulnerabilities in PostgreSQL and […]