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AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports resource tagging for better access control
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, you can assign tags to easily organize, track, or control access your resources. This can be used to allocate costs or get detailed billing reports across your Transcribe jobs. You can attach […]

GCP – Your Google Cloud database options, explained
Picking the right database for your application is not easy. The choice depends heavily on your use case—transactional processing, analytical processing, in-memory database, and so on—but it also depends on other factors. This post covers the different database options available within Google Cloud across relational (SQL) and non-relational (NoSQL) databases and explains which use cases […]

AWS – Amazon Polly launches Aria, a New Zealand English neural text-to-speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Aria, Polly’s first New Zealand English voice. Aria is a neural text-to-speech (NTTS) voice that is expressive, natural and easy to follow. Read More for the details.

AWS – Introducing the new AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency
Today, we announced the AWS Level 1 MSSP Competency to support AWS customers looking for AWS Partners with deep specialization and expertise protecting and monitoring essential AWS resources on behalf of their customers. Read More for the details.

GCP – Single-cell genomic analysis accelerated by NVIDIA on Google Cloud
In the past decade, the Healthcare and Life Sciences industry has enjoyed a boon in technological and scientific advancement. New insights and possibilities are revealed almost daily. At Google Cloud, driving innovation in cloud computing is in our DNA. Our team is dedicated to sharing ways Google Cloud can be used to accelerate scientific discovery. […]

Azure – Public preview: Apply settings inside machines using Azure Policy’s guest configuration
Azure Policy can audit or configure settings inside a machine, both for machines running in Azure and Arc-enabled hybrid machines. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure AD B2C redirect URL login.microsoftonline.com will be retired on 31 August 2022
Update apps using Azure AD B2C to new redirect b2clogin.com. Read More for the details.

Azure – Basic and Standard A-series VMs will retire on 31 August 2024
Migrate your Azure workloads to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.

Azure – Community support for PHP 7.3 is ending on 6 December 2021
Upgrade to PHP 7.4 before 6 December 2021. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Data Factory Compute Optimized data flows will be retired on 31 August 2024
Transition from Compute Optimized data flows to General Purpose data flows by 31 August 2024. Read More for the details.