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GCP – Translation API Advanced can translate business documents across 100+ languages
Translation is critical to many developers and localization providers, whether you’re releasing a document, a piece of software, training materials or a website in multiple languages. Companies acquire and share content in many languages and formats, and scaling translation to meet this need is a tall order, due to multiple document formats, integrations with OCR, […]

AWS – Amazon Transcribe improves live subtitling with partial results stabilization
We are excited to announce that Amazon Transcribe now supports partial results stabilization, which further improves the live subtitling experience. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. As Amazon Transcribe processes streaming audio content, it generates partial transcription results until […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 P4d instances now available in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions
Amazon EC2 P4d instances which provide the highest performance for machine learning training and high performance computing in the cloud are now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) regions. Read More for the details.

Azure – General availability: Azure DevOps updates for May 2021
There are several new announcements for May 2021 including repos as protected resource in YAML pipelines and updates to Delivery Plans 2.0. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lake Formation now supports Tag-based access control (TBAC)
AWS Lake Formation now supports tagging data lake resources (databases, tables and columns) and creating logical access control policies based on those tags. Tag-based access control (TBAC) decouples policy creation from resource creation which helps data stewards govern large number of databases, tables, and columns by removing the need to update policies every time a […]

AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports RollbackApplication, ListApplicationVersions, and DescribeApplicationVersion APIs in preview
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports three new application management APIs in preview. RollbackApplication allows you to restore your application to the last running version and application state from the most recent, successful snapshot. ListApplicationVersions allows you to get all application versions and a summary of the associated configurations. DescribeApplicationVersion gives you […]

AWS – Amazon EKS managed node groups adds support for Kubernetes node taints
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) managed node groups now supports Kubernetes node taints, simplifying node lifecycle management for clusters with varying application resource requirements. Read More for the details.

AWS – Announcing Amazon RDS for SQL Server on AWS Outposts
Amazon RDS for SQL Server on AWS Outposts is now available to all AWS Outposts customers. Amazon RDS on AWS Outposts allows you to deploy fully managed database instances in your on-premises environments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, […]

AWS – AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. This regional expansion extends the availability of ACM Private CA across the globe, increasing the number of regions to 22. The Osaka region only supports CAs with the private key stored in a FIPS 140-2 level 2 HSM. […]
AWS – Amazon EMR on EKS is now available in the EU (Paris and Stockholm) region
Starting today, Amazon EMR on Amazon EKS is now available in the EU (Paris and Stockholm) region. Read More for the details.