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GCP – Google Cloud’s top AI blog posts from 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) remained in the spotlight over the last year, as the gap continued to grow between organizations that merely possess data and those that can use data to leverage the power of AI to generate actionable insights or improve customer experiences. At Google Cloud, helping you turn AI investments into real-world results is […]
GCP – Google Meet in 2021: A year of accelerated innovation
2021 has been a year of change for all of us as the pandemic continued to expedite technology’s role in keeping us connected through video. Google Meet played a significant role in enabling those connections, helping friends, families, and colleagues across the globe safely come together. As we saw in our recent global Economist Impact […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports pre-configured connectors from Segment and Shopify
Amazon Connect Customer Profiles now supports near real-time data ingestion from Segment and Shopify. Use existing Segment data sources to ingest customer information such as name, email address, and phone number into Amazon Connect. Once your connectors are configured, customer profiles are created and updated in near real-time for new customer actions such as new customer registration, […]
AWS – AWS Transfer Family is now FedRAMP compliant
AWS Transfer Family is now authorized as FedRAMP Moderate in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon) and as FedRAMP High in GovCloud(US-West) and GovCloud(US-East). Read More for the details.
AWS – Porting Assistant for .NET adds support for .NET 6 and conversion of ASP.NET Web Forms applications to ASP.NET Core Blazor
Porting Assistant for .NET now supports .NET 6 as a target framework and porting of certain ASP.NET Web Forms application configurations to ASP.NET Core Blazor framework. With this release, Porting Assistant will translate select Web Forms view/UI layer files, page life-cycle events, and application life cycle events to the cross-platform Blazor Framework. Developers can use […]
AWS – AWS Well-Architected Tool adds four new Trusted Advisor checks
AWS Well-Architected now supports four new AWS Trusted Advisor checks as a unified home of best practice recommendations to identify the most impactful risks and take action to mitigate them. The new checks are: 1. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for cost optimization 2. AWS Well-Architected high risk issues for performance efficiency 3. AWS Well-Architected […]
AWS – AWS Trusted Advisor adds three optimization checks for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon EC2
AWS Trusted Advisor now supports new recommendations that help you simplify your SQL Server optimization on Amazon EC2. The checks inspect your SQL Server workloads and automatically lists your SQL Server instances that need optimization. You can then take recommended actions to reduce costs and improve security. You can find the details of the three […]
AWS – AWS DataSync can now copy data to and from Amazon FSx for Lustre
AWS DataSync now supports copying data to and from Amazon FSx for Lustre, a fully managed service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable storage for compute workloads. Using DataSync, you can quickly and securely perform data movement tasks such as moving data from one FSx for Lustre file system to another, migrating your on-premises data to your […]
AWS – Amazon Chime SDK media capture pipelines supports Amazon S3 server side encryption with AWS Key Management Service
The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen share, and messaging capabilities to their web or mobile applications. With media capture pipelines, developers can capture the contents of their Amazon Chime SDK meetings to the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket of their choice. Developers can now use media capture pipelines […]
AWS – Amazon Translate announces profanity masking
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Starting today, you have the ability to mask commonly understood profane terms and prevent them from appearing in your translations. By default, Amazon Translate chooses clean words for your translation output. In cases where profane words appear in the […]