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AWS – Announcing General Availability of the AWS Panorama Appliance
Today, the AWS Panorama Appliance is generally available. The AWS Panorama Appliance is a new device that enables customers to improve their operations and reduce costs by using existing on-premises cameras and analyzing video streams locally with computer vision. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports custom language models for streaming transcription
We are pleased to announce that Amazon Transcribe will now support custom language models (CLM) for streaming transcription. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. CLM allows you to leverage pre-existing data to build a custom speech engine tailored for […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches new Table and Pivot table enhancements
Amazon QuickSight now supports advanced styling for your Table and Pivot Table. Authors can create beautiful tables, follow a design pattern or apply a standardized corporate identity to their tabular visuals with the newly launched options to customize borders and colors. They can also apply custom borders and styling for their totals and sub-totals letting […]
AWS – Introducing support for AWS KMS customer managed keys for encrypting artifacts by Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics
CloudWatch Synthetics now supports using an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that you provide to encrypt the canary run data that CloudWatch Synthetics stores in your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket. By default, these artifacts are encrypted at rest using an AWS managed key. Read More for the details.
GCP – Bring no-code apps to your Gmail inbox. Here’s how.
Last week weannounced AppSheet in Gmail, a new feature that lets you use custom-built no-code applications, created in AppSheet, directly in your inbox as a dynamic email. Too often, daily workflows are spread across multiple applications, slowing productivity as we navigate from one app to another and back again. By putting business apps and email […]
AWS – Amazon RDS for MySQL on Outposts supports new minor versions
We have updated Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL on Outposts to support MySQL minor versions 8.0.23, and 8.0.25. We recommend that customers upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by […]
Azure – General availability: Azure Spring Cloud application health monitoring and end-to-end TLS/SSL
Application lifecycle and health monitoring with Azure Activity log and Azure Service Health, and end-to-end TLS/SSL are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud. Read More for the details.
Azure – Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud RBAC config server and registry access and Nginx logs and metrics
Spring Cloud Config Server and Service Registry access using Azure Active Directory and Nginx ingress logs and metrics are now available in preview in Azure Spring Cloud. Read More for the details.
GCP – Accelerating MPI applications using Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC)
At Google, we are constantly improving the performance of our network infrastructure. We recently introduced Google Virtual NIC (gVNIC), a virtual network interface designed specifically for Compute Engine. gVNIC is an alternative to the VirtIO-based Ethernet driver. It is tightly integrated with our high performance, flexible Andromeda virtual network stack and is required to enable […]
GCP – Using AI to transform traditional approaches to online learning
The combination of a vital need for IT experts among businesses and a digital skills gap is making lifelong learning increasingly critical. Beyond professional development, learning new skills offers additional rewards from building peer connections to boosting your creativity. That’s why in 2020 Krishna Deepak Nallamilli and I launched KIMO.ai to reimagine how people approach […]