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AWS – Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Canada (Central), and Asia Pacific (Seoul)
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in the Canada (Central) and Asia Pacific (Seoul) Regions. You can now synthesize all NTTS voices in this Region, including the Newscaster and Conversational speaking styles. In addition, you […]
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports highly available clusters on AWS Local Zones
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports running clusters with high availability across multiple AWS Local Zones. AWS Local Zones are an extension of an AWS Region where you can run your latency-sensitive applications using AWS services in geographic proximity to end-users. Previously, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis only supported launching a cluster in a single AWS […]
Azure – General availability: IoT Hub Azure portal extension update
If you’re using IP filter, add your computer’s IP address to the allow list to keep using IoT Hub in Azure portal. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics now supports Python with Apache Flink v1.11
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink now supports streaming applications built using Python version 3.7. This enables you to write streaming applications in the Python language and run them using Apache Flink v1.11 on Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics. Apache Flink v1.11 offers support for Python through the Table API, which is a unified, relational […]
Azure – Public preview: Announcing the new Power BI embedded analytics playground
Check out the new Power BI embedded analytics playground (public preview). You can find in the new playground experiences for developer and non-developers to get first-hand experience of Power BI embedded analytics. Read More for the details.
GCP – Three lessons learned from a year of COVID-19 response
The past year has been a challenging one. The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the way the world operates, and has created new information and logistical challenges for both communities and public health officials. Over the past year, we have been working closely with city, state, and federal officials to aid in the pandemic response, […]
GCP – Four ways CSPs can harness data, automation, and AI to create business value
Telecommunications companies sit on a veritable goldmine of data they can use to drive new business opportunities, improve customer experiences, and increase efficiencies. There’s so much data, in fact, that a significant challenge lies in ingesting, processing, refining, and using that data efficiently enough to inform decision-making as quickly as possible—often in near real-time. According […]
GCP – Batter up! Anthos for bare metal helps MLB gear up for upcoming season
It’s been a long, cold winter, after a long, strange year. The global pandemic impacted the last baseball season, and it may do so again. But Spring Training is finally here, which is all about optimism and new beginnings. We’re excited for this season, and we’re really excited about our new architecture powered by Anthos […]
GCP – TELUS International migrates key customer experience app to Google Cloud
As more services and applications go online, ensuring a frictionless customer experience is vital to building brand loyalty, capturing more sales, and optimizing profits. But if your underlying technology isn’t reliable, it’s easy to lose customers to the competition. For TELUS International, a leading digital customer experience innovator, ensuring the reliability of its online tools […]
GCP – Meet the EMEA startups and scaleups redefining their industries with cloud technology
Be they technology, fintech, gaming, or retail, examples abound of industries being disrupted and redefined by startups and scaleups. EMEA has become a hub of innovation, and we’re proud to say that many of these movers and shakers are Google Cloud customers. At the Google Cloud Born-Digital Summit on 25 March, we will gather technology […]