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AWS – Amazon Textract announces quality updates to its forms extraction feature
Amazon Textract is a machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting and data from scanned documents that goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. We continuously improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are […]

Azure – Azure Container Registry is now available in West US 3
Azure Container Registry is now generally available in West US 3 region. Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Read More for the details.

Azure – Azure Sphere OS version 21.06 is now generally available
This quality release of the OS includes bug fixes for apps using SPI Flash. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Control Tower announces accessibility, console and performance improvements
AWS Control Tower announces enhancements to accessibility and improvements in both the console and overall performance of the service. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers self-service operational reporting across all your AMS managed accounts
AWS Managed Services (AMS) now offers self-service reporting on key operational metrics. AWS Managed Services provides operational reports on your Managed Environment for both traditional and next generation workloads. You can access the rich set of operational reports in your managed accounts through AWS Managed Services console. You can also access the operational reporting data through […]

Azure – Azure Maps Mobility Services Preview will be retired on 5 October 2021
Transition to Bing Maps Routes API and/or Moovit Public Transit API’s by 5 October 2021 Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Lambda support for Amazon Elastic File System now available in Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
AWS Lambda customers can now enable functions to access Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) in the Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. With AWS Lambda support for Amazon EFS, customers can easily share data across function invocations, read large reference data files, and write function output to a persistent and shared data store. Read More for […]

AWS – Amazon SageMaker Now Supports ml.G4dn instances for Batch Transform and Processing Jobs
Amazon SageMaker customers can now select ml.G4dn instances to run Batch Transform and Processing Jobs. Amazon SageMaker Batch Transform enables you to run predictions on datasets stored in Amazon S3. It is ideal for scenarios where you are working with large batches of data and don’t need sub-second latency. Amazon SageMaker Processing enables you to run […]

Azure – Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1: Account creation will be blocked for new customers starting July 5, 2021
Take advantage of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 for all of your analytic needs after July 5, 2021. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon RDS for Oracle now supports additional memory configurations of the r5 instance class
Starting today, you can launch additional configurations of the R5 instance class when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle. Featuring up to 4x the RAM per vCPU of existing R5 instance classes, the new configurations are available in the following AWS Regions: North America US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West […]