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Azure – Generally available: Azure Functions runtime 4.0
Version 4.0 of the Azure Functions runtime supports .NET 6. It also supports Node.js, Python, Java, PowerShell, and other languages using custom handlers. Read More for the details.
Azure – PowerShell on Linux SKU in Azure Functions is now available in public preview
You can now develop Azure Functions PowerShell apps locally and deploy them to Azure Functions on Linux OS. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
AWS Backup announces support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), allowing you to centrally manage data protection of your DocumentDB clusters along with other supported AWS services for database, storage, and compute. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Polly now offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in Spanish and Italian
Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech (TTS), launches 2 new neural TTS voices. You can now use Lucia for Castilian Spanish and Bianca for Italian. With this launch, we now offer 22 neural TTS voices across 12 languages. With these voices, you can create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories […]
AWS – AWS Backup adds support for Amazon Neptune
AWS Backup announces the addition of Amazon Neptune to its portfolio of supported services. This is a new functionality in AWS Backup that allows you to create automated periodic snapshots of Amazon Neptune clusters using your centralized data protection policy across the supported AWS services for database, storage, and compute. Read More for the details.
GCP – How Looker is helping marketers optimize workflows with first-party data
It’s no secret that first-party data will become increasingly important to brands and marketing teams as they brace for transformation and unlock new, engaging ways of providing consumer experiences. The pain points that marketers are experiencing today (siloed data preventing complete customer view, non-actionable insights, and general data access issues) are coming into focus as […]
GCP – Predict hospital readmission rates with Google Cloud Platform
Today’s challenge with healthcare data:The amount of data collected today is at an all time high and the demand to leverage and understand that data is rapidly growing. Organizations across every industry want convenient, fast, and easy access to data and insights, while allowing users to take action on it in real-time. Healthcare is no […]
GCP – Announcing a Firestore Connector for Apache Beam and Cloud Dataflow
Large scale data processing workloads can be challenging to operationalize and orchestrate. We’re excited to announce the release of a Firestore in Native Mode connector for Apache Beam to make data processing easier than ever for Firestore users. Apache Beam is an open source project that supports large scale data processing with a unified batch […]
GCP – Surfboard payment app delivers next-generation checkout experiences for merchants of any size
One of the main challenges entrepreneurs face—from small merchants selling at weekly farmer’s markets to local retailers looking to become the next big brand—is handling customer payments. According to VISA, there are more than 180 million underserved micro merchants across the globe. We foundedSurfboard Payments and developed ourSurfpay app to provide micro merchants everywhere with […]
AWS – AWS Toolkits for Cloud9, JetBrains and VS Code now support interaction with over 200 new resource types
AWS Toolkits for JetBrains, VS Code and Cloud9 now provide customers with the ability to select and view from a list of 245 resource types across 94 services without leaving their IDEs. With this release, in addition to accessing AWS services that are listed by default in the AWS Explorer pane, customers can choose from hundreds […]