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AWS – Amazon Lex launches support for Austrian German
Today, Amazon Lex announces language support for Austrian German. Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex provides deep learning powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) for converting speech to text, and natural language understanding (NLU) to recognize the intent of the text so you can build […]
AWS – Amazon EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet now support automatic instance termination with Capacity Rebalancing
Starting today, you can configure EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet to automatically terminate a Spot Instance when using Capacity Rebalancing. With Capacity Rebalancing, EC2 Fleet and Spot Fleet attempt to replace a Spot Instance when it is at an elevated risk of interruption as indicated by the EC2 Instance rebalance recommendation signal. Until now, EC2 […]
AWS – Amazon Translate now supports AWS KMS Encryption
Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Starting today, you can use your own encryption keys from the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to encrypt data placed in your S3 bucket. Up until now, Amazon Translate used Amazon S3-SSE to encrypt your data. AWS KMS makes it […]
GCP – Google Cloud billing tutorials: Because surprises are for home makeover shows, not your wallet
Let’s face it: billing is probably not the most fun or glamorous part of building an app or service, but it’s definitely one of the most important parts. And since billing isn’t particularly exciting, let’s start with a surprise! Just kidding! No surprises here. The truth is, I’m a routine-oriented person who doesn’t like surprises. […]
Azure – Public preview: Azure Data Explorer is now supported as an output for Azure Stream Analytics job
We are announcing that Azure Stream Analytics can directly output data to Azure Data Explorer, simplifying architecture where you need both hot and warm path analytics on streaming data. This feature will be added to all Stream Analytics regions progressively. Read More for the details.
Azure – General availability: Azure Site Recovery now supports failover of multiple IP configurations
You can configure the failover and test failover settings of your secondary IP configuration for a seamless site recovery experience. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena adds cost details to query execution plans
Amazon Athena now displays the computational cost of your queries alongside their execution plans. With the release of the EXPLAIN ANALYZE statement, Athena can now execute your specified query and return a detailed breakdown of its execution plan along with the CPU usage of each stage and the number of rows processed. Read More for the […]
AWS – Amazon DevOps Guru now Supports Multi-Account Insight Aggregation with AWS Organizations
We are pleased to announce that you can now view the insights generated across all the accounts in your organization from a single delegated administrator account. Insights are alerts generated when Amazon DevOps Guru detects operational issues while monitoring your applications. These insights identify active or impending application issues, point to the likely cause of the […]
AWS – AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports managed Firmware Over-the-Air Update
AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN is a fully managed LoRaWAN Network Server (LNS) of AWS IoT Core that lets wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) technology connect to the AWS cloud. Now, AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN supports Firmware Over-the-Air Update (FUOTA) that allows customers to deliver secure and reliable firmware […]
GCP – Automatically clean up unneeded data with TTL for Cloud Spanner
Google Cloud is excited to announce the general availability of time to live (TTL) for Cloud Spanner. As a part of a broader suite of enterprise management capabilities, TTL allows database administrators to set policies to periodically delete ephemeral, temporary, or unneeded data from Spanner tables. Purging unnecessary data helps: Decrease storage and backup costs […]