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Azure – Azure Batch vCPU quota checks are being updated
The vCPU quota checks that are performed during pool operations are being updated to check the dedicated VM series vCPU quotas, in addition to the Batch account total dedicated vCPUs quota that is currently checked. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Storage blob inventory public preview
The Azure Storage blob inventory, which provides an overview of your blob data within a storage account, is now available for public preview in France Central, Canada Central, and Canada East. Read More for the details.
AWS – Introducing AWS Panorama for computer vision at the edge
AWS Panorama is a new machine learning Appliance and SDK, both of which allow organizations to bring computer vision to their on-premises cameras to make automated predictions with high accuracy and low latency. With AWS Panorama, companies can use compute power at the edge (without requiring video streamed to the cloud) to improve their operations, […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Voice ID provides real-time caller authentication for more secure calls
Amazon Connect Voice ID (available in preview) provides real-time caller authentication that makes voice interactions in contact centers more secure and efficient. Voice ID provides an additional security layer that doesn’t rely on the caller answering multiple questions (such as birthdate and mother’s maiden name) and makes it easy to enroll and verify customers without […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports up to 10 GB of memory and 6 vCPU cores for Lambda Functions
AWS Lambda customers can now provision Lambda functions with a maximum of 10,240 MB (10 GB) of memory, a more than 3x increase compared to the previous limit of 3,008 MB. This helps workloads like batch, extract, transform, load (ETL) jobs, and media processing applications perform memory intensive operations at scale. Read More for the […]
AWS – AWS announces AQUA for Amazon Redshift (preview)
AQUA (Advanced Query Accelerator) for Amazon Redshift is available in preview. AQUA provides a new distributed and hardware accelerated cache that brings compute to the storage layer for Amazon Redshift and delivers up to 10x faster query performance than other cloud data warehouses. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Lambda changes duration billing granularity from 100ms down to 1ms
AWS Lambda reduced the billing granularity for Lambda function duration from 100ms down to 1ms. This will lower the price for most Lambda functions, more so for short duration functions. Their compute duration will be billed in 1ms increments instead of being rounded up to the nearest 100 ms increment per invoke. For example, a […]
AWS – Amazon Connect Wisdom provides contact center agents the information they need to quickly solve customer issues
Amazon Connect Wisdom uses machine learning (ML) to drastically reduce the time agents spend searching for answers. Today, knowledge articles, wikis, and FAQs are spread across separate repositories and siloes. Agents lose a lot of time trying to navigate all those databases, and in the meantime, the customer waits for the answer. With Amazon Connect […]
AWS – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer announces Security Detectors to help improve code security
Today, we are excited to announce additional capabilities with Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer to help you find and remediate security issues in your code before you deploy. CodeGuru Reviewer Security Detectors helps identify security risks from the top ten Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) categories (OWASP is a standard awareness document for developers and web […]
AWS – AWS announces Amazon DevOps Guru in Preview, an ML-powered cloud operations service to improve application availability for AWS workloads
Amazon DevOps Guru is a new machine learning (ML) powered service that gives you a simpler way to measure and improve an application’s operational performance and availability and reduce expensive downtime – no machine learning expertise required. Read More for the details.