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AWS – Announcing custom widgets for CloudWatch dashboards
Amazon CloudWatch announces the immediate availability of custom widgets, a new feature that enables you to gain operational visibility and agility by customizing the content of your CloudWatch dashboard such as adding visualizations, displaying information from multiple data sources or adding controls like buttons to take remediation actions. A set of templates and a sample […]
AWS – Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now resize their prefix list
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to resize your VPC prefix list, making it easier to manage your security posture and routing behavior as your network grows. Prefix lists allow you to group multiple CIDR blocks into a single object, and use it as a reference to simplify network configuration. You can share […]
GCP – Real-time analytics made easy with Cloud Spanner federated queries with BigQuery
As enterprises compete for market share, their need for real-time insights has given rise to increased demand for transactional databases to support data analytics. Whether it’s to provide dashboards that inform rapid decision-making, to perform analysis on a lookup table stored in a transactional database, or to conduct complex hybrid transactional analytical workloads, there is […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
AWS Glue DataBrew, a visual data preparation tool that makes it easy for data analysts and data scientists to clean and normalize data for analytics and machine learning, is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. Refer to AWS GovCloud documentation to learn more, and see where AWS Glue DataBrew is available by using […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speech to text in 6 new languages – Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English
Starting today, Amazon Transcribe supports batch transcription in six new languages – Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), Thai, New Zealand English, and South African English. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech to text capabilities to your applications. Read More for the details.
GCP – All you need to know about Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is a global, secure, and scalable object store for immutable data such as images, text, videos, and other file formats. You can add data to it or retrieve data from it as often as your application needs. The objects stored have an ID, metadata, attributes, and the actual data. The metadata can include […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition improves the accuracy of celebrity recognition, adds new attributes
Amazon Rekognition is a machine learning (ML) based service that can analyze images and videos to detect objects, people, faces, text, scenes, activities, and inappropriate content. Celebrity Recognition makes it easy for customers to automatically recognize tens of thousands of well-known personalities in images and videos using ML. Celebrity recognition significantly reduces the repetitive manual […]
AWS – AWS Compute Optimizer Now Helps Customers Understand Impact of Migrating to Graviton2-based Instances
AWS Compute Optimizer now helps customers understand impact of migrating to Graviton2-based instances by recommending up to 3 Graviton2-based instance type options for x86-based Linux instances. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Aurora supports PostgreSQL 13
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL major version 13. PostgreSQL 13 includes improved functionality and performance from enhancements such as de-duplication of B-tree index entries, improved performance for queries that use partitioned tables, incremental sorting to accelerate data sorts, parallel processing of indexes with the VACUUM command, more ways to monitor activity within a PostgreSQL […]
AWS – Amazon Textract announces reduced pricing of up to 32% on AnalyzeDocument and DetectDocumentText requests in eight global AWS Regions
Amazon Textract is a managed service that leverages computer vision and machine learning to automatically extract printed and handwritten text, tables and forms data from scanned documents with no machine learning experience necessary. Today, we are excited to announce that effective September 1, 2021, customers will see a price reduction of up to 32% and save […]