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GCP – Diversity in leadership: Celebrating the success of Asian & Pacific American founders with Google Cloud
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month —a time for us to come together to celebrate and remember the important people and history of Asian and Pacific Island heritage. This feature highlights three AAPI founders from the Google For Startups community. Read on to learn how these three founders built their businesses, leverage Google tech, […]
AWS – Amazon FSx for Lustre now supports data compression
Amazon FSx for Lustre, a service that provides cost-effective, high-performance, scalable file storage for compute workloads, now supports data compression, enabling you to reduce the cost of storage for machine learning, high performance computing (HPC), and analytics data sets. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon SQS Now Supports a High Throughput Mode for FIFO Queues
On Dec 17, 2020, Amazon Simple Queue Service supported a preview of high throughput mode for FIFO queues. Today, Amazon SQS announces the general availability of high throughput mode for FIFO queues, allowing you to process up to 3000 messages per second per API action. This is a tenfold increase compared to current SQS FIFO […]
AWS – Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region
CloudWatch Synthetics, a feature that supports monitoring your REST APIs, URLs, and website content every minute, 24/7, is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) Region. With CloudWatch Synthetics, you can continually verify your customer experience even when there is no customer traffic on your applications. This helps you discover issues before your customers […]
AWS – Amazon Kendra releases Query Suggestions
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, that enables organizations to provide more relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can use Amazon Kendra’s Query Suggestions feature to guide end users towards more commonly asked questions and save them time in their search for the […]
AWS – AWS Glue DataBrew adds new nest and unnest transformations
AWS Glue DataBrew now supports nest and unnest transformations to help users pack or unpack data into columns to manipulate their datasets. With these transformations, users can now easily extract data from nested json string fields or combine data without writing any code. Read More for the details.
GCP – Integrating Eventarc and Workflows
I previously talked about Eventarc for choreographed (event-driven) Cloud Run services and introduced Workflows for orchestrated services. Eventarc and Workflows are very useful in strictly choreographed or orchestrated architectures. However, you sometimes need a hybrid architecture that combines choreography and orchestration. For example, imagine a use case where a message to a Pub/Sub topic triggers […]
AWS – AWS announces general availability of Amazon Redshift ML
We’re excited to announce that Redshift ML is now generally available. Amazon Redshift ML enables you to create, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models using familiar SQL commands. With Amazon Redshift ML, you can now leverage Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning service, without moving your data or learning new skills. Read More […]
AWS – Amazon Polly Launches a new Korean Neural Text-to-Speech voice
Amazon Polly is a service that turns text into lifelike speech. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) version of Seoyeon, a Korean Polly voice. Now Amazon Polly customers can enjoy Seoyeon either as an NTTS or Standard Korean voice. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon API Gateway REST APIs integrates with Step Functions Synchronous Express Workflows
You can now create Amazon API Gateway REST APIs to trigger a Synchronous Express Workflow from AWS Step Functions and respond with the output of that workflow. Read More for the details.