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AWS – CloudWatch Application Insights offers new, improved user interface
Amazon CloudWatch Application Insights, working closely with customers, has introduced an enhanced user interface to make setting up and managing your enterprise application monitoring even more straight forward. CloudWatch Application Insights is a capability that helps enterprise customers easily setup application monitoring and enhanced observability for AWS resources. The user interface improvements streamline the steps […]
Azure – Row Level Security now generally available for Azure Data Explorer
Row Level Security simplifies the design and coding of security. It lets you apply restrictions on data row access in your application. Read More for the details.
GCP – And then there were two: Simplifying our product launch stages
A product’s launch stage signals important information to the user about its production-worthiness, supportability, polish, and price. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products have traditionally traveled through four launch stages—Early Access, Alpha, Beta and General Availability—and today, we are simplifying those down to just two: Preview and General Availability. Going forward, all new GCP products will […]
GCP – Helping media companies navigate the new streaming normal
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this feature originally appeared on Next TVand TV Technology. From the explosion of new programming to the launch of high-profile streaming services, 2020 was on track to be a transformational year in media and entertainment. But at the same time, the industry fully expected many of its foundational elements—windowing […]
GCP – Rapid cloud foundation buildout and workload deployment using Terraform
Last year, we released the Cloud Foundation Toolkit, open source templates that help you quickly build a strong cloud foundation according to best practices. These modules are available for both the Terraform infrastructure-as-code framework, as well as our own Cloud Deployment Manager. This blog post will detail building a secure cloud foundation using the Cloud […]
GCP – What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Week of Oct 5-9 2020 Introducing the Google Cloud Healthcare Consent Management API—This API gives healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage […]
AWS – Amazon Connect supports Amazon Lex bots with US Spanish
You can now configure your Amazon Lex chat bot to improve engagement with customers who speak US Spanish. Amazon Lex allows you to create intelligent conversational chatbots that can be used with Amazon Connect to automate high volume interactions without compromising customer experience. Customers can perform tasks such as changing a password, requesting a balance […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels now guides customers to fix dataset related errors, enabling faster creation of a high quality custom inference API
Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels is an automated machine learning (AutoML) feature that allows customers to find objects and scenes in images, unique to their business needs, with a simple inference API. Customers can create a custom ML model simply by uploading labeled images. No ML expertise is required. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Personalize announces improvements that reduce model training time by up to 40% and latency for generating recommendations by up to 30%
We are excited to announce efficiency improvements for Amazon Personalize that decrease the time required to train models by up to 40% and reduce the latency for generating real-time recommendations by up to 30%. Amazon Personalize enables developers to build applications with the same machine learning (ML) technology used by Amazon.com for real-time personalized recommendations […]
AWS – AWS Cloud Map simplifies service discovery with optional parameters
You can now discover endpoints registered in AWS Cloud Map with optional parameters that filter the returned results only when there is a matching custom attribute. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon ECS […]