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AWS – Amazon Textract supports handwriting and five new languages
Amazon Textract, a machine learning service, extracts text and other data from documents as well as tables and forms. Today, we are pleased to announce two new features: Amazon Textract now supports recognition of handwritten text from documents such as healthcare forms, prescriptions, dispute letters, tax documents, income documents, checks, claims, academic papers and many […]
Azure – Azure IoT Central new and updated features—October 2020
October updates job scheduling, enhanced IoT Edge support, dashboard improvements, and documentation updates. Read More for the details.
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Atlassian Managed Hosting
Atlassian Managed Hosting is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from kreuzwerker, an AWS DevOps Competency Partner. Atlassian Managed Hosting allows customers to run all Atlassian server-deployed applications on AWS. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an assessment of existing data, onboarding, and testing […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – Open Banking Enablement Service
Open Banking Enablement Service is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer delivered via a consulting engagement from Capgemini, an AWS Financial Services Competency Partner. Open Banking Enablement Service creates a strong foundation for a financial institution’s open banking journey. Customers that request this consulting offer will participate in an engagement that delivers an open banking transformation […]
GCP – The democratization of data and insights: Expanding Machine Learning Access
In the first blog in this series, we discussed how data availability, data access, and insight access have evolved over time, and what Google Cloud is doing today to help customers democratize the production of insights across organizational personas. In this blog we’ll discuss why artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical to […]
GCP – Turbocharge your software supply chain with Artifact Registry, now GA
As enterprises modernize their applications with improved software delivery processes, they face increasing challenges in managing their dependencies—the artifacts that make up their applications, deployed in accordance with security and compliance best practices. Today, we’re excited to announce that Artifact Registry is generally available. With support for container images, Maven, npm packages, and additional formats […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight launches new Chart Types, Table Improvements and more
Amazon QuickSight now supports Waterfall charts. Waterfall charts show how any metric is affected positively or negatively by a series of contributing factors. Dashboard authors can create a waterfall chart by choosing this new visual type from the visuals menu. See here for more details. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for running SQL queries across relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources.
Federated queries in Amazon Athena enable users to run SQL queries across data stored in relational, non-relational, object, and custom data sources. The feature, which is now generally available in the us-east-1, us-west-2, and us-east-2 regions, enables customers to submit a single SQL query that scans data from multiple sources running on-premises or hosted in […]
AWS – Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6
Network Load Balancer (NLB) now supports Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). With this launch, you can now configure NLB to operate in dual-stack mode, accepting both IPv4 and IPv6 client connections. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Athena announces availability of engine version 2
Today, Amazon Athena announced general availability of a new query engine version, Athena engine version 2. Read More for the details.