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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.

Azure – Query Delta Lake files using T-SQL in Azure Synapse Analytics (public preview)
Use T-SQL in Azure Synapse to read Delta Lake format. Read More for the details.

AWS – AWS Wavelength is now System and Organization Controls (SOC) compliant
All AWS System and Organization Controls (SOC) (1,2,3) compliant services deployed in AWS Wavelength are now in scope. You can download the SOC Report in AWS Artifact. AWS maintains certifications through extensive audits of its controls to ensure that information security risks that affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of company and customer information are […]

AWS – Amazon Elastic Container Service Anywhere is now generally available
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Anywhere, a new capability of Amazon ECS. Amazon ECS Anywhere provides a fully managed container orchestration service that enables customers to run and manage containerized applications on-premises using the same APIs, cluster management, workload scheduling, monitoring, and deployment pipelines they […]

Azure – Cognitive Services – Form Recognizer adds new version in general availability
Support for 73 languages, prebuilt ID model, invoice line item extraction, table header extraction tagging as table, and more generally available in Azure Form Recognizer, part of Applied AI Services. Read More for the details.

GCP – The State & Local Government tech tightrope: Balancing COVID-19 impacts and the road ahead
State and local government (SLG) agencies are reeling from a combination of unbudgeted COVID-related expenses and reduced tax revenue caused by unemployment and business closures. Any way you look at it, the situation is challenging. To understand how SLG agencies are coping, Google Cloud collaborated with MeriTalk to survey 200 SLG IT and program managers, […]

AWS – Announcing Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio: Interactively query data streams and develop stream processing applications powered by Apache Flink
Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics Studio is now available, enabling you to interactively query data streams in real time, and easily build and run stream processing applications using SQL, Python, and Scala. With a few clicks, you can launch a serverless notebook to perform ad hoc querying and live data exploration on data streams, and get […]
AWS – Amazon Lightsail DNS now supports pointing root domains to Lightsail Container Services
You can now route traffic from your custom root domains (such as example.com) to your Lightsail container services using Lightsail DNS. Lightsail DNS already supported creating CNAME records mapping to your container services. With this launch, Lightsail DNS supports aliasing your custom root domain to your container service’s default domain which was not possible before. […]