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GCP – Baking recipes made by AI
Have you ever wondered what, fundamentally, scientifically, makes a piece of cake different from a slice of bread or a cookie? Me neither. But now this important, controversial question finally has an answer, thanks to explainable machine learning. (Sort of.) In machine learning, explainability is the study of how we can make models more interpretable, […]
AWS – AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 is now generally available
The AWS SDK for JavaScript, version 3 (v3) is now generally available and includes many frequently requested features, such as a new middleware stack and a first-class TypeScript support. It also has a modular architecture, with a separate package for each service. You can improve your application performance by only importing the packages your application […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now supports self-managed Apache Kafka as an event source
AWS Lambda now allows customers to build applications that can be triggered by messages in an Apache Kafka cluster hosted on any infrastructure. Customers can keep their existing Apache Kafka cluster as-is, and quickly and easily build Kafka consumer applications with Lambda without needing to worry about provisioning or managing servers. Read More for […]
AWS – Announcing the first AWS Wavelength Zone in Tokyo, Japan
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on KDDI’s 5G network in Japan. Wavelength allows developers to build applications that need ultra-low latency or high bandwidth for mobile devices and users on KDDI’s 5G network. AWS Wavelength is available on the KDDI 5G network today in Tokyo, and we are collaborating with […]
AWS – AWS Lambda now makes it easier to build analytics for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
Customers can now use AWS Lambda to build analytics workloads for their Amazon Kinesis or Amazon DynamoDB Streams. For no additional cost, customers can build sum, average, count, and other simple analytics functions over a contiguous, non-overlapping time windows (tumbling window) of up to 15 minutes per logical partition. Customers can consolidate their business and […]
AWS – AWS Lambda launches checkpointing for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams
AWS Lambda now allows customers to automatically checkpoint records that have been successfully processed for Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB Streams, using a new parameter, FunctionResponseType. When customers set this parameter to “Report Batch Item Failure”, if a batch fails to process, only records after the last successful message are retried. This reduces duplicate processing, […]
AWS – AWS Personal Health Dashboard now supports organization-wide event aggregation
For customers using AWS Organizations, the AWS Personal Health Dashboard now provides an all-up view of Health events occurring across your organization. From a single aggregated dashboard, you can learn about maintenance events, security vulnerabilities, and AWS service degredations affecting any account in your AWS organization. Organizational View for the Personal Health Dashboard comes at no […]
GCP – Live captioning in Google Meet expanding to 4 new languages
Earlier today we announced we’re rolling out live caption support in Google Meet to four additional languages: French, German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain and Latin America). Live captioning in Google Meet uses Google’s speech-to-text technology to provide live captions to help participants who may be deaf or hard of hearing follow along and stay […]
AWS – Introducing AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN: connect and manage LoRaWAN devices at scale easily and cost-effectively
We are thrilled to announce AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN, a fully managed capability that allows AWS IoT Core customers to connect and manage wireless devices that use low-power long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) connectivity with the AWS cloud. Using AWS IoT Core, enterprises can now setup a private LoRaWAN network by connecting their own […]
AWS – Manage Microsoft SQL Server workloads on Amazon EC2 using Application Manager capability in AWS Systems Manager
With Application Manager, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager, it is now easier to manage SQL Server workloads that are deployed using AWS Launch Wizard. Application Manager automatically imports SQL Server resources created by AWS Launch Wizard, and enables you to perform operational tasks such as database integrity checks, backup and restore, and index […]