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Azure – Additional Azure SQL Database gateways changes effective September 10, 2020
Additional SQL Gateways are being added for Azure SQL Database in West Central US and South Africa North effective 10 September 2020. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Lex launches accuracy improvements and confidence scores
Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Today, we are launching natural language understanding improvements and confidence scores on Amazon Lex. We continuously improve the service based on customer feedback and advances in research. The natural language understanding improvements enable better intent classification accuracy. Confidence scores indicate […]
AWS – Amazon EKS is now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS Europe (Milan) Regions. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure France has achieved GSMA accreditation
Azure has added an important compliance offering for telecommunications in France, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA) Security Accreditation Scheme for Subscription Management (SAS-SM). Read More for the details.
Azure – Selective disks backup for Azure Virtual Machine is in public preview
Optimize your costs and enjoy faster backup and restore operations by selectively backing up a subset of the data disks in a VM. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Cloud9 is now available in the EU (Milan) region
AWS Cloud9 is now available in the EU (Milan) region. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon Transcribe launches custom language models
We are delighted to announce the launch of Custom Language Models (CLM) for Amazon Transcribe. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Unlike the Custom Vocabulary feature, which enhances speech recognition for a discrete list of out-of-lexicon terms, CLM allows […]
AWS – Announcing the General Availability of AWS Wavelength in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area
Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Wavelength on Verizon’s 5G Network in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area, beginning in San Jose today and extending to the rest of the Bay Area in the coming weeks. Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the edge of communications service providers’ 5G […]
AWS – AWS Batch is now available in Europe (Milan) Region
Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the Europe (Milan) AWS Region. Read More for the details.
GCP – Performance and cost optimization best practices for machine learning
Cloud computing provides the power and speed needed for Machine Learning (ML), and allows you to easily scale up and down. However, this also means that costs may spin out of control if you don’t plan ahead, which is especially fraught now, given that businesses are particularly cost conscious. To use Google Cloud effectively for […]