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Azure – Public preview: Application Insight in UAE North
UAE North is now in public preview for customers to start collecting telemetry and analyze their services for health using Application Insight. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Patches 1.7.6 / 2.5.6 / 3.2.6 now available
Patches 1.7.6 / 2.5.6 / 3.2.6 are now available for customers using Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. For detailed release notes visit our version documentation. You can apply the new patch version in the AWS Management Console, via the AWS CLI, or via the RDS API. For detailed instructions, please see our technical documentation. Read More […]

AWS – Amazon Kendra adds user tokens for secure search
Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy to use intelligent search service powered by machine learning. Starting today, AWS customers using Amazon Kendra can easily validate the identity of individual users, as well as user groups who perform searches with the addition of secure search tokens. Read More for the details.

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.