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Azure – Azure Machine Learning announces output dataset (Preview)
With the new output datasets capability, write back to cloud storage and configure and register output data. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon Connect allows contact-centers to auto-resolve to the best voice
You can now configure your Amazon Connect contact-center to automatically resolve to the best sounding version of a Polly Text-to-Speech (TTS) voice. Instead of manually updating the settings within every ‘Set voice’ block, administrators can configure their contact-center once and every TTS prompt would auto-resolve to the best available voice, saving time and effort. For […]

AWS – Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g and R6g instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances are available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney) regions. Amazon EC2 M6g, C6g, and R6g instances deliver up to 40% better price/performance over comparable x86-based instances for a broad spectrum of workloads, including application servers, micro-services, high-performance computing, CPU-based machine learning inference, electronic design automation, gaming, […]

AWS – API Gateway HTTP APIs adds integration with five AWS services
Customers can now create Amazon API Gateway HTTP APIs that route requests to AWS AppConfig, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon SQS, and AWS Step Functions. With these new integrations, customers can easily create APIs and webhooks for their business logic hosted in these AWS services. Read More for the details.

GCP – How SAP customers can accelerate analytics in the cloud
These days, real-time, real-world data usually comes from multiple, disparate sources—for instance, IoT devices, messaging applications, social media, and clickstreams from web and ecommerce activity. This data is rapidly growing in variety, volume, and velocity. In a recent ESG survey, 66% of organizations report that they are managing a petabyte of data or more, with […]

AWS – AWS Launch Wizard now enables SQL Server Always on deployments in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain) regions
AWS Launch Wizard now allows customers to more easily deploy SQL Server Always On workloads in two new AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) and Middle East (Bahrain). AWS Launch Wizard offers a guided way to size, configure, and deploy AWS resources for SQL Always On applications with an easy to use wizard. It provides […]

AWS – AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter adds CloudWatch graphs for monitoring and simplifies remediation with contextual runbooks
With this update, you can now view Amazon CloudWatch graphs to monitor the health and performance of your AWS resources from OpsCenter, a feature of Systems Manager, without navigating across multiple consoles. OpsCenter enables you to view, investigate, and resolve operational items, also known as OpsItems, for AWS resources. Read More for the details.

AWS – Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region
Amazon FSx, a fully managed service that makes it easy to launch and run feature-rich and highly-performant file systems, is now available in the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. With Amazon FSx, customers can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of widely-used open source and commercially-licensed file systems, while avoiding time-consuming administrative […]

AWS – AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports additional encryption, integrity and key exchange algorithms
You can now use additional encryption, integrity, and key exchange algorithms for your VPN connections. These advanced algorithms provide higher security to protect your data, higher performance for faster transfer rates, and help meet compliance requirements. These algorithms are available as tunnel options for new and existing VPN connections and can be accessed through the […]
AWS – Amazon Chime introduces Amazon Voice Focus for noise suppression
Amazon Chime introduces Amazon Voice Focus, deep learning based noise suppression to reduce unwanted noise from meetings. Read More for the details.