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AWS – 6 new training courses for Amazon Connect
We are pleased to announce the launch of six free new digital courses to help developers quickly ramp up contact centers using Amazon Connect. These advanced on-demand courses are designed for developers and technical professionals at customer and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner organizations who work with contact center technologies. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amplify Flutter now available as Developer Preview
The open source Amplify Framework, a suite of libraries and tools for mobile and front-end web developers, now offers support for Flutter developers. Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google for developing applications for Android and iOS from a single codebase. Today’s Amplify Flutter Developer Preview provides libraries and a CLI […]
AWS – Announcing 3 new courses for APN Partners on IoT and data analytics
Today we are introducing three courses created specifically for our APN Partner community! The first, AWS Solutions Training for Partners: IoT on AWS (Business), is a four-hour classroom course designed for account managers, business owners, and pre-sales representatives at AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner organizations. This intermediate-level course provides an overview of current market trends […]
AWS – Amazon Transcribe now supports speaker labeling for streaming transcription
Amazon Transcribe now supports speaker labeling for streaming transcription. Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for you to convert speech-to-text. In live audio transcription, each stream of audio may contain multiple speakers. Now you can conveniently turn on the ability to label speakers, thus helping to identify who […]
AWS – Amazon Textract is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
Amazon Textract is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents and goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to also identify the contents of fields in forms and information stored in tables. Read More for the details.
Azure – TypeScript 4.0 is generally available
TypeScript 4 is the latest major version of the TypeScript programming language. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Cognitive Services Translator Text— New languages now available
Translator Text now supports the Odia, Dari, Pashto, Central Kurdish and Northern Kurdish languages. Read More for the details.
AWS – Amazon ElastiCache for Redis brings encryption in transit, encryption at rest and additional security features to the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region
Amazon ElastiCache for Redis now supports encryption in-transit, encryption at-rest, and Redis authentication tokens to protect your data with additional security controls in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. Read More for the details.
GCP – 3 reasons to consider Cloud Spanner for your next project
A database is a key architectural component of almost every application. When you design an application, you’ll invariably need to durably store application data. Without persisting data to a shared database, there are neither options for application scalability nor for upgrades to the underlying hardware. More disastrous, any data will be immediately lost in the […]
GCP – Supporting Kotlin Google Maps Platform Developers
Ever since Google announced support for Kotlin on Android, Android developers are increasingly adopting Kotlin as their programming language of choice. Developers love Kotlin for how expressive it is, how it enables defensible programming through nullability support, and how it interoperates with Java. In fact, the recent State of Kotlin on Android survey shows that […]