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GCP – Building scalable web applications with Firestore — new reference guide
If you’ve been building and maintaining large web or mobile apps, you’ve probably heard of Firestore, Google’s scalable, serverless document database. But perhaps you’ve also wondered precisely how Firestore matches up to other Google Cloud database products. To help you understand Firestore’s core strengths, we’ve recently published a new reference guide that explains Firestore’s differentiating […]
AWS – New AWS Solutions Consulting Offer – VPC-In-A-Box℠
VPC-In-A-Box℠ is an AWS Solutions Consulting Offer, delivered via a consulting engagement from Foghorn, an AWS DevOps and AWS Security Competency Partner. VPC-In-A-Box℠ demystifies, simplifies, and accelerates Amazon VPC creation, configuration, and optimization, to seamlessly connect to AWS Availability Zones within AWS Regions around the world. Customers that request this consulting offer will take part […]
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 […]