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AWS – Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection
Amazon Athena has added support for Partition Projection, a new functionality that you can use to speed up query processing of highly partitioned tables and automate partition management. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Sphere OS quality update 20.06 is now available
The Azure Sphere OS quality update 20.06 is now available in the retail feed. Read More for the details.
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Transcribe Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that you can use to add speech-to-text capabilities to your applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without using public IPs, and without requiring the traffic to traverse […]
AWS – Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support for Amazon Transcribe Medical Real-Time Streaming
Amazon Transcribe Medical is a HIPAA eligible Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capabilities to their healthcare and life science applications. Starting today, AWS customers can use AWS PrivateLink to access the Amazon Transcribe Medical real-time streaming API from their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) without […]
AWS – Amazon MSK provides additional EC2 M5 broker sizes for more flexibility and cost optimization
You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters using kafka.m5.8xlarge and kafka.m5.16xlarge brokers. These new broker types give customers additional options to optimize the cost and performance of high volume streaming workloads on Amazon MSK. All Amazon MSK features apply to clusters with kafka.m5.8xlarge and kafka.m5.16xlarge brokers, including two and […]
AWS – Amazon MSK now supports 3 AWS Availability Zones in São Paulo and Canada regions
You can now create Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters clusters that span three AWS Availability Zones (AZs) in the South America (São Paulo) and Canada (Central) AWS regions. When Apache Kafka topics are replicated across three AZs, customers maximize fault tolerance and Apache Kafka availability. Read More for the details.
GCP – How the Google AI Community Used Cloud to Help Biomedical Researchers
In response to the global pandemic, the White House and a coalition of research groups published the CORD19-dataset on Kaggle, the world’s largest online data science community. The goal—to further our understanding about coronaviruses and other diseases—caught the attention of many in the health policy, research and medical community. The Kaggle challenge has received almost […]
AWS – Amazon AppStream 2.0 Now Supports Drawing Tablets
Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 adds support for drawing tablets. Drawing tablets, also known as pen tablets, are computer input devices that let users draw with a stylus (pen). With AppStream 2.0, your users can now connect a drawing tablet, such as a Wacom drawing tablet, to their local computer and use it with their streaming […]
AWS – AWS IoT Device Tester v3.1.0 for AWS IoT Greengrass is now available
AWS IoT Device Tester for AWS IoT Greengrass is a test automation tool for your IoT devices running AWS IoT Greengrass. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS CodePipeline Supports AWS AppConfig as a New Deploy Action type
AWS CodePipeline announces integration with AWS AppConfig to enable AWS customers to deliver features and updates safely, rapidly and reliably to their applications. AWS customers can now deploy application configurations using AppConfig in a validated, controlled and monitored way and automate orchestration of these deployments across deploy stages with AWS CodePipeline. Read More for […]