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AWS – Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) Regions
Amazon Textract is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Canada (Central) regions. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract 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 […]
Azure – Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now in preview
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets. Read More for the details.
Azure – Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available
Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates, and secrets changes. Read More for the details.
GCP – Strengthen zero trust access with the Google Cloud CA service
As more organizations undergo digital transformation, evolve their IT infrastructure and migrate to public cloud, the role of digital certificates will grow—and grow a lot. Certificates and certificate authorities (CAs) play a key role in both modern IT models like DevOps and in the evolution of traditional enterprise IT. In August, we announced our Certificate […]
GCP – Lending DocAI fast tracks the home loan process
Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform industries across the globe, and business decision makers of all kinds are taking notice. One example is the mortgage industry; lending institutions like banks and mortgage brokers process hundreds of pages of borrower paperwork for every loan – a heavily manual process that adds thousands of dollars to the […]
AWS – Amazon Rekognition now detects Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers, head covers, and hand covers on persons in images
Amazon Rekognition is a deep-learning-based image and video analysis service that can identify objects, text, scenes, as well as support content moderation by detecting inappropriate content. Starting today, Amazon Rekognition can analyze images to detect if persons in the images are wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as face covers (face masks), hand covers (gloves), […]
AWS – Amazon QuickSight adds support for on-sheet filter controls
Amazon QuickSight now supports filter controls that you can place beside visuals on dashboards, allowing readers to quickly slice and dice data in the context of its visual representation. You can create these filter controls from existing or new filters with a single click, and configure them to support different operations, such as filtering specific dates, […]
AWS – AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now provides a catalog of all patches for Amazon Linux
AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager now makes it easier for you to create patch compliance reports by providing a catalog of all patches released for Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux 2. You can now view a list of all released patches for Amazon Linux and Amazon Linux 2 even if those patches are not applicable […]
AWS – Amazon EMR now provides up to 76% lower cost and 3.6X improved performance
Amazon EMR now supports Amazon EC2 M6g instances to deliver the best price performance for cloud workloads. Amazon EC2 M6g instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors that are custom designed by AWS utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores. The combination of EMR runtime for Apache Spark and EC2 M6g instances offer up to 76% lower […]
GCP – Exponential growth in DDoS attack volumes
Security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks disrupt businesses of all sizes, leading to outages, and worse, loss of user trust. These threats are a big reason why at Google we put a premium on service reliability that’s built on the foundation of a rugged network. To help ensure reliability, we’ve devised some innovative […]